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Last week, as the snow came down, making me feel like I was in one of those snowglobe paperweights, I treked out to the Compleat Strategist. The store had just gotten Chaosium's Japan supplement for Call of Cthulhu, and I'd heard good things about it.
It's massive. The art is appropriate -- a lot of recent Chaosium supplements have lots of illos of bugs. These don't really fit the mood, and I'm not a fan of bug art. But the Japan supplement has illos that fit the Japan setting. And it's for the modern period, so it's more useful to the campaign I'm currently running than a Classic Cthulhu setting would be.
While I was at the Strategist, I saw that TriStat's Tekumel is finally out, so I grabbed it. I showed it to Stephen Tihor, who was one of the playtesters. He was pleased to note that it also has appropriate art. The Tekumel setting is a very warm one, so people dress (or don't) appropriately. Not necessarily luridly, but appropriately.
I also got Toxic Memes for GURPS Transhuman, and Behind the Eyes of Madness, a supplement for Fates Worse than Death. FWTD is a combination of interesting premises, utterly absurd premises, hideous editing/proofreading, and really nifty ideas I can grab. Like the Japan supplement, it's massive, only more so. The English major in me wants to tell folks to avoid it -- but it's just got too much cool stuff in it.
It's massive. The art is appropriate -- a lot of recent Chaosium supplements have lots of illos of bugs. These don't really fit the mood, and I'm not a fan of bug art. But the Japan supplement has illos that fit the Japan setting. And it's for the modern period, so it's more useful to the campaign I'm currently running than a Classic Cthulhu setting would be.
While I was at the Strategist, I saw that TriStat's Tekumel is finally out, so I grabbed it. I showed it to Stephen Tihor, who was one of the playtesters. He was pleased to note that it also has appropriate art. The Tekumel setting is a very warm one, so people dress (or don't) appropriately. Not necessarily luridly, but appropriately.
I also got Toxic Memes for GURPS Transhuman, and Behind the Eyes of Madness, a supplement for Fates Worse than Death. FWTD is a combination of interesting premises, utterly absurd premises, hideous editing/proofreading, and really nifty ideas I can grab. Like the Japan supplement, it's massive, only more so. The English major in me wants to tell folks to avoid it -- but it's just got too much cool stuff in it.
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