April News

[sparkletwist]

What's new on the CBG lately?

Weave has started a new setting called Pinnacle, a steampunk setting exploring concepts like colonialism and over the top science. It's definitely worth a look!

In addition to that, continuing the trend of being inspired by the 19th (and early 20th) century, HippopotamusDundee has created a system and setting currently entitled "Lovecraft Holmes". If anyone could get to the bottom of the mysteries of Lovecraft's mythos, Sherlock Holmes could.

Superbright has started a new setting called The Plateau, which she described as a "mix of wuxia, chanbara, Hong Kong blood opera, dime novels and Spaghetti Westerns as written by HP Lovecraft, with a healthy dose of splatterpunk body horror thrown in for good measure."

Ghostman has also started a thread called "Brainstorming" containing miscellaneous content for the Savage Age (a somewhat under-appreciated setting around here, if you ask me). Right now it contains a pretty cool idea for sorceresses, and will no doubt include more in the future.

Do you like PbP (play by post) games? In addition to Polycarp's long-running Republic Reborn, there is Steerpike's Underdeep, and we also have Raelifin's City of the Chosen, set in a mysterious city full of people from various times and places, and Humabout's Mnemosyne, taking place on a dying alien planet with scarce resources.

How do you feel about d20 Modern? (This topic came up once before, while discussing Arga, but now there's a new thread devoted solely to talking about d20 Modern)

Has all there is to say been said about alignment? Maybe, maybe not.

Another interesting conversation that has started lately is about "authenticity" in settings and how important it is.

[Cheomesh]

What is this trend of 19th / early 20th century stuff?

M.

[sparkletwist]

Nothing really. I just noticed a couple of settings along that theme pop up near the same time.

[LD]

Thank you again for running this monthly update series!