Books This week I read: The Dolmenwood Monster Book from Necrotic Gnome It’s a book of monsters, what more is there to say? Roleplaying Games The ALIEN Evolved Edition kickstarter arrived this week: The core rolebook, a GM screen, and a patch.The Halls of Arden Vul Pretty eventul session this week. Firstly, as this is the last session before Halloween (we play on Sundays) I called this the “Halloween Special” and said all the goblins were wearing carved pumpkins over their heads. But, p...| barrucadu's weeknotes
One thing I particularly liked—which may have been there before but I just didn’t notice—is in the rules for exploring a hex. I always found it a bit unsatisfying to give the players all the hidden features when they explored a hex, as that makes it hard to add new features (like a dungeon) to a hex that the players have already visited. And also a six mile hex of woodland is a huge area to search, finding everything there is to find in a few hours doesn’t seem reasonable. The book no...| barrucadu's weeknotes
Books This week I read: The Dolmenwood Player’s Book from Necrotic Gnome I ran a Dolmenwood campaign a few years ago and it was a lot of fun, but that was back before there was a Dolmenwood system, it was still OSE with some house rules and new classes. This is the first time I’ve really looked into the new (well, not so new, the draft version was released ages ago) system itself. I like it a lot, it’s very similar to OSE, just incorporating a lot of nice little tweaks from the previous...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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Books This week I read: The Anechoic Chamber a collection of short stories by Will Wiles Pretty good, I would say A Private Square of Sky was my favourite, but Meat Stream was definitely the most weird. A lot of people kind of went nuts during the pandemic, didn’t they… Volume 20 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Fuse Building on what I said when I read volume 19, the series has just got bad now. Very little actually happened in this volume, it’s almost entirely one long fig...| barrucadu's weeknotes
Work I took this week off. Books This week I read: Volume 3 of the Rozen Maiden anniversary edition by Peach-Pit We’ve now crossed the point where the anime adaptation diverges from the manga, though the remake addresses some of it. I remember the ending of the anime being fairly rushed and confusing so I’m interested to see where the manga goes. The Borderland from Mongoose Publishing Most of the Traveller setting books cover a whole sector, or at least a substantial portion of one, whic...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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Books This week I read: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson I’ve had my eye on this since reading Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad back in April. It’s a very different sort of story, but I enjoyed it a lot. It does refer to some of the things I was surprised weren’t in the Iliad, like the Trojan Horse and the death of Achilles; references to the lost epics that would have been common knowledge at the time of the Odyssey’s composition, I suppose. The poem repeatedly mentio...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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Books This week I read: The Deep and the Dark from Mongoose Publishing Reaver’s Deep is another fun frontier region with the Imperium, Solomani Confederation, and Aslan Hierate all being present, along with a variety of interstellar states. It’s a frontier powderkeg, much like the Trojan Reach (my preferred campaign locale) and the Spinward Marches (the traditional Traveller campaign setting)—it’s easy to see why these places are popular. Dark Nebula is almost entirely dominated by th...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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