Unknown Armies was always one of those games I read about and was certainly curious about trying out to see what it’s like, alas I never seemed to find the right gaming group to play it with.
Now Atlas Games are working on a third edition of the game complete with some awesome stretch goals and the chance to obtain the older supplements as well.
For some reason this post was scheduled to appear last year but it appears to have been stuck in my queue after it missed the publishing date.
When I started gaming, I always wanted a gaming room of my own with; dice, miniatures and a library of gaming books all within easy reach of me and the players.
As technology progressed and after seeing the gaming room with an overhead LCD projector I wanted one so I could display maps and combats in much better 3d environment.
I have also done some gaming with Roll 20 and this is getting close to my idea of a perfect gaming environment. I have my battlemaps, books and custom macros to make things run that much smoother 🙂
I’m still a bit under the weather which means my creativity is in full flow again.
While I was watching some TV and trying to recuperate I had a flash of inspiration. One of the programmes I saw was Storage Wars and followed a group of people bidding on the contents of abandoned lockers and seeing what trash or treasure was inside.
This got me thinking, what if one of these lockers was a green box? A green box is a private storage repository established by operatives of Delta Green and could contain all manner of weird stuff.
Here’s a link to a random Green Box Generator: http://www.palinola.com/projects/lab/greenbox/
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One of my other guilty pleasures is the entertainment sport known as wrestling, I have dabbled in the past with wrestling games but they always seem to lack something; while mechanically sound the atmosphere is missing.
I bought the first season of this game a little while ago and I liked what I saw; a hack of Apocalypse world which captured the excitement of the old Saturday afternoon matches broadcast on ITV.
I’m certainly backing this one, but I’m disappointed that I’m going to miss out on having my likeness captured in the game art 🙂
It looks like I’ve been tempted by a lot of new Kickstarter projects lately and my success record of having the completed projects rewards is pretty good; I think only four that I have backed failed to bear fruit.
I’m always interested in settings that promise something different; you can find plenty of D&D clones floating around with cookie cutter fantasy settings but how many games set in old Brazil come to mind? This is the premise for Malandros: tales from the streets of old Rio.
The project has funded and only has a few days left before the funding period is over, so have a look and see if it’s worth four cups of coffee 🙂
This month the host is Scot Newbury of Dice and Dragons .
It’s been a few months since I wrote for the carnival and when October rolls around I seem to have a dozen or so ideas rattling around in my skull which is the perfect thing for this months carnival.
Picture the scene, a small 1950s town in California where things seem to be perfectly normal on the outside but beneath the town has a dark underside. The residents go about their daily lives blissfully unaware that in a few days a time traveller will appear that will set a chain of events in motion which if unchecked threaten to unravel the fabric of space and time firstly by killing the family and friends of this stranger; then slowly erasing the whole world from existence.
Our time traveller finds himself stranded in his new time, his time machine requires a specialised fuel to power it and that is something that is very hard to come by in the 1950s. If there is one thing in his favour is that when he landed he did so at the edge of town so his arrival goes largely unnoticed by the general population; the only contact he has is with a deranged farmer who was convinced he came from outer space to eat his brain.
Also, since he has travelled through time and not space he can blend in with only a few odd looks from the locals, his clothing is slightly different and made from an advanced fabric, he speaks in a strange slang which is unknown to the good people. Conversely there are things here that are alien to him; auto-mobiles are very low tech and all appear to be stick shift and not the automatic vehicles from his home time. People gather at the bandstand to listen to music being played, this structure has a very different use in his time; this is very much the era of live music, the theatre and going to school dance; even getting a simple shave or h.aircut can be entertaining with a quartet of barbers to hand.
After a chance encounter with a friend from his own time he is made aware that every interaction he has causes ripples that subtly alter the time-line around him; he has become like a butterfly flapping his wings here and a storm occurring over there. A second accidental encounter means he meets his own parents and must atone for the damage he has caused to their relationship or else the aforementioned doom will befall him.
All the while he wanders he has knowledge of what is to come, maybe not to all the residents of this sleepy town but there are a few important people here and there with an important part to play in the future of this town. So our poor traveller stuck in his past must tread a fine line or risk upsetting the cosmic apple cart.
Note.
When I wrote this I was going to reveal the identity of the traveller as it is based on someone but then I realised that it would spoil the set-up of the mysterious stranger and this would no longer be What Walks Into Town but Who Walks Into Town. So take what I have given you, change it if you will and use your own time traveller rather than mine.
I won’t stop you having a guess if you want in the comments below but even if you guess right; I won’t publicly acknowledge it.
Originally released as a softback book with a campaign supplement that followed soon after Delta Green for me combined two elements I really love; the Cthlhu mythos and the conspiracy genre. Where games like Dark Conspiracy and Conspiracy X both shine in their own niches, only Delta Green brought the mythos bang up to date. It is a very different beast than Cthulhu Now which was the official modern day sourcebook for CoC and it taps into the idea that aliens have visited Earth using spaceships.
Now they are releasing a stand alone game which builds upon the work that has gone beforehand and it really does stand on the shoulders of giants. There are various pledge levels available, enough to suit each persons pocket.
Since I first dipped my toes into the waters of superhero gaming I’ve loved the idea of playing someone with special powers.
I did compile a list of games that I was aware of at the time that were still available to purchase and you can find the list by following this link.
There have been a few more to appear, the Valiant RPG being one of them, this still fails to knock my favourite game off the top spot; BASH. I blogged about this game in my top 10 and you can find the original article here.
Once I get my act together, I’ll have another superhero round-up and have another poll to see what your favourite game is and this time I’ll be sure to include Supers RED 🙂
When I first started gaming and I had an almost unquenchable thirst for gaming I would think nothing of gaming for seven nights a week but even that wasn’t long enough for me as occasionally we’d game Saturday and into Sunday or Sunday into a bank holiday Monday. One time we even played right into the new year so we could all wish ourselves a happy new year!
Looking back on it now, I realise it may have been a mistake to try and play longer and longer without much rest, I recall arguments over trivial things when we were all sleep deprived. Stupid things like can someone with super-leaping drop down a height they can leap?
I know, daft things that seemed really important at the time.
These days I tend to game responsibly and try to not game for too long as I don’t appear to have the endurance for it these days. Call of Cthulhu isn’t much fun when you’re unable to process the clues but tend to connect you to the great green giant itself 🙂