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Here's a pic of my Indie RPG game shelf (#GameShelfie?) I discovered there was more to RPGs than the traditional games of my youth in the fall of 2015 when a game of Fiasco blew the top of my head off. In the last year and a half, I have been trying like mad to catch up with what has been going on in the last dozen years or so. I was playing MTG regularly, but last year I didn't buy a single card and instead channeled that budget over to this new/old hobby, and I couldn't be happier to have done so. 
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Just played my first game of +Evan Rowland's Noirlandia with my wife +Ann D and our friend Phil! We created a city corrupted by technology that we absolutely fell in love with, and then proceeded to roll and flip cards with the worst luck. All of our leads ended up in a single district, which meant that after the first scene, when two black 6s were thrown, we had two escalated districts. On the third scene, the third district was escalated and the game was over. Boom. We unearthed 3 leads and made one connection before our intrepid investigators' journey came to an end. Even with that rough luck, we were all really satisfied with the story we were able to tell by the end of our epilogues, which tells you how strong the game is. It's a smartly designed game, and after the first scene, we had the hang of how the challenge and investigation rolls went and could move the narrative along smoothly. We are all excited to play again in the near future and hopefully find an answer or two to the murder before the city explodes into corruption!  The holiday gifts keep coming! One of my clients knows that I'm an avid reader, and she was incredibly generous with a Half-Price Books gift card for Christmas. And guess what I found in their online store: an unmarked Dogs in the Vineyard! What?! After the gift card, I was paying for just a bit more than shipping. Then I used a gift card from my mother to get a physical copy of Tremulus. I'm a big fan of Lovecraftian stories, and while I know this book has not gotten a tremendous amount of love, I'm very excited to read it and run it for myself. Now I just need to find someone to pay me to read and play RPGs.   Got a DTRPG gift card for my birthday and I decided to get some physical copies. I went a little hogwild on the RPG front with any financial gifts over the holiday, so you'll be seeing a ridiculous number of these posts. Then I will spend the next 2 years reading and playing ALL THE RPGS!   I had been hearing about Shock: since I discovered Indie RPGs about a year or so ago, but of course it was out of print, so I didn't think I'd get a chance to get a physical copy--then lo and behold! +Joshua A.C. Newman made it available a month or so ago and I jumped at the chance. Now I'm excited to bring it to my gaming group! For those interested, there are still 12 copies (as I write this) available: https://glyphpress.com/talk/product/shock-social-science-fiction  |
Jason D'AngeloRPG enthusiast interested in theory and indie publications. Archives
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