3 Nov, 2022
Roleplaying Games
Pete Nash and Lawrence Whitaker’s1 Mythras is a Basic-Roleplaying-derived table-top simulationist fantasy roleplaying game.
In the beginning there was Chaosium’s RuneQuest and Greg Stafford saw that it was good. Fast forward three decades…
6 Jan, 2022
Roleplaying Games
Design Mechanism’s 2020 Lyonesse roleplaying game is a fantasy roleplaying game based on the Lyonesse novels—Lyonesse (AKA Suldrun’s Garden), The Green Pearl, and Madouc—of Jack Vance. It was written by Dominic Mooney, Dave Morris, Pete Nash, Mark Shirley, and Lawrence Whitaker1.
Despite the best efforts of Andrew Wheeler, I am not myself a Jack Vance fan. Why, then, acquire a copy of a licensed roleplaying game set in a Vancian world I’ve not read?