Brian Bloodaxe

I never did play The Witcher 3. It pops up on my wishlist for £7 all the time though.

It's Conpulsion in Edinburgh this weekend. I'm looking forward to it, although as cons go it's pretty low-key. Anyone else close enough to make the trip? I know @luscan is often there.

As it happens I'm heading up to my parents' for the weekend so I chucked my 3ds in my bag.

I remember a Nintendo exec talking about the first Mario movie saying, "We want to make this film because it will be good for the Mario brand."

I didn't bother watching it.

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.