Played a game of silly superheros - I was a talking black black bear whose powers were roaring, giving hugs, and ambling cutely. Fun!

My copy of Red Tide, Adventure in a Crimson World arrived today. A very interesting approach, following on from Stars without Number.

The items you can find on this blog under the category Actual Play and tag actual play (except for this entry) describe actual play sessions from some of my games. They tend more to describing in-game events, but sometimes talk about mechanical aspects of the game illuminated during the session, or creative aspects of running a game. Sometimes they're just a session recap, written so that when I come back to that campaign in a week or a month or six months so I can look up the details of the last couple of sessions to figure out what was happening and where the campaign is going. These latter sometimes are barely more than a list of the places the PCs visited and events of notoriety:

The PCs went to 20, where Olsman chopped the head off an ogre with one blow. Afterwards they started down the stairs to 23, but the stairs collapsed into a slide, and much hilarity ensued as they tried to avoid stabbing and bashing each other as they tumbled down and landed in a deep pool.

My copy of Frog God Games The Tome of Horrors Complete, for Swords & Wizardry, arrived today. My, that's a massive tome: a hardback with 671 numbered pages followed by 14 pages of advertisements. (In a smaller book, I might have complained about that many pages of advertisements, but in a book this large it doesn't seem excessive.) From my earlier quick perusal of the PDF and a brief scan of the hardback today I'm very pleased with the content, and I'm looking forward to using this in my game. To the folks who worked on this: well done!

My print copy of ASE1 — Anomalous Subsurface Environment, by Patrick Wetmore of Henchman Abuse arrived today. Looks interesting to a quick scan.