I’m a lucky sumbitch.

From my friends and family, I received Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition (WFRP3), Shab-Al-Hiri Roach plus Dead of Night.

You should buy these games (or have your family buy them for you). WFRP3 is gorgeous, wonderfully fiddly and different. It’s fantasy + grim + rich dice.

Shab-Al-Hiri Roach is, well, it’s one of those perception changing indie books. It’s witty but vulgar. The black humour RPG.

Dead of Night—I haven’t read it all yet, but it looks exciting and Paul-Bourne-pretty. Slasher flicks and rising tension mechanics.

This is a amorphous list of games I don’t own yet, but want.

I’ll adjust it over time.

• Blowback
• Burning Wheel
• Dead of Night
• Diaspora
• Dresden Files
• Greyranks
• Houses of the Blooded
• Lacuna (Part 1)
• Leverage
• Macheine Zeit
• Misspent Youth
• Mortal Coil
• Mutant City Blues
• Shab-Al-Hiri Roach
• Smallville
• Trollbabe
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Ed

EDIT: Added Mutant City Blues
EDIT: Crossed out 2010 Christmas presents!

Wow, Gaelcon was fun.

I hope to post play reports of the games I tried. For now, here’s a visual chunk until More… »

Delving deeper into the marginalia of yesterday’s review, I’ll try to explain my anxieties about the game’s text. Before you read on, bear in mind this caveat: This is just me talking.

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