Need Something More
Aug. 13th, 2024 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7I'm slowly making my way through the pile of gaming books - print and digital - I acquired in the weeks leading up to and including GenCon, and have finally made some progress on a novel I started reading about the time I ended my exile.
God's Teeth, for Delta Green, is a stellar set of operations spanning 20 years. Even as DG scenarios go, this one is dark as fuck. It does a lot with the idea of leaving the most horrific stuff up to the reader, to good effect. You know better than someone else what'll get under your skin and into your head, after all.
Symbaroum Adventure Collection 4 is alright. I kind of raced through it, as I have no real expectation of ever running either adventure. Still, it's a Free League product, so the writing is good enough to enjoy on its own.
Got a PDF copy of The Morrow Project 4th Edition on the cheap - probably a DTRPG Deal of the Day. This is sure a product of its time. I like rules-heavy systems with plenty of minutiae - heck, I could probably run a Spycraft 2 game on short notice - but I really don't need a couple of charts to determine the wind chill factor and its damage to a character. And let's not even go into the hit locations and damage multipliers and all that. The idea of the game is in my wheelhouse, though, and I could do something with it using a system that doesn't suck the enjoyment out of the room.
Augmented Reality is a darn good system- and setting-agnostic book full of tables for detailing a cyberpunk city. Buildings, people, events, lots of good stuff. I've already started using it in my CP Red game - as much as I like the Donjon, this looks like a much better resource.
Not sure what'll be next. There's the rest of Symbaroum's huge published campaign. A collection of DG operations, one of which I ran for the Somerset store group. The DCC Day stuff. The Cyberpunk Edgerunners box. Outgunned. The Numenera starter box. It's an embarrassment of riches.
Oh, the book! Cahokia Jazz. Pretty darn good detective story in an alternate America where the Native nations held onto power and Cahokia takes the place of St. Louis as one of the Midwest's capitals.
Yesterday was my six-month mark at work. I haven't yet applied for a different position, but I'm making a small list.
God's Teeth, for Delta Green, is a stellar set of operations spanning 20 years. Even as DG scenarios go, this one is dark as fuck. It does a lot with the idea of leaving the most horrific stuff up to the reader, to good effect. You know better than someone else what'll get under your skin and into your head, after all.
Symbaroum Adventure Collection 4 is alright. I kind of raced through it, as I have no real expectation of ever running either adventure. Still, it's a Free League product, so the writing is good enough to enjoy on its own.
Got a PDF copy of The Morrow Project 4th Edition on the cheap - probably a DTRPG Deal of the Day. This is sure a product of its time. I like rules-heavy systems with plenty of minutiae - heck, I could probably run a Spycraft 2 game on short notice - but I really don't need a couple of charts to determine the wind chill factor and its damage to a character. And let's not even go into the hit locations and damage multipliers and all that. The idea of the game is in my wheelhouse, though, and I could do something with it using a system that doesn't suck the enjoyment out of the room.
Augmented Reality is a darn good system- and setting-agnostic book full of tables for detailing a cyberpunk city. Buildings, people, events, lots of good stuff. I've already started using it in my CP Red game - as much as I like the Donjon, this looks like a much better resource.
Not sure what'll be next. There's the rest of Symbaroum's huge published campaign. A collection of DG operations, one of which I ran for the Somerset store group. The DCC Day stuff. The Cyberpunk Edgerunners box. Outgunned. The Numenera starter box. It's an embarrassment of riches.
Oh, the book! Cahokia Jazz. Pretty darn good detective story in an alternate America where the Native nations held onto power and Cahokia takes the place of St. Louis as one of the Midwest's capitals.
Yesterday was my six-month mark at work. I haven't yet applied for a different position, but I'm making a small list.