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green_dreamsVajra Enterprises, creator of Fates Worse Than Death, has a new game out. Modern urban horror, a nifty-looking little thing called In Dark Alleys.
I liked FWD. The system (and worse, setting) felt way, way too crunchy, but this can be fixed; I think it'd take perhaps fifteen minutes to break the back of the numbers and fit them into WW tabletop terms. And the concepts ranged from "kind of neat" to "dear God, Colin is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in a future-setting game".
If IDA (which actually had what I think is the only ad on an RPG site that ever caught my attention enough to click on it) doesn't have a canon city and the population isn't split down into percentages so exactly that you get the impression you could write in and ask for the eye colours of the twelve memory rapists in the city, the crunchy setting issue could be considerably reduced. Must keep an eye out for that game.
I liked FWD. The system (and worse, setting) felt way, way too crunchy, but this can be fixed; I think it'd take perhaps fifteen minutes to break the back of the numbers and fit them into WW tabletop terms. And the concepts ranged from "kind of neat" to "dear God, Colin is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in a future-setting game".
If IDA (which actually had what I think is the only ad on an RPG site that ever caught my attention enough to click on it) doesn't have a canon city and the population isn't split down into percentages so exactly that you get the impression you could write in and ask for the eye colours of the twelve memory rapists in the city, the crunchy setting issue could be considerably reduced. Must keep an eye out for that game.
