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 05:49 pm (UTC)Me rambling: I don't remember who posted the idea first, but I think one of the neatest ideas for using the Blaxploitation genre had to be Call of Cthulhu: Harlem '72.
First, it gives you some of the noir hooks ... for instance in noir and in early 70s Harlem many men are veterans of a "great war" and are suitably disenfranchised with the system. The Man, if you will.
Second, and unlike most CoC games -- the thing you're saving isn't vast and barely comprehensible like the world or mankind. It's your neighbourhood. Your street.
Third. The Man is definitely trying to put you down. For the count. Their evil goes way beyond rent control. The Man is playing for your Soul, and baby, if you don't got Soul, what do you got?
I've never done anything with it, but it's always been bubbling away in the crock-pot I call my brain.
Doug.