Tag: reign

In the Mail: REIGN.

Finally. I know this is going to sound weird – and it’s certainly not Atomic Overmind’s fault – but the USPS hijacked my copy of REIGN for an entire month and used it to play a bizarre game of Pong between Minnesota and Texas. I have no idea why. The address was fine. AO reused it when sending out the book again, no problem.

Ach, well. At least it’s here now.

PS: “At long last, Greg Stolze’s game of Lords and Leaders returns! Reign: Rules and Reign: Realms together form the second edition of this One Role Engine-powered fantasy game in which your characters can can defend and bring prosperity to threatened lands–or, if you prefer, conquer and pillage on a vast and awesome scale.” In case you were wondering.

Apparently, my Kickstarter rewards for REIGN have been bouncing between TX and MN for the last month.

The traveling history is fascinating, in its way. St. Paul, MN keeps sending the package to Leander, TX, and Leander keeps sending it right back. This isn’t Atomic Overmind’s fault, mind you – but it very well may be Shipstation’s. Certainly I’m noting this for the future.

Atomic Overmind is bringing the Reign.

I’ve seen Reign referenced* in other game lines — mostly the ones that use Godlike’s One Roll Engine — but have never actually played it.  Greg Stolze’s a good get for Atomic Overmind, though; dude’s got a solid roleplaying game designer rep. Having him do a second edition will likely work out in both side’s favor.  I look forward to seeing the result.

Moe Lane

*It appears to be a game that takes special care to map out how large groups and countries would interact with each other in a RPG setting — and how to have players game that sort of thing out.  Kind of high concept, in other words. The sort of thing that normally GMs do for their players, in campaigns where the PCs don’t want to get into the nitty-gritty of that themselves.