If I ran an SF RPG these days, it’s very likely I would use the Silhouette rules to do it. The rules were pretty influential on Blade & Crown. I really like the “roll multiple D6, keep the highest, get … Continue reading
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Friday, I got to the Con late as usual. I was hoping to get there in mid-afternoon, but several minor crises meant the first game I could actually play started at 6pm. Even more unfortunate, John had had to cancel … Continue reading
Another of my treasures from that Taiwan trip was the three volumes of 三体 The Three-Body Problem, by 刘慈欣 Liu Cixin. In the small amount of time I had to look, I tried a couple of Mainland import bookstores, but … Continue reading
And Convergence 2015 is already here. I managed to only get onto two panels: Dystopia of Philip K. Dick: From Page to Screen We’ve probably all seen his stories on screen without necessarily knowing it. From Blade Runner to Total … Continue reading
This one was apparently opposite some very popular panels; the audience was rather small. It was therefore a missed opportunity to spread enjoyment of the amazing stuff Iain Banks wrote. But the audience was also composed mostly of people who … Continue reading
As so often seems to be the case, with all of Con of the North written up, I already have another con coming. Minicon 50 is this weekend. This isn’t the 50th anniversary of Minicon, because in early years the … Continue reading
Unfortunately, after that disappointing HârnMaster game, this was disappointing, too. I’ve raved about Artemis plenty of times here before. I still think it’s a completely new kind of game, one that we’re still just beginning to explore. And I still … Continue reading
Some of the published Traveller games from the 80s include a mini-game where the PCs must navigate a government bureaucracy. For example, one of the two sample adventures in the Traveller Book, called “Exit Visa”, is a bureaucracy navigation scenario. … Continue reading
I’ve mentioned Star Traders here before, but it’s high time to do a fuller review. First, the name: The game I’m discussing is Star Traders. Not Star Trader, the insert game from Ares magazine #12. Neither is it Space Trader, … Continue reading
I’ve played Artemis a few times now. It is, as I’ve said, a pretty revolutionary concept. It’s not quite an RPG, not quite a LAN game, not quite a LARP… Artemis is pretty much its own genre. In my head, … Continue reading