Continuum continued - Firefly and a VERY interesting idea

The Firefly game was fun - won't say much about it because the guy who ran it is using it as his main demo game at cons, but I will say that Heroquest seems to work pretty well as a system for this setting, and that running into the Blue Sun corporation can be a little worrying...

The "State of the Rowland" thing went well. Didn't have a huge audience but one excellent suggestion was made for Forgotten Futures; as of a month or so ago G.K. Chesterton is out of copyright, and there would appear to be no reason why I can't use his work. Some of his fiction is borderline fantasy and SF, and I think that his style would work pretty well. I also know at least one expert on him, Dave Langford.

As a first thought the books I would want to base things on would be:

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Club of Queer Trades
The Man who was Thursday

Not the Father Brown stories, I think. Any other suggestions?

I'm running At The Mountains of Flatness at ten - I asked for six players and have nine sign-ups, fortunately I brought loads of character sheets. Just hope my brain is up to that many players.

More later.

Catthulhu, Flatland

To answer Matt's question from my previous post, the Catthulhu article is in Worlds of Cthulhu issue 4

http://woc.reppisch.org/previews.php

You can apparently buy it via Warehouse 23.


At The Mountains of Flatness went pretty well, with seven players in the end. A motley assortmant of triangles plus one pentagon who was along as doctor. Evil cultists were met and soundly thrashed, only one fatality amongst the adventurers though there were a few near misses, and they eventually expeienced the full horrors of Non-Euclidean Geometry. Not sure what I'll be doing the rest of the day, probably some board and card games before the auction in the evening.