and to take a break from the FaceBook carnage today and while I sulk at the mean drawing Mark made of me,
I browsed through some of the books I got with the DrivethroughRPG $20 donation for Haiti relief.
The books that stand out the most are the Margaret Weiss Cortex System books including the Core Book and the rules for the Serenity RPG. I actually own both books but they will help everyone else in the group when we start playing it again after the current Werewolf game. I was looking to also run a Cortex game for a long weekend 
up in Maine sometime (cough<Dave&Sandi’s CoolNewPlace>cough) and was thinking of running either Serenity or a generic Zombie Apocalypse game. I’ve always wanted to run a game where everyone plays a stylized RPG hero version of themselves. Dave would be a quick talking law man in trenchcoat and a flannel who was packing a pair of pistols setting right the wrongs…Sandi, unassuming with a bandoleer of home baked explosives and poisons, she’s sneaky…very sneaky. I was going to run it here with the Tuesday Night Geeks, but opted for Serenity instead as I’ve been wanting to do some Sci-Fi..and, well, they fixed the rules since it’s release. There is actually a Zombie Apocalypse mp3 that came with the bundle to play as background music for a Zombie game.
Another game that stood out (still so many to look at although the download links seem to be fucked) is one called Valherjar The Chosen Slain…
“Epic Roleplaying in a Modern Day Ragnarok
Whatever you believed would happen; you go to Heaven, burn in Hell, spin the next turn on some karmic wheel, or just fade like a flame, death was supposed to be the end of the struggle and strife of this life.
You fell valiantly, in one of the thousands of ways warriors always have; holding the line on some battlefield, tending to the wounded, defending hearth and home — whatever it was, it defined you, and you died in the pursuit of an ideal greater than yourself.”
It looks like you play one of the Slain who has lived in Valhalla since your death, training to fight one day in Ragnarok. Well, Ragnarok is here in modern times and you come back to fight the Jotun. maybe a Norse based Shadowrun thing? Hrmmm…
The one review reads…”Valherjar brings a fresh concept to the table: Undead PCs without angst. The Valherjar are men and women of all cultures who died in battle for a cause in which they completely believed. That was the beginning of their adventures. They then head to Valhalla where they are kept up to date in modern (for whatever era they’re in) warfare equipment and tactics. They’re sent back to Midgard (Earth) to battle the agents of the enemies of the Gods, and thus to stave off Ragnarokr for as long as possible. An exciting concept with limitless potential for high octane fun.”
Might be worth a play…
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