What’s Happening?
Today: Beer Tasting from 6-8pm; Scrabble @ 7:00pm
Wednesday: Riichi Mahjong @ 2pm; D&D Encounters: Dead in Thay @ 6pm; Netrunner League @ 7pm.
Tim posting today: We usually talk about beer on Tuesdays, but I’m doing the typing and I’m too excited about some of the great new stuff we just got in from some indie RPG publishers, so I’m hijacking Facebook and Twitter!
(Yes, we’ll still be beer tasting tonight, so please come on by and help us help out the Lynnwood Food Bank. And have some beer.)
I have some re-stocks: Microscope is back in, as is The Quiet Year (which we’ll be playing on Story Game Night on July 13th), Shab-Al-Hiri Roach, and Noteboards, the pocket-sized battlemats.
But we got in Blood Red Sands, a game where Sword & Sorcery meets heavy-metal album covers and players compete to create scenes and characters. Here’s a bit from the back cover:
“Enter a savage and brutal world of dark sorcery, a world where the five Witch Kings of Abalahn slew the very gods and have reigned for a thousand years. Blood Red Sands is a game of competitive role-playing, where powerful heroes confront the terrible might of one of these the Witch Kings and their dark servants. ”
We also got How I Came to Live Here, a story game by Brennan Taylor that explores the myths and legends of the Native American people. You play characters that must negotiate between their own ambitions and desires, and the conflicting demands of their fellow villagers. Plus, there’s the threat of monsters and natural disasters. Will your ambitions lead you down the path of corruption?
And we got one that I ordered just as a whim, sight unseen. It’s called the Seattle Doomsday Map, and it’s a map of downtown Seattle, after the apocalypse. So there’s a cruise ship crashed into the waterfront, toppled buildings, and large expanses of wild vegetation. I comes with a guidebook and is pretty damned cool. There’s a link to more info in the comments.
Lastly, we FINALLY got in one of my absolute favorite games, Hillfolk, by Robin Laws. It’s been out since last fall, and the only reasons we haven’t had before now are stupid administrative ones from both me and the supplier, but it’s here now and that’s all that matters.
Hillfolk is the flagship setting for the DramaSystem, a semi-traditional RPG that tries to inspire the interpersonal conflict of our favorite TV dramas like House, Breaking Bad or the Sopranos. There’s also a supplement for it, Blood in the Snow, which is a collection of “series pitches” — settings and scenarios — for DramaSystem. Eventually we’ll get around to running a game of that around here.
