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Another Repeat Bundle - Baker Street
Sep. 18th, 2024 07:23 pmThis is a repeat offer (from 2022) of a Sherlock Holmes RPG from Fearlight Games:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Baker2024
Last time I said
"This looks like it could be fun, though I think it really needed a Brit-picking read through by someone who could have explained that Brits talk about "pounds, shillings, and pence" rather than "...and pennies" and used fraction signs rather than decimal points for ¼d and ½d in the Victorian era, and spotted some other minor issues - it's fairly evident that the authors are American. Not that one should hold it against the poor chaps, of course...
More seriously, about the worst problem I can see with this is that one of the supplements covers the Ripper murders, which may raise some hackles - there is currently some opposition to commercial exploitation of the case, spurred on by an attempt to open a sensationalist Ripper museum in Whitechapel a couple of years ago. That seems to have been killed off by covid, so far as I'm aware, [it wasn't - the museum reopened after lockdown ended and still exists] but I suspect that the sentiment hasn't gone away completely."
I'm still not convinced that an RPG really needs a huge emphasis on the Ripper killings, but I'm apparently in a minority here.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Baker2024
Last time I said
"This looks like it could be fun, though I think it really needed a Brit-picking read through by someone who could have explained that Brits talk about "pounds, shillings, and pence" rather than "...and pennies" and used fraction signs rather than decimal points for ¼d and ½d in the Victorian era, and spotted some other minor issues - it's fairly evident that the authors are American. Not that one should hold it against the poor chaps, of course...
More seriously, about the worst problem I can see with this is that one of the supplements covers the Ripper murders, which may raise some hackles - there is currently some opposition to commercial exploitation of the case, spurred on by an attempt to open a sensationalist Ripper museum in Whitechapel a couple of years ago. That seems to have been killed off by covid, so far as I'm aware, [it wasn't - the museum reopened after lockdown ended and still exists] but I suspect that the sentiment hasn't gone away completely."
I'm still not convinced that an RPG really needs a huge emphasis on the Ripper killings, but I'm apparently in a minority here.
