Some Stuffs I Bought at GC
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thebitterguyMy two big purchases at GC were Damnation Decade and Helios Rising. Big is literal in the case of that second book. 540 pages.
Damnation Decade is a d20 Modern supplement based around roleplaying in the world of dystopian SF films of the '70s, or at least the world that leads to those worlds. It's nearly perfect (the cybernetics rules? Called "Bionics". Schwing!) except for it fails the Justin Test. What is that test? Have something going on north of the 49th Parallel.
I mean, not only does it ignore it, it actually says that the melting of the ice caps caused all of Canada to turn into a large marshland. The Fuck?
Okay, yes, hard to have a dystopia when there's Canada, right? We always go and fuck things up by being 'a good place'. But what a cop-out.
Feh. Other than that (Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?) the book is very good.
Helios Rising is a Dawning Star sourcebook (the third release, although it was scheduled for later in the series). I've yet to penetrate very deep into, but since I liked Operation Quick Launch so much, it should be good.
Also got Operation Dead Drop, which showed how Otherworlds Creations killed d20 Modern.
Damnation Decade is a d20 Modern supplement based around roleplaying in the world of dystopian SF films of the '70s, or at least the world that leads to those worlds. It's nearly perfect (the cybernetics rules? Called "Bionics". Schwing!) except for it fails the Justin Test. What is that test? Have something going on north of the 49th Parallel.
I mean, not only does it ignore it, it actually says that the melting of the ice caps caused all of Canada to turn into a large marshland. The Fuck?
Okay, yes, hard to have a dystopia when there's Canada, right? We always go and fuck things up by being 'a good place'. But what a cop-out.
Feh. Other than that (Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?) the book is very good.
Helios Rising is a Dawning Star sourcebook (the third release, although it was scheduled for later in the series). I've yet to penetrate very deep into, but since I liked Operation Quick Launch so much, it should be good.
Also got Operation Dead Drop, which showed how Otherworlds Creations killed d20 Modern.
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Date: 2006-08-16 02:13 pm (UTC)The writing is confusing, one of the combat examples is wrong.
For "small package RPGs" HARP does it much better.
On first glance Qin is pretty good. It's the middle of my reading queue, so I haven't had a chance to give it the more detailed go over. In fact I won't get a chance to read it until September, due to military training for the next week and a half.
Doug.