Salute

[ffutures]

The Salute wargames con was OK - felt a little less vibrant than last year, not quite sure why. I did think that there didn't seem to be as many easy-access participation games as usual, but that may have been my imagination. I did play a couple of scenarios - one, Gruntz, was a sort of space marine thing which I narrowly won, the other was a short 7TV scenario - the game I loved last year, which is loosely based on 1960s-70s TV - which was great fun but a disaster for me from beginning to end, and involved the annihilation of my entire team of adventurers. I can't blame anyone but myself, some very uncooperative dice were also a factor but it was mostly my own fault for completely buggering up the tactics.

Purchases were the Laundry RPG (based on the novels by C. Stross of this parish) and its scenario book Black Bag Jobs, the latest 7TV supplement On Location, and one of the Titan Judge Dredd collections. I was looking for a couple of other things but couldn't find them, and the bring and buy was almost bereft of RPG material, so not a huge amount of luck there.

So... enjoyable to an extent, I'll probably give it another go next year but if I don't feel that's more interesting it may be the last for a while.

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a campaign using the Laundry Files rules in July, though it's something of a variant: the player characters have low-end special powers as an option, and the campaign is based in Australia, where the relevant organization is the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (motto: See the Unseen Know the Unknown). I figure that Australian involvement in Laundryesque matters grew partly out of encounters with Deep Ones and partly out of keeping watch over the Great Race ruins in the deserts. The system seems to be mainly Call of Cthulhu but the treatment of sorcery is quite different and interesting.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of room for interesting variants in the Laundryverse - every nation probably has its own slant on how to handle things. For example, the Japanese versions might be very bizarre to western eyes - maybe there's an occult reason for all that tentacle porn...

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Sounds like there's a potential for fanfic there.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not from me - don't know the source material well enough.