book recommendation

[kmusser]

I recently finished reading War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (Amazon link). This is one of the classics of post-apocalypse writing, originally published in 1984 I expected it to be kind of dated, but one of my co-workers recommended it highly. Reading it I was very impressed. It's a novel written in a documentary style, describing what life is like in the U.S. after a limited nuclear war. The realism it manages to convey is excellent, it contains a wealth of technical detail, while also making the impact of the war very personal on a human level. Not nearly as dated as I was afraid it would be, inded with current events it seems very timely, if somewhat depressing. Anyway, I definitely recommend it - and for anyone running post-apocalypse RPGs I'd consider it a must read.

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[wylddelirium.livejournal.com]

It will be a campaign running in the metro DC area, starting in the fall of 2007, scheduled to have four to six games a year (some full weekend, some 8 hour day-long games). We're expecting day games to be hosted at a private residence or residences and weekend long games will likely be at the Germantown Hampton Inn.

They will be open to the public insofar as anyone can sign up to play. We're looking at 30 characters only, and once that number is reached we'll be cutting off full characters, although there may be opportunities for short, one shot type characters as well.

More information will be available once I stop writing about Scottish Fae. :grin: