![]() I also set up a folder on Google Drive to store the various play aids and cheat sheets, dedicated text and voice channels on my Discord server for our group to chat about character and crew creation, and a big Pinterest board to save visual inspirations. This made it more fun for me to set up my play space because I’m a great big nerd! Our virtual tabletop is Roll20, where it turned out that Son of Oak Game Studio had already released a really slick version of their regular character sheet, fully interactive with scripts allowing you to click to roll the dice without ever having to worry about the math. In addition, it’s a fairly diverse group, which I enjoy and feel more comfortable with than the monocultures of white cis men of my youth. But new heroes stepped forth to fill the front lines and I now have five players, which is a great number to be able to run regularly, even when one or two can’t make it for a given episode. This new campaign started with a disappointment since two dear friends who initially signed on to play had to back out. Suffice it to say that I soon found myself planning an online campaign. When I did start reading, however, I was soon swept away by the atmosphere in the setting portions, and delighted to finally see an interesting mashup of the PbtA structure with the narrative weight of Fate Core‘s Aspects under the guise of “tags.” But I will review the system in another post when I have played enough to be satisfied that I really grokk it. But that bounty became daunting: there seemed to be so much reading to do that I kept pushing in back in the reading queue in favour of shorter games and fiction. Since then, I had received not only the materials covered by backer tier, but a goodly number of supplemental materials since publisher Son of Oak Game Studio was generous with free content to backers. ![]() I had backed this Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) game at the PDF-only level in the original Kickstarter funding campaign in 2016. I’m not ready yet for a game review, but here is what’s going on with the campaign setup and launch. ![]() Präsentationsort im Laden: Ihr findet mich im Regal L14.New month, new year, new decade: I finally launched the City of Mist game I had been prepping since late November, running online via Roll20 and Discord.
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