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Well, it was such a bargain.
The latest 'Bundle of Holding' is a collection of FATE games. Not my kind of games, you say? Well, you'd be right, FATE isn't really my bag, but I did want to check out Starblazer Adventures. I haven't had time to read all 600+ pages yet - don't hold your breath on a review, either - but there's a lot in there I quite like, and, predictably, quite a bit that I don't. I could actually see myself using Starblazer Adventures for a one-shot or two, but would most likely default to a 'simulationist' game such as Traveller for a 'proper' campaign. But for $15, or just less than a tenner in real money, you get Starblazer Adventures and a bunch of other FATE based games, and a slice of that money goes to War Child International and the Somaly Mam Foundation.
It is hard to take a picture of a .pdf file (I've not got the ink for a 600+ page book at the moment). So here's a photo of some source material resting on something or other.
I'm looking forward to us trying a SF RPG. For added SFishness I'll likely be in Oxford and playing via Facetime. The future is now...
ReplyDeleteUnmasked! Ho Lee I presume...
DeleteDavey, you need to recover the Crown of Kings (or die trying) first!
DeleteI checked out the Starblazers folks fantasy games Legends of Anglerre. I definitely thought it had some nice touches, but in the end I've never been a huge fan of FATE (it's the aspects I don't like, and the aspects are the core of FATE). I actually love FATE's parent game FUDGE.
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about the differences to comment, but I will likely write something, sooner or later, on the things that I like and dislike in what I read in (*play* is a different matter) Starblazer Adventures (and, perhaps, other FATE games, by extension).
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