19th Level

Continuing the occasional series of shiny stuff that is capable of distracting me... The fortunate thing is there's a new edition of Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea  that just came out. It's good when the shiny is actually what you are currently playing - and that it's backwards compatible. We're going to be down to just three of us for a few games in late-September early-October so we might be doing a standalone adventure/two-parter. I've been giving some serious consideration to Cthulhu Dark  as I'm curious how we'll find the extremely lean rules system. I've been doing a lot of espionage viewing and reading over the past month or so. It's resulted in me flipping through Top Secret  a lot - though I am finding the hand to hand combat rules a bit tough on the brain. I've also been thinking about Cthulhu and company in such a setting. There's a bunch of games and/or supplements designed just for that... I've ...

The good news is I'm still giving thought to the current Fate Accelerated Star Wars game. May 4th is close and it'd be a massive shame to not be playing Star Wars close to it. I'm thinking of ways to tie into Rogue One , perhaps having the characters be meeting with Bail Organa as he readies Alderaan for war, only to find themselves on the run from a space station the size of a small moon... To be honest, I've still a number of ideas and there's a request for some space battles in the game (which I've shied away from thus far). We did take a break for this week's session - having just come back from Disney World there was no way I'd be prepped so a member of the group ran a session of No Country For Old Kobolds . I'm pleased to say my first Kobold, LeFou Gaston, died a heroic death, killing two flying turtles after being launched from a giant spork (alas he and the second flying turtle mainly died from falling...) I've been digesting  D...