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You say you want more Watchmen?

 
 
Captain Zoom
18:50 / 20.08.02
No, it's not a report of a sequel. The opposite, sort of. I was at one of my distributors' warehouses today when I ran across an old module for the DC Role-Playing Game, based on Watchmen. Cool, thought I, what a fun adventure that'd be to try to muddle through. But I had jumped the gun. It's actually set in 1968 and is an adventure of the Minutemen. Not only that, but Alan Moore was a consultant on the project and co-wrote an essay that's contained therein. I don't know if any more were made, but there ya go. Track it down if you need more Watchmen. It's really quite good. Hey, and self-plugging here, I'll see if I can track down a couple more copies if anyone's interested.

I'll be back with a more critical view once I've had the chance to read it properly, and maybe play it.

Zoom.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
18:59 / 20.08.02
weird!

any chance of the essay going digital mr. zoom?
 
 
jUne, a sunshiny month
19:49 / 20.08.02
heck mighty captain, you can say you turn me white/green in a couple of seconds... "what ? they already fucked our dark knight best memories with this "fill-my-bank-account-please" work from miller, and they wanna twist the other great thing in these last 25 years? are they all mad or what ?".
but no, wrong alert. ouffffff.
 
 
Captain Zoom
15:53 / 21.08.02
See what I can do, yawn.

Zoom.
 
 
houdini
21:16 / 22.08.02
Yeah, I've got that. Not sure that it'd really be playable as an RPG, or quite why you'd want to. Playing other people's characters, particularly when their futures are written, is always pretty hard.

I *did* use it as source material for a game I was intending to run entitled Watchmen: After Midnight, which followed directly from the events in the graphic novel, but it never really went anywhere and I became sketched out about scavenging scraps from the tables of great men and abandoned it after two or three sessions in favour of something entirely homegrown.

But probably nobody cares about this.
 
  
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