#360
Aug 24, 2025
Books
This week I read:
The Deep and the Dark from Mongoose Publishing
Reaver’s Deep is another fun frontier region with the Imperium, Solomani Confederation, and Aslan Hierate all being present, along with a variety of interstellar states. It’s a frontier powderkeg, much like the Trojan Reach (my preferred campaign locale) and the Spinward Marches (the traditional Traveller campaign setting)—it’s easy to see why these places are popular. Dark Nebula is almost entirely dominated by the Solomani Confederation and Aslan Hierate, with a smattering of independent worlds, and seems much more suited to a political game. The book has a lot of good info on all these factions, which would be useful in games set elsewhere too.
Roleplaying Games
The Halls of Arden Vul
This week we had a full house again and got back to some good old fashioned adventuring. The players set off in pursuit of a pair of magic swords they’ve heard tell of, and have ended up in the right sort of area but still have a ways to go. Naturally, they’ve turned away from the actual route to the swords deciding—for some reason that I didn’t quite catch—that the swords can’t be that way, and are looking elsewhere.