I agree, I don't think gimmick dice add anything that couldn't be worked out by a halfway competent player let alone a fully competent GM.
I think almost all the gimmick dice I have seen have been high-price which, as noted, smacks of profiteering.

The headline reads: - "Fisherman baffled after pulling 60 mystery cubes with bizarre inscriptions from UK river" However I don't think magnet fishing really qualifies him to be a "fisherman" but whatever... the only important thing here is that the man located a number of metal c...

Having seen some discussion on the Year Zero system being used for the new Twilight: 2000 edition, I am definitely not enthusiastic about Fria Ligan being the ones to develop it. Those rules leave out a number of aspects that some of us feel contributed largely to the feel of the T2k game. I have no...

Sounds like what you're after is a blend of Twilight: 2000 and Merc: 2000 - T2k for the world background and M2k for the episodic, mission-oriented play style? I had a somewhat parallel experience to you Linden, I was not interested in what a lot of the North American T2k fans seemed to believe the ...

Very interesting, particularly that they are in some sort of collaboration with Amargosa Press (who we know as the people taking over the 4th edition of DarkCon). Can't say I'm interested in their D6 rules particularly as they're related to the rules for the new Alien game which apparently are a hot...

Per Kevin's suggestion about the victims having a common denominator, how about a scrawled message that they've "gone home to mother"? I like that a lot! The implication of the creature is there... if you knew beforehand what you were looking for... but the message "appears" to ...

Random train of thought over my mid-morning cup of coffee... In regard to Linden's suggestions, he mentions people disappearing near the area of the Toxic Mother. Typically in many scenarios the people who disappear are poorer folk who suffer from government/police apathy and "won't be missed&q...

Must agree to the series being addictive, I binged on them over the last few days because I wanted to hear the next part, then the next part, then the next... A well done series that was well told and enjoyable and also a bit of a jog to the memory with some of the events and people they referenced ...

Just started listening to this and a point is raised about the colour pages within the main DarkCon book whereupon Marcus replies that he thinks that they were included because GDW were a bit flush with cash at that point in time. He's absolutely correct about them having the money to spend, GDW had...

Ah ha! So yes, i was sucked in by radio play style. I thought that they were genuine adverts too. After making my post, I continued listening to the first episode and it slowly dawned on me that I was mistaken. :oops: Which is a damned shame in some ways because I really wanted to listen to the othe...

I have to say, after beginning the first episode of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, I was sufficiently intrigued by the "admin" intro that I attempted to look up Mystery Machine and Red Hook Stories on the web. Mystery Machine certainly lives up to the first part of its name because it's ...

Looks very interesting. As mentioned in the past I'm not big on podcasts but this is more to my tastes (plus I'm going to pass it along to a friend of mine who is a big Cthulhu fan).

I've had a bit of time to mull this over and on a personal level, I'd like to see some opponents that haven't appeared that often in the published adventures. Bad guys from the main book, GDW adventures or Dark Races is what I'm thinking of rather than those adventures published in Challenge or othe...

I'm with Lee on this, doing something like this might sweep the cobwebs out of my head and get some creative juice flowing again.

While I should not have been surprised, i was a bit surprised to discover that there is a Reddit forum for DC: - https://www.reddit.com/r/darkconspiracy/

Not a lot of posts so far but what there is, is interesting.