Moe Lane

This is how it goes, people: they get to $700K on the OGRE Kickstarter, then SJG will start a Car Wars Kickstarter.

This I want, for two reasons:

1. I’ve been buying Car Wars since it came in little plastic boxes.
2. If they Kickstart Car Wars, maybe they’ll Kickstart… In Nomine.  Which was and is my single favorite roleplaying game setting of all time.  More than Castle Falkenstein, more than Unknown Armies, more than Feng Shui, more than Paranoia, and yes, more even than Delta Green. And it may take a Kickstarter to get a Second Edition.

So… well, three days to go on that, huh? I’m already in at the $100 level (not quite able to hit $150, but that’s just swank at this point), myself.

Going to be playing me some third-ed Nobilis.  Should be an interesting stretch of my roleplaying muscles, given that I am pretty much a power gamer who is nonetheless going to be behaving himself and not blow up the game.

Which reminds me… there may or may not be a pickup game at that con in Tampa that’s going on in August.  It’ll all depend on whether I get any interest*.  If there is one, it’s going to be something that I can run with a minimum of books: that means either 3rd edition GURPS or In Nomine, although I wouldn’t say no to a guest GM doing a political-themed topical Unknown Armies…

But NO LARPS.  I don’t want to get shot by the Secret Service.

Moe Lane

*Which there may be.  Every time I go to a multi-day political convention I invariably have somebody sidle up to me and admit sotto voice that yeah, they game.

On super-special pre-pre-order edition, mostly because I get the general impression that they could use the pre-pre-orders.  Well, that and the fact that a roleplaying game that features both classic spy paranoia and vampires is going to appeal to me on general principles.

Not a review copy, alas: I don’t have that kind of mojo in the gaming world, more’s the pity.  What I’ve read of it so far is spiffy, though.  Pelgrane Press’s stuff usually is.

It’s Ken Hite’s new roleplaying game setting, and it looks nifty.  Short version: you play a retiree from the Cold War’s Great Game who just found out that you were working for vampires.  Presumably, this bothers you.  Anyway, looks nifty, and Pelgrane Press takes Paypal (which simplifies international ordering immensely).  So I just, you know, now need to fill up Paypal somehow.

…when a piece does not gel.

Ach, well. Lemme change the subject: I feel like throwing some money at roleplaying game publisher Pelgrane Press. So… Esoterrorists, or Trail of Cthulhu? The first is ‘occult counter-ops trying to keep a lid on Magicians Behaving Badly;’ the second is Pulp-era Cthulhu Mythos adventuring. I have rather more of the latter than the former, if that helps.

There’s… a certain irony in these two Penny Arcade strips: I’m giving real thought to starting up a game next year.  It’s been a while and I need to exercise that part of my brain.

This is so totally on my Wish List now:

It’s the RPG for Charlie Stross’s brilliant espionage/Cthulhu Mythos Laundry Files series, and IT MUST BE MINE. If only for completeness’ sake.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHHAAAHAHYAHAAAHAHAAHAHAHA

:breathe:

HAHAHAAAHAAHAHAAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

Moe Lane

PS: What the heck. Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game: An Essential D&D Starter (4th Edition D&D) is the book of the week.

The video below should be useful material for any gamers out there trying to convince their GMs that, yea, indeed, their character with the peg-leg can do that ridiculously acrobatic thing after all:

Remember: your PC does have that high a level in his or her dexterity/coordination/agility stat, and he or she does have his or her dancing/acrobatics/tumbling skill maxed out. Or he or she should, at least, if you’re trying to justify tap dancing with a peg-leg to a GM.  The point is that your PC really is a beautiful and unique snowflake; that’s part of the point in playing a roleplaying game in the first place*.

Moe Lane

*For the non gamer geeks: this assertion is not… universally held.

On the perils of allowing yourself too much identification with NPCs:

It’s a dangerous game to love that which has stats and therefore can be killed.

Actually, that last panel of FFN has another good line, too.  It’s one of the better webcomics out there; a shame that it’s just once a week.

His apprentice has learned well.

Mind you, you should be nicer to players who aren’t breaking the game. Unless they’re into that; some are, oddly.

How did I miss this… oh, right, new baby.

Yeah, I should get back to more roleplaying geekery.  Heck, between the new kid and the slightly older one it’s been hard to even throw dice down recently.

Moe Lane

*For those wondering: In Nomine is a RPG that intersects angels, demons, and automatic weaponry.  It’s my favorite roleplaying setting in the whole wide world, and I really should start another campaign in it.