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The Way It Went Down (Delta Green Kickstarter reward) now available.

One of the rewards for the Delta Green Kickstarter was The Way It Went Down, which is a collection of 33 short-short stories by Dennis Detwiller written in the Delta Green Cthulhu Mythos universe. Three bucks, candy if you’re a Delta Green enthusiast like myself.  I personally got distracted by the book and have been steadily chewing away at it for the last hour or so; your own mileage may vary, but if you were in on the Delta Green Kickstarter I think that you’d be getting it for free anyway.

So check it out.

In the Mail: …Alas Vegas.

Well, put me in overshoes and call me a duck.

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I do not mean this as a criticism, although I wouldn’t blame James Wallis if he takes it as one: there was a part of me that was never actually expecting to see the Alas Vegas RPG adventure.  When it comes to Kickstarter fulfillments (to mangle Robert Anton Wilson), there are easy ones and hard ones and very hard ones and then there was that damned Alas Vegas Kickstarter.  Wallis had the absolute devil of a time getting this one to the publishers.  So much so that I lost any irritation that I might have had over the delay (I tend to be easygoing about that sort of thing anyway) and instead replaced it with a vast, terrible pity. Continue reading In the Mail: …Alas Vegas.

Quote of the Day, You Just Have To Laugh edition.

The Alas Vegas Kickstarter has been a thin slice of Hell for its creator. Remarkably so, in fact: I’m not a superstitious man, but I have to wonder whether the universe saw the description “an RPG of bad memories, bad luck & bad blood” and decided to take it as a challenge.  Anyway, the poor bastard running this has now discovered that his non-American hardcover books came back from the printer in clumps, so all of those had to be pulped; and the American softcovers (which is what I pledged for) all decided to go to Reno, and nobody knows why. Continue reading Quote of the Day, You Just Have To Laugh edition.

If you want to get @SJGames’ Conspiracy Theory, get in on the Kickstarter now.

Because Steve Jackson Games will not be putting Conspiracy Theory into distribution. It funded, and even hit stretch goals — but there apparently isn’t enough interest in it to justify a mass printing. So if you wanted it, you should probably hit Kickstarter within the next four hours.  It closes at 6 PM EDT today, so there’s still a window.

 

The 7th Sea: Khitai Kickstarter is live.

Basically, 7th Sea: Khitai is going to be China for 7th Sea  — and not Legend of the Five Rings, which is off doing its own revival somewhere else, I believe.  That was more Japanese, anyway.  This one looks very wuxia:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnwickpresents/7th-sea-khitai/

Which is good, because I like wuxia.  In other 7th Sea news: the proofs for its The New World supplement are out, and it would appear that they didn’t forget that I pledge drived for the ultimate birthday / anniversary / Christmas present for my wife. I can’t wait to see the picture that will be in the final version.

A week and a half to go on the Conspiracy Theory Kickstarter.

Conspiracy Theory, for those who don’t remember, is a card game from Steve Jackson Games about, well, conspiracy theories:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/conspiracy-theory/description

This sort of thing is more or less firmly within SJG’s wheelhouse, and I have high hopes for it.  Less than two weeks to go and still needs a couple more grand to fund, so if it sounds interesting, go ahead.  I plan to break this out with my regular gaming group…

The Dragonlock 3: Dangerous Lairs Kickstarter.

Friend of a friend is running this one: as you can guess, Dragonlock 3: Dangerous Lairs is the latest in a run of Kickstarters for 3D printing RPG/miniatures terrain.  …And my twenty year old self simply would not be able to understand why I don’t own a 3D printer.  It’s not the money, 20 Year Old Me; it’s not the money, although a couple of hundred bucks isn’t chicken feed.  It’s the household space/time ratio.  I’m not going to spend enough time at the 3D printer to justify the space it’d take up in the craft room*.

Anyway: check it out. It all looks really, really pretty.

Continue reading The Dragonlock 3: Dangerous Lairs Kickstarter.