I’ve just finished my first session in the world of Braythe.
Braythe is the brainchild of Heiner de Wendt, who I met on Twitter. It is a world born anew after a magical apocalypse.
While I can’t tell you much about the setting yet, I can say this: it feels great to explore an unknown and strange world.
And Braythe is unknown twice over.
One Last Night by Abram Bussiere is not a game I expected to find in Game Chef. It’s a drinking game.
Unlike most drinking games, the object of One Last Night is not to make participants share and/or do embarrassing things. Instead it has players compile a pre-apocalyptic wish list – things to do before the world ends and we all die, and then play out the difficulties of choosing between them with limited time, as well as the joy of getting each done.
Coyote Won’t Talk, written by Morgan Stinson for Game Chef 2012, is a rather serious game, as far as what’s at stake – judging humanity’s faults and triumphs. Four great animal spirits reflect on humanity, as the world ends around them: the Fox, the Dog, the Wolf and the Coyote (who doesn’t talk… mostly).
This game got to me. It’s the worst practical joke you can play on a geek. Reading through the introduction left me thinking “Wait, what?!” – you’ll know what I mean when you read it.
The Game in Last Appearances #4 by Paul Czege is set in the DC Universe. It has the players tell the story of 3 great DC superheroes fighting over a certain young lady by the name of Madkitten.
As part of my participation in Game Chef I am to review four games submitted by other contestants.
One of these is Tears in Rain by Alex Mayo, a game of past regrets and mistakes.
In this game you play a man slowly dying in his sleep, enveloped in the freezing cold of a damaged cryosleep pod, onboard a spaceship that can explode any minute now. Or maybe it will just drift in space for eternity, the steel coffin for your dead body. Before that happens, though, you dream your last dreams… What a powerful and intriguing idea!