labcats | Swag, DotM, WorldCon

Got issue #6 of Fell today -- many thanks to Ron Edwards for recommending it.

jlighton brought back the swag I'd asked him to get. Dictionary of Mu looks really good. jlighton said that it should properly be called Encyclopedia of Mu. Aesthetically -- he's right, but "Dictionary" somehow has a better ring in my ear, perhaps simply because that's what I'm used to the game being called. The Princes' Kingdom also looks good.

He also picked up the Hawkmoon monograph from Chaosium and Strange Songs, both of which look cool. I may have the Hawkmoon stuff if it's reprinted from the game Chaosium did years ago, but, y'know, I can live with encouraging the company to keep it in print.

He also got the Weapons of the Gods Companion.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying getting to use parts of Midnight Circus in CthulhuPunk pbem and ftf. I got this as a review copy when it came out, the first White Wolf adventure for all five games. I dreaded finding out it was the usual WW railroad job. To my delight, it was not. An actual "Here's a bunch of stuff going on and what will come of it if the PCs don't intervene" adventure, where the PCs are expected to, well, intervene effectively, plus stats and stuff, and background flavor text.

I see some of its flaws more clearly. In a few ways, the Circus is far too deadly, and unaesthetically (to me) so. Also, in practice, the "Here is the list of characters with stats and background" and the "Here is where everything is in the circus" makes for much annoying page flipping. Really must do my take on how players use gaming products and try to sit on

agrumer to make him do his. That last trick never works, though.

Getting ready for WorldCon. I find that I don't miss GenCon as much as I thought, primarily because a) we did Origins, which was great, b) we did DexCon, which was great, and c) jlighton took a commission to bring me back swag. This year, I am glad of the break. Next year? Depends on whether we do the Japanese WorldCon.

Finished a draft of Felice for DotM, and am working on Vicarious.