Found here. Short version: GMs can deceive their players with no hard feelings. It’s just not that easy, or sometimes wise.
Tag: rpg
So… since they’re bringing back all the RPG lines anyway, which ones do you want back?
God bless crowdfunding, huh? – Because half the stuff that I played or read when I was a kid is getting updated or reprinted or whatnot. But only half; which is bad. And yet, good, because maybe it’ll get rejuvenated later. Personally, there are two games that I want to see come back, more than any other.
- The first is something called In Nomine, by Steve Jackson Games: angels and demons fighting it out on planet Earth, in pretty much any way that you can imagine. I loved the setting, and I can still think in it, if I take the time to. And I flatter myself that I had a reasonably interesting take on the game world.
- The other? 7th Sea, by Alderac Entertainment Group. You know how swashbuckler films go? Yeah, it’s like that. This is more playing-nostalgia than writing-nostalgia; I was in a couple of absolutely awesome campaigns there, and I wouldn’t mind AEG updating the game to the new edition.
What about you folks? Remember: many things are possible, now. Many, many things.
Hmm. GUMSHOE One-2-One RPG rules.
Well, THIS looks interesting:
In development: GUMSHOE One-2-One, an investigative RPG for one GM and one player. http://t.co/16khYo7G7a
— Pelgrane Press Ltd (@PelgranePress) September 10, 2015
…although I didn’t come to that conclusion until I saw this bit at the main page:
Can’t find an entire game group who can play when you can?
Want an intense head-to-head gaming experience?
Play face to face.
Or take advantage of its superb fit with virtual tabletops to play online.
Bolding mine. Yeah, that sounds like it’d be a handy tool to have. I look forward to seeing the published version.
Donna Edwards (D CAND, MD-SEN PRI) plots the conquest of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
As Virginia Virtucon notes: “Whoops.” Although, ironically? …It makes a certain amount of strategic sense, when you look at the map.
Continue reading Donna Edwards (D CAND, MD-SEN PRI) plots the conquest of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
In the Mail: the Atomic Robo Roleplaying Game.
…What? I did go back to bed. I apparently needed a three hour map.
Anyway, thanks to the magic of Amazon referrals (thanks!) I picked up the Atomic Robo Roleplaying Game. Action Science and funky d6 dice! Doesn’t get any better than that.
Moe Lane
PS: Also grabbed the Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons), but that’s more practical (my group is planning to run a campaign). The Atomic Robo’s for swank.
Woo-hoo! Feng Shui is coming back!
Atlas Games is going to do a reboot, in fact – which makes sense; the action movie genre has evolved since it first came out, not to mention history in general. And what is Feng Shui? Well, it’s a roleplaying game… that. Well. Let me put it this way:
If you have ever had a player-character drive through a convenient window while simultaneously driving a motorcycling and cross-firing two Uzis at various Scorpion Cult mooks, then turned your mid-air dismount from said motorcycle (which may or may not be on fire at this point) into a forward roll from which you erupt in a furious maelstrom of punches, kicks, and casual violations of the law of inertia, until everyone is on the ground except for that one guy in a white suit and a couple of butterfly swords complete with glowing kanji, and that’s when the techno music shifts to something more punchy… well, you were probably playing either Feng Shui or Hong Kong Action Theatre, so there was no need to explain any of that to you.
It’s a fun game.
There’s a game setting in this.
‘This’ being this map (original site here). That would make for a hardcore RPG.
Or perhaps that’s just the Sleep Madness talking.
Via Do-Gooder Press.
…So, yeah, this is a bad time to try to get back into the RPG writing field, right?
No: sequester or no, things aren’t grim. But prudent people plan and prepare. Although, admittedly, I’m not sure if I quite remember how to write gaming material anymore. The style is notably different.
ML Interview: John Tynes (Delta Green: Strange Authorities)
OK, background:
- John Tynes is the author of Delta Green: Strange Authorities, which is a compilation of John’s Delta Green-themed fiction for the last several years (the publisher is Arc Dream, which puts out a good deal of nice gaming material generally). He is also one of the Names involved with Delta Green generally.
- Delta Green (DG) is an extended supplement/setting/mutant, rugose appendage to the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game generally. DG combines Cthulhu Mythos cosmic horror with government conspiracy, and it is dearly loved for that.
- …I’m not going to explain the Cthulhu Mythos. Go read Cthulhu 101 if you don’t know what the Mythos is; in fact, go read it even if you do know what the Mythos is.
Seeing as I am a roleplaying game geek AND a Cthulhu Mythos fan AND a Delta Green enthusiast… as you can imagine, I was more than happy to interview John about the book, get his thoughts on What Delta Green and the Mythos Means To Us, and tease out a hint or two about the planned update of the game setting. Plus, some hard truths about the gaming industry! – Which believe me, I kind of already knew.
MP3 interview at the link below. I’d like to do more of these, I think: they’re kind of refreshing.
John Tynes Interview – 04/20/2012
Moe Lane
Just got my copy of the Laundry RPG…
…it’s very nifty. For those wondering: The Laundry is a roleplaying game based on the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross
Good times, good times.