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simon cogan
United Kingdom
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I’m even closer to finishing ‘Silence Will Fall’ now with only 3 pages to go, and what I have done has been proofread by another player and passed ‘second base’ as it were. There’s some more playtesting due this weekend – the Ganger factory, Victorian Earth and Demon’s Run are to be visited, and the Gangers and Madam Kovarian need to be tested as Enemies.
I’m due to put up some more Ally cards here on BGG too – another 3 sheets – to help players in recording less in their games. It should be cleared by admin in a couple of days so look out for it if interested.
Also, work is starting on another version of the game that will play on your desktop and automatically record values like Turn number, DM, Luck and enable you to click to find relevant info rather than flip through the books. With the promise of images and sound fx, this could be another exciting phase of the game. It’s been attempted before, but I’m afraid people don’t quite realise what a massive beast DWSSG is in terms of cross-referencing and the sheer volume of material involved.
It’s early days yet though, but the first results look very encouraging. I hope we stick with it – the method of communication between myself and the project developer are much better than ever before certainly – and the game gets yet another facelift and the chance to tempt in even more players.
More audio fun with Big Finish this week and another ‘lost story’ with the 7th Doctor, Ace and (ever so sexy) Raine in ‘Animal’. This is certainly a huge improvement on last week’s dross and rattles along quite nicely. It stays loyal to the feel of the seventh Doctor’s era with, in my opinion, the inherent weaknesses of the leads (not Beth Chalmers – she’s very easy on the ear…) but both McCoy and Aldred are fine here. The story also features the return of Angela Bruce as Brigadier Bambera but sadly (again, in my opinion) she’s quite poor in terms of character and delivery. Only a bit better than she was in ‘Battlefield’ actually, so at least it’s authentic…
The story itself is a little disjointed with a massive shift in emphasis in parts 3 and 4 from the plot that was presented in parts 1 and 2. There’s a bit of plot-contrivance too where my disbelief started slipping. For example a huge spaceship appears over a university in England, yet nobody panics or even worries about it. The new alien race, the Numlocs (no idea if I spelt that correctly) have a unique speech pattern but there’s hardly a physical description of them at all, so it’s very difficult to build up a picture in your mind what they actually look like. There’s also an unwelcome cameo from the Metatraxi who is still talking like a surf dude. Not funny then, not funny here...
But having said all this, it’s enjoyable enough if not remarkable or terribly exciting.
Bog standard 5/10 from me.
Anyone else listen to this one?
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