Thunderbolt wrote on Nov 28
th, 2015 at 8:50am:
Oh.. gods.. I can't wait to receive my copy!!! I'm very tempted to buy it anyways... again! My friends had an absolute SCREAM playing the play-test of the Centerville Assault... no better enemies than spellcasting Nazis with cybernetic Valkyrie... and my players were AWESOME..NONE of the Valkyrie died..they are actually trying to break their conditioning, such HEROES!
Been planning on buying Department 88 anyways.. want great bridge part 2...
Wow! They were trying to turn the baddies! Very heroic! They deserve some bonuses for that.
Also, you're making me blush a little.
City Under Siege was a pain to write, but also a lot of fun! I got to step away from my normal anime/manga niche and do something a little different. It's really hard to discuss much on the forum without giving away spoiler - so I'll let it just go without comment for a while, other than to say it's actually kind of dark.
I really like Department 88. I just sat down and went kinda nuts with the whole "Japanese CHESS" concept. There is actually more stuff I could have put in there, but it was already getting to about the right page-count, and I could not figure out how to fit more in. Maybe I'll do another D-88 book one day. For now I am relaxing and pondering a Trilogy involving Kaiser Albrecht, the Valkyries, and more clockwork soldiers.
Great Bridge 2 was also fun to write. The biggest issue I had was that I had covered so many Anime/Manga archetypes in GB1, that I had to do some real work to get characters. I knew I wanted to do a Sentai Team of some kind, but I had already created the Armor Dolls in "Centerville Incident", so I went another direction with the low-tech sentai team. A Super-Sentai team would be cool as well, but the "Really Big Thing" rules need to be play-tested some more.
I did finally write an adventure featuring Marie LaRouge and her gals. It even has enhanced stats for her crew, and some information about how she operates. It was designed for first-time players, so it's really straight forward, but fun for new guys and can be tweaked for more experienced players. I still need to write backgrounds for her crewmembers. What do ya'll think? Should they be First Person like Marie's or third person (from Marie's point of view)?