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Casus Belli 38 |
| 2021-11-25 |
Casus Belli 38
I've just received my paper copy of Casus Belli 38. I already wrote about it in Narration Principal when the PDF version was made available.
When I was a kid, Casus Belli was almost my only source of information. Now, with the Internet, the magazine feels slightly out of date at each time. But scenarii and critics/opinions do not feel out of sync.
Speaking of scenarii:
- Monsterland for Monstres de Joann Sfar (also the author of The Rabbi's Cat. This scenario was played as a one-shot in actual play (23 pages);
- Le Septième Fragment for the Call of Cthulhu (15 pages);
- Le Prophète de l'Echec for Laelith (city setting for DnD 5e) (11 pages);
- Fuites for The Expanse (9 pages);
- Diversion for Aquablue (13 pages).
There are plenty of reviews, small and large, here are the ones that I noticed:
- Les Brumes, an interactive dungeon system, usable in solo or as a RPG module (5e);
- Macchiato Monsters, I guess I don't need to tell what it is;
- Sur les Chemins de l'Empire, I wrote about it under Roads of the Empire.
There is a "cesspit exploration guide" that looks promising with its 20 random tables. It's meant for Laelith, the city-setting proposed by Casus Belli, but could be adapted to other settings.
There is a sandbox for Hexagon Universe placed in Fontaineblau during the german occupation. Scary.
The "Archéo-Rôlisme" column is about Shadowrun and the "Archéoludologie" one is about The Adventures of Indiana Jones. The latter didn't seem to have survived.
My favourite piece is the interview of Sophie Viger, who leads the Ecole 42. She said: "I am surprised that the Casus Belli readers do not yet know that rôlistes already control the world".
