His Head Doesn't Glimmer

I started watching Andor yesterday. Gosh that first episode is terrible at setting up the premise, isn't it? If you were coming to this without having seen Rogue One it must be baffling; coming to it as a casual Star Wars fan, or as someone following the hype, it must be incomprehensible. But I will stick with it, as I am told by everyone that it is very good indeed.

In truth, it will be a bit of a struggle, not least because I can't take the villain Syril Karn seriously. He's basically Arnold Rimmer.

With the protagonist -- opening scene aside -- being portrayed as a cheeky chancer, the whole thing has a UK sitcom feel, which isn't helped by 90% of the cast having appeared in UK sitcoms. We'll see how far I can get.

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

Bear with me, my computer died last week, hence the lack of significant updates.

(Not that I'm promising significant updates when my new thinking machine arrives, but you get what I mean.)

I'll be back in a few days. I hope.

Five Alive!

In a fearsome feedback loop that threatens the very fabric of not much at all, Adam at Barking Alien followed up on my first five role-playing games post with a post about the five rpgs he's thinking about most right now. Or then, when he wrote the post. That seems like an excellent idea. Let's have at it!

• 13th Age. I'm often thinking about 13th Age because I think it's an excellent game and I very much enjoyed running it in the past. I read 13th Age Glorantha the other day -- I backed as a Kickstarter in 1873 or thereabouts and never got around to reading -- and while it's massively incomplete, it has a lot of very good ideas. It's another layer of complexity on top of the base game -- I refer to it as Advanced 13th Age to no one because there's no one else here -- so I don't know if I'd run it, but it did make me excited to play 13A again, in some form.
• Break!! I've got an idea for subverting the bright and cheery feel of Break!! with an apocalyptic horror campaign influenced by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Kingdom Death, and few other bleak and depressing things. I can't quite decide if this is a terrible idea, or bold and exciting. Perhaps I will play it to find out!
• Call of Cthulhu. I am almost always thinking about Call of Cthulhu. It has been too long since I last played.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess. This is a bit of a cheat as I'm working on a couple of books, but I am thinking about it and it is an rpg, so...
• Star Wars d6. I've got a rough idea for a pirate campaign, a mix of original content and some published adventures I've got lying around that would fit well with a bit of bodging. This also ties in with another post I really need to get around to publishing one day. This day? No.