I know that I haven't been posting much lately, but I'm still here.
I still plan to post a review of the potentially excellent, We Can Be Heroes superhero RPG, but I'm not there yet. I've been on a kick reading sci-fi rpg books and playing Final Fantasy. I picked up the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Bundle on Steam and have decided to work my way through all six games in the set. I just finished the first game and am currently working my way through the second.
These are the NES and SNES classics that defined an industry and I couldn't be happier with these updated releases. They are the games we remember with visual and audio makeovers that play great on modern PCs. Luckily that includes my ten year old laptop running Linux. (No problems so far playing the games using Proton.)
As for the mentioned, sci-fi rpg kick, I am reading through four different sci-fi rpg books at the moment:
- The Space 1999 RPG, that I preordered from Modiphius and just got my PDF.
- Dark Matter, that looks to be a superior take on space fantasy using 5E rules.
- Pulse Drive, which focuses on giving players narrative control. (I've had mixed results with these kinds of systems.)
- ... and Space Pulp which is pulp sci-fi adventure using the same system as Barbarians of Lemuria.
Probable most excited about Space Pulp and most uncertain about Pulse Drive. Space 1999 uses the 2d20 system and looks really solid, and Dark Matter is based on 5E which makes it potentially the easiest to table. So, reading all of these means that I have kind of pushed We Can Be Heroes to the back burner, but I will get to it.
On a personal note, I have misgivings about a lot of what's happening in our world today, and I have been avoiding Facebook. I plan to link this blog post to my group there this time, but I won't be doing that anymore.
I am probably shooting myself in the foot, but if you want to keep up with me in the future this blog will be the only place to do it.
Regards,
Jeff
