Ninchilla

Ooh, cool - will check it out, thanks!

Publish!
We fulfilled our little kickstarter! Embers of Humanity is now out. It feels pretty great to have actually made a thing.

Congrats!

Read
Modiphius have had a big warehouse clearance sale on Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (among other things), where I picked up £275 worth of stuff for £40 (plus shipping), so I've been reading that. I like the universe, and it's got an interesting mix of personal (Agent) gameplay with House-level (Architect) shenanigans, though combat - specifically duelling - is a bit of a confusing slog. I think I can steal enough bits of Dishonored 2D20 to make it work for me, though.

I'll need to re-familiarise myself with Alien in the next month or so, since I've been volunteered to run a one-shot around Hallowe'en. Most of the group have already played Hope's Last Day, and the other adventures I have are mostly too long to fit in a single session, but there was a one-shot stretch goal as part of the Evolved Edition Kickstarter, so I'll look into that. Alternatively, I could try to write something, but I'm not sure I'll have the time.

Play
I'm getting real fed up of Princes of the Apocalypse. It's a great group, but the module is a complete slog, and I'm not really enjoying it at all. We did just finally scrape our way to level 6, so hopefully it'll be a bit less of a meat grinder from here…

GM
The One Ring: The Company are heading south, finally responding to an invitation they received some time ago to meet a nice Wizard at Isengard - though they're planning to stop off at a remote Dwarf-hall and a cursed forest on the way, because of course they are. It'll give me an opportunity to drop more temptations to explore Moria, though, and maybe even trigger another Bout of Madness for at least one character!

My occasional Vaesen group continue to almost immediately identify the correct suspect in every Mystery. I'm going to have to start accelerating the countdowns in order to make things more difficult.

I think I still have a few months left on a 1-year game card I redeemed a little while back…

Not 100% complete yet, but we rolled credits on Big Walk tonight! Absolute masterpiece of a finale, and surprisingly affecting right at the end. Undisputed GOTY for me.

Play
The Big Walk continues! It's so good, but remains quite hard to describe in a way that really captures it. Last night, for example, we spent a long time collecting buttons from hidden spots around the landscape, then wandered into a tunnel and found a hidden underground disco room.

On a whim, we also started a run on Return to Moria. Not entirely sure on it yet, but I'm in a big co-op headspace at the moment, and it's doing double-duty scratching a Lord of the Rings itch, too. We're still very much in tutorial phase, I think - it's been pretty low-stakes so far, and we've only had to fight orcs once yet. Sarah has ambitions of restoring and/or remodelling the entire of Khazad-dûm, but I suspect that might be beyond the game's scope…

Overwatch.

Want
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 remains top of The List, even though (I think) I still have a couple of missions left in the original. I'll have to see if I can scare up a last hurrah to get those done while waiting for a discount on the new one.

Not much on my radar besides; I watched (most of) Sony's State of Play thing the other night and came away fairly underwhelmed. I saw someone, somewhere gushing over Rhapsody in Scarlet, but it looks like a HD remaster of a Vita game to me. The only thing that piqued any interest at all as Hunter's Moon, which is sort of a folk-horror Sir, You Are Being Hunted by way of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Bin
I continue to be astonished that It hasn't happened yet.