Way back when I was a teenager I was quite into Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (amongst other Games Workshop stuff) and when I went to college/uni I moved onto other role-playing games (Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia and MechWarrior mostly) and some collectable card games (Star Wars mainly, with occasional forays elsewhere).
Nowadays I’m not much of a gamer. I still buy the Call of Cthulhu RPG and card stuff and that’s about it. If there’s a game that catches my attention then I may buy it just for the background and the game mechanics. These days I seem to be more into the structure of a good game than the playing of it.
Which leads me nicely to the Serenity RPG. What appeals to me (based on my enjoyment of the Firefly series) is the good storytelling involved. Sure, we have spaceships and fighting and exciting locations but we also have the sympathetic characters and the DAMN GOOD STORIES. For me that’s the kind of thing that draws me to a roleplaying game, storytelling rather than “bash the monsters”, although that can be good fun too.
So, after watching and enjoying both the series and the film, and on the basis of reviews like this, anyone want a game of Serenity?
BigAl
