Regular readers will probably be tired of the sojourn into Model Railroads by now.
Whilst I have been playing Fat Controller, quite a bit has been going on in my roleplaying world.
Dragonmeet 2024
A couple of Saturdays ago I made my annual pilgrimage to Dragonmeet but this year was different for me as I had very little interest in what was new on the dealer floor. I literally went for the bring'n' buy and I returned with quite the haul.
The Low Life -
This is quite a weird pick for me and I don't know what possessed me... oh yeah it was the £10 price tag. The Low Life is a wholly unique post apocalyptic setting for Savage Worlds. Gazillions of years after hoomanity destroys itself in "The Wipe", what is left of life has evolved, devolved, mutated and discombobulated to wander the "Oith" in search of something. Archive it under very strange.
Paranoia - The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues
An impulse purchase (£15) of this reissued and reimagined version of the classic Paranoia scenario. I've been getting a lot of requests to run Paranoia at the club and it is one of those games that when it works it's amazing. The original version of this scenario was reviewed back in 1985 by Marcus L Rowland and he gave it a 7 out of 10 so I have high hopes.
Having read most of the first book this is definitely something I want to run in 2025.
Castles & Crusades - The Secret of Ronan Skerry
£4 for a scenario is the sort of money I want to be paying. Quite slim at 20 pages but it is an interesting sidetrek which could be used in any fantasy game. Castles & Crusades is one of the best value OSR games out there and the very Celtic world of Airdhe also fits quite easily in most Dark Age RPGs like Savage Worlds Hellfrost which is another great setting.
Among The Stars
This scifi engine building boardgame looked really interesting and as it came with 2 expansions I snapped it up for £19. I will report back if this ever gets played and what I think of it.
Colossal Arena
This has the three magic ingredients - Reiner Knizia design, Fantasy Flight publisher, Silverline game range. It's a 2-5 player betting game about fighting monsters in a Fantasy Arena. Sounds great and Knizia is a dab hand at the betting game mechanic (play RA, it's awesome) so I have high hopes that this will be a quick to play and fun game.
Wreck & Ruin
It's no secret that I am a fan of post apocalyptic car combat games like CarWars, Gaslands and Dark Future so could not pass up this kickstarter version of the boardgame for £25. I
regretted the decision every time I picked up my bag as this is chock full of stuff and weighs a ton.
I particularly like the Desertkin faction who have inexplicably tamed dinosaurs as their ride of choice in the irradiated wasteland. Looking forward to getting this on the table.
Dragons Keep Christmas Games Day & Party
Our last Games Day of the year and our Christmas Party is scheduled for today, I hopefully will get to play some more Dorf Romantik and we have a session of our current Cthulhu game - Masques of Nyarlathotep.
Other RPG Purchases
Golden Heroes - Queen Victoria & The Holy Grail
This scenario completes my collection and it is rumoured to be the best scenario for the Game. I have a lot of of love for this IP free supers game (check out my Time Travelling WWII superheroess plot line Project Daedalus) and whilst it rarely gets to make it to the table hopefully I can mine this supplement for inspiration.
Judge Dredd Block War
Another purchase which feeds my Judge Dredd addiction. I have been gettting a few requests to run a game of Dredd and I would love to integrate this into a game. Replicating the anarchy of a Block War is something I have struggled to implement in my games so I am hoping that this is a nice quick game which can be easily brought to the table for a group of 4/5 Judges to play collaboratively as perps for a change.
As I am writing this I am thinking that having a Block War as a decision node in a game is a really cool idea. Imagine having a plot where the outcome of a Block War determines the rest of the plot. Now that could be quite cool. I will have to put more energy into exploring that...
Mothership Deluxe Box
I don't actually have this in my hands yet, but I put down the funds on a pre-order from Zatu. I saw shiny new copies at Dragonmeet so hopefully this will not be too long of a wait. I played it at the club once and was really impressed with how well it played and it fits my criteria of rules lite no prep roleplay.
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