Welcome to Virtual Play! In this episode, Bill and I discuss Ashen Stars and Night’s Black Agents. Bill ran both these games at Dexcon. They are both based on the Gumshoe system, by Pelgrane Press, and so share the same basic mechanics. Ashen Stars includes rules to give it a science fiction feel: space combat, space travel, cyberware, and other features. Night’s Black Agents recreates the spy thriller genre, with the addition of vampires!
I apologize in advance for the sound quality. Bill and I must have had a bad connection for our conversation but I hope you will bear with the rough patches.
The episode clocks in at 80 minutes, so it is a little long. I wanted to include enough excerpts from the games to give you a sense of how they sound in play.
Mel
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I love your actual play reports. If you were willing, I’d be happy to cross post themed episodes to Page XX.
Simon,
Feel free to cross post to anything you think relevant.
Mel