CaptAdventure wrote:

Anyway, hope folks are keeping well and getting in some good S&S gaming too.

My wife and I are still running some BoL.   Taking a break from our long running Hyborian Age "Hammer of Æs" campaign and playing a BoL Warhammer Fantasy game.

Also have been checking out the Shadowdark RPG, running some one-shots and going to run some side-by-side adventures using BoL and Shadowdark, to see how they compare vs each other.

Have some Savage Worlds Beasts and Barbarians adventures to run with BoL too.  We did run the Tower of the Elephant a while back in Jalizar, it was fun.  My GM/PC died during the battle with the Mage Yara!  (Not the same ending as the Conan story at all )

Have a Warhammer Adventure using BoL tonight.  Got the counters and maps ready.
 

Alison and I have still run 1GM-1Player ‘duets’ for one another, but things have taken a slight slide with watching the cricket test matches between England and India (very good series this one) and also the womens’ Euros (football/soccer European competition) on tv. That sort of eats up time for both writing and playing games, so our one game a week schedule had been disrupted of late.
 
However, Alison has run some superb Everywhen 1920s spy games for my PC, Reggie Fairfax. Reggie has had a long trip up and down the Nile, before a final confrontation with a British traitor selling secrets for money (a French wife half your age is apparently terribly expensive). Then feeling like some leave was due, Reggie and fellow agent Sheila took the long way home via the Orient Express in Istanbul. Or at least that was the intention – but they ran into an OGPU agent in Istanbul – codename Aurore - whose operation in France the pair had wrecked beyond repair. This lovely but dangerous spy had been recalled to Moscow, but she had decided to flee her masters instead – they don’t forgive failure.
 
Offering to trade information if Reggie and Sheila would get her safely to London, the three took ship to Jerusalem (currently British run) but first had to kill three Soviet agents intent on kidnapping Aurore and returning her to Moscow. After a few days sailing Aurore seduced two sailors on the ship and got them to convey her to Crete by stealing a ship’s launch. The ship’s captain was even more annoyed than Reggie and he altered course to Cyprus (another British run territory) where he dumped the agents off the ship.
 
Then an acquaintance made on the voyage gave a lead to some Greek nationalists who were about to stage a bombing campaign on the island. So British Military Intelligence forced Reggie and Sheila to pursue the lead and catch the bombers – if the pair wanted any official help getting back home. This investigation resulted in a literally explosive finish and Reggie was perhaps merciless in his actions (in fact he made early Connery-era Bond look a bit soft).
 
All Reggie and Sheila want to do is get back home to Paris, where both are based, and it seems they are taking a very long route from Cairo! The next game is being played tomorrow. The pair are taking a ship from Cyprus to Athens, to pick up a branch line of the Orient Express that should get them home to Paris with just one change of Orient Express trains.
 
I bet something goes wrong!

Glad to hear that folks are still getting in their game time or prepping for new stuff!