A Russian witch will mess you up.
A Russian witch will mess you up. I’m working on a supplement! It will first appear as a stretch goal for the Gauntlet Kickstarter (happening now)…it is all about religion and folk magic, two things no self-respecting Soviet airwoman has any time for. I think it will make the game awful in a totally new way.
“Just set it up like a tombstone, comrade. Maybe they will get the message.”
“Just set it up like a tombstone, comrade. Maybe they will get the message.”
A JU87, somewhere in Russia.
Painting by Tatyana Glebova. Leningrad, 1948
Painting by Tatyana Glebova. Leningrad, 1948
“The layout of a modern combat reconnaissance aircraft”, illustrating a Polikarpov RZ I think, mid-thirties.
“The layout of a modern combat reconnaissance aircraft”, illustrating a Polikarpov RZ I think, mid-thirties. Obsolete when it entered service, but not as obsolete as the Po-2/U-2 our women fly.
NKVD surveillance photo of the #dreamation2018 “wide con” 4-table simultaneous run of Night Witches.
NKVD surveillance photo of the #dreamation2018 “wide con” 4-table simultaneous run of Night Witches. The forces of reaction were driven back to their rat holes in Berlin.
Hey friends
Hey friends,
Sorry to spam the many of you not going to Dreamation, but:
I’d like to run a Night Witches wide con (4 hours, 4 tables, many, many bombing missions) at Dreamation and would love to find some interested co-GMs. If that is you please step forward, tovarisch.
When we did this at Big Bad Con it was a lot of fun.
I created 25 characters for our Big Bad Con event – 4 simultaneous tables – a complete squadron.
I created 25 characters for our Big Bad Con event – 4 simultaneous tables – a complete squadron. We’ll assemble all the materials for running a “wide con” of the game and share them later.
I’m reading Svetlana Alexievich’s astonishing oral history of Soviet women who fought in the Great Patriotic War and…
I’m reading Svetlana Alexievich’s astonishing oral history of Soviet women who fought in the Great Patriotic War and it is making me reconsider so many things about Night Witches. Here’s a sort of coda move for you:
The first time someone denies your lived experience after the war, roll minus medals.
On a 10+ you smile and nod your head and everything is fine.
On a 7-9 everything is fine, but choose one:
You minimize your accomplishments.
You play up the accomplishments of a male relative.
You change the subject to something other than the War.
On a miss you let them have it with the full force of a natural-born Soviet airwoman. Choose one and the GM chooses one:
You’ll never work in aviation again.
You’ll never have a position of authority again.
Your friends and family freeze you out.
Your neighbors view you with pity or suspicion or both.
Whatever the outcome, that’s how it is going to be for the next thirty years.
If you want Night Witches in Russian, the PDF is now available!
If you want Night Witches in Russian, the PDF is now available!
The Korean translation is looking really sharp! Thanks to Sungil Kim and his team.
The Korean translation is looking really sharp! Thanks to Sungil Kim and his team.