reading

Stuff I’ve read and felt compelled to write about

  • Cold City 2e – Quick Read Review

    Cold City 2e – Quick Read Review

    I had a quick read of this last night so these are just first impressions. (ed’s note: this was originally posted on my Discord) The engine is punchy, narrative-first. It’s d10 dice-pool vs. dice-pool. Both sides roll; whoever has the higher single die wins. Your “successes” are every die above the opponent’s highest die (ties…

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  • Delta Green Quickstart – First Impressions

    Delta Green Quickstart – First Impressions

    My take on Delta Green: Need to Know (the free Quickstart), as a CoC7-first GM who likes Trail’s clue ethos and isn’t into heavy metacurrencies. The engine works for me. It’s classic roll-under percentile with familiar BRP stats/skills, so the table friction is about the same as CoC7. Checks are clean, sample damage is intuitive…

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