Weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com Website Review

This is a blog about my worlds and ideas for tabletop RPG settings, and discussions about RPGs, worldbuilding, and genre fiction. post-cyberpunk, and Lovecraftian but with many original mythos-style entities in addition to the pre-existing Lovecraftian lore. The game Unfortunately, the creator of the game and setting committed suicide several years ago, and the book was never published, despite being almost complete. I've been trying to see if the man*script can be recovered and if this game can one day be published, so I've been reading the novels set within Yellow Dawn and reviewing them in order to bring awareness to this creator. I hope this will inspire others to This review may contain minor spoilers. It is intended as a broad-level discussion of the book and not a detailed plot synopsis.     So, I liked Black Lake a fair bit. I felt like that book told a solid story in the vein of stories like At the Mountains of Madness or The Thing, but back-loaded too much of the setting and lore. Dog Eat Dog also feels rooted in a genre, in this case in the vein of gritty political thrillers such as the Bourne series or the grittier Bond stuff.     Compared to Black Lake, this book feels much more de*ply tied to the setting. The political factions that drive the plot of the book are all part of the lore of the setting, as are the Living Cities in this post-cyberpunk, post-apocalypse world. To me, this book confirmed some of what I felt Black Lake alluded to about the setting, which is that despite being a cyberpunk Lovecraftian post-apocalypse, it's surprisingly optimistic. The corporate conglomerate that had basically controlled the world in the cyberpunk era has been largely overtaken by a new global democratic government, and humanity seems on its way to stability and rebuilding in the wake of the disasters of the Yellow Dawn event. I really like this setting; for as familiar as it is in some ways, it has some interesting wrinkles, and I wish more cyberpunk