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.
This is so totally on my Wish List now:
It’s the RPG for Charlie Stross’s brilliant espionage/Cthulhu Mythos Laundry Files
HAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHHAAAHAHYAHAAAHAHAAHAHAHA
:breathe:
HAHAHAAAHAAHAHAAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA
:pause:
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
Accurate enough, as far as it goes: but I don’t think that it got any more than the gist of this sort of gameplay…
Oh, wait: that was the condensed version.
Yes. Yes, this is much more accurate.
There are apparently two R. Borgstroms in the gaming world: there’s Rebecca Borgstrom, who wrote Nobilis
…$150? Excuse me while I get my copy out of the reach of children and into an inert nitrogen atmosphere.
…and then there’s Rolfe Borgstrom, who got mentioned in this article about gaming out Land of the Lost. The main site (Transitive Property of Gaming) looks interesting, too. As for the article… true enough, as far as it goes; but you should also try GURPS Dinosaurs
What? No, actually, I know plenty of women who game. My wife’s a GM, in fact. Why do you ask?
Moe Lane
*Which I personally feel would be just crying out for a d20
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