Let's all go to the Fire Dances

[tracker7]

Yesterday, tegyrius and I headed off to Louisville for the Great Train Expo.  I was good, and didn't buy anything, but there were many, many locomotives to tempt me.  Several operating layouts were on display, including a good-sized LEGO setup, but my favorite was easily the monster modular layout that the Kentucky Society of N-Scalers presented.  At one point, to show the cool stuff you can do with N scale and a large modular layout, they had a coal train running that was close to 60 feet long.  Scaled up, that's better than a mile of train.

After the show, we wound our way to The Louisville Game Shop for a little while.  Good, as always, to see Colin, and throw some money his way.  I finally found a copy of World on Fire, and again exercised restraint by not buying two other books.

Now, it's time to work on some games.

Comments

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Likewise. There are plenty of fantasy systems out there, but a certain dearth of modern-day material that's not horror or supers.

D&D4E is still going to be the 900-pound gorilla, and for those who don't care for D&D but still want fantasy, there's GURPS, True20, Warhammer, and scads more.

There are better places for resources to be expended.

[xer0rules.livejournal.com]

Exactly. If I want to do something more modern, I have some sort of generic, which you've mentioned above, D20 Modern which I don't enjoy and Spycraft, which I think did the spy genre very, very well.

I really don't know why they're dropping everything to do FantasyCraft...

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Hubris, I guess.

As Tegyrius is fond of saying, this looks like a solution in search of a problem.

[xer0rules.livejournal.com]

Well, he'd be in a position to know.

[tegyrius]

I'm not in a position to know much about Crafty's operations, and kind of like it that way.

[xer0rules.livejournal.com]

No, not now, I know that and understand that. But you do have a history.