Read
Cy Borg - I played this for the first time last week and decided to read the book after that since I've had it on my shelf for a year. There's not much to read honestly. Some brief rules, a sketch of a setting and a lot of very random tables. The art is in-your-face and it might be the loudest book I own, but I'm not sure I like it.
Kosmosaurs - Actually this is quite loud in the art department too. It's more of an indie comic vibe though. I thought it was a forged in the Dark RPG but on reading it I realised it's actually a hack of Lasers & Feelings. Your space dino's stats are Kosmo (space, science, brains) and Saur (planet, punching, muscles). It's fine but again, lots of random tables instead of much actual detail.
Deathmatch Island - I'm really keen to run this one, despite the fact that it is mar more structured than I usually enjoy. The framing as a reality show kind of make the storygame restrictions make sense though. The book really sells the vibe too.
Coriolis the Great Dark - I'm going up t omy parents at the weekend, I'm hoping I'll have time to really dig into The Flowers of Algorab campaign while I'm there.
Play
Cy Borg - We had fun with this despite failing basically every roll we made. The frequent random tables and the extreme results provided did make me wonder how anyone gets through a day in that world. It reminded me of the more ridiculous Judge Dredd strips.
Run
I've recently run a couple of sessions of our own RPG Embers of Humanity which you might have seen me talking about on Bsky. The sessions went really well. I'm pleased with what we've made.
Reach of the Roach God is still ongoing. I think 27 sessions now. We are headed into the endgame, still a bunch to do but the ending is basically accelerating towards the players.
Read
A lot of Dragonbane - the final(ish) PDFs of the upcoming Book of Magic and Arkand setting book, mostly, but I'm also prepping to finally run The Magistrate's Gambit (thanks again, Bri!) next week.
Also a little bit of Outgunned/Outgunned Adventure, as I continue to find something that I think will suit the kids' Wookiee Jedi ambitions for a Star Wars session…
Play
D&D 5e continues to be the only action on the outside of the GM screen, as we continue Rogueliking our way through Princes of the Apocalypse. The DM is running it very much as a sandbox with no guide rails, so we can stumble onto stuff that's completely beyond our ability to deal with; everyone's on at least their third character, but I have plenty more weirdos in the chamber to deploy as things progress (or don't).
GM
The One Ring continues, with a big Council due next session as the Company try to convince some dwarves to help them besiege an orcish stronghold near Angmar. This is complicated by some aggression from elves on the other side of the Ered Luin, who are accusing the dwarves of being in league with the orcs. We'll see how it goes!
I have an occasional Vaesen group that I've sort of accidentally assembled. We've run two mysteries so far (just prepublished ones, though I have the bones of a couple of my own sketched out). Don't know that it's a "campaign", as such, but everyone's having fun, and I've convinced them to try out some other games, too - starting with the aforementioned Dragonbane adventure!
I've finally managed to run a couple more sessions with The Natura1s, though we've had to shift online to cope with the travel and scheduling issues that have dogged us for like, a year. It's going pretty well, I think, and in a weird twist, playing over Discord seems to be helping to keep people focused..? It's really good to be back at it - I just need to find some time for editing.
