I love Saturdays. I still get the same rush from going to a game/comic shop as I did as a giddy spotty teenager.
Leisure Games have handed over Cthulhutech for coins.
I’m very unsure of my ground with Anime but if I’m going to have a Mecha game it might as well include tentacular action. Review to follow. Maybe.
me me me.. how many coins? I want it, it makes no sense but I want it, tell me all, is it lovely, is the book warped, is it beautiful, how does it play, does it leap out and say “yes”
Nope, it’s not physically warped. Was there some kind of issue with this?
Cost me £30. Ouch, but that’s how much I expect to pay for full colour hardbacks these days.
Yes, it’s very beautiful. The art stays ‘serious’ which is the correct tone to strike for a horror game, even if it’s got giant robots in it! the layout is lovely, as good as I’ve seen.
As for how it plays, it looks very, very trad. And I don’t see that as a bad thing. i’m getting inspired reading through it, so I’m hopeful it won’t just be another ‘read the intro, look at the character sheet, put on shelf’!
System of a Down
How’s the system?
It looks nice, so its one of those things I might get to put on my shelf, but all the copies I’ve seen so far have been wonky donkey.
Re: System of a Down
Early days yet but here’s the dice mechanic:
You keep your stat as a base number and your skill level tells you how many dice to roll. Target numbers are what you’d expect.
This I like.
Pools of D10. Rolling high is best. You read the dice in the best of three ways. Highest single result. Highest sum of matches. Highest sum of a straight if 3 dice or more. A bit like poker.
This I also like.
Drama Dice give you extra, well, dice. You can have these before AND after the roll, which is cute.
It’s pretty clean so far. A country mile better than BRP.