You are a gamer – and sometimes a game designer – and your friends know what to do as Christmas approaches: they hit you with games. This is what happens to me every year, and 2017 is no exception. Yesterday a new game arrived, and I can already see I’ll have lots of fun with this baby.
Lords of Gossamer and Shadow was developed a few years back, in 2013 in fact, and financed with a Kickstarter. The game is the ideal heir of the old, legendary Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game – a game based on Roger Zelazny’s Amber novels.
Now I know and I have held in my hands a copy of Amber Diceless, but I have never played it, and this is absolutely shameful for a Zelazny fan.
But now I have the opportunity to make up for lost time, and it will be great to finally try that system with this new game. Continue reading
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