The Dark Times, edited by Lee Williams, is a fanzine that follows
on from Demonground and Protodimension in dealing with "the
horror-conspiracy-weirdness gaming genres", beginning with Dark
Conspiracy and drifting into nearby areas.
This one's shorter than previous issues at a total of 30 PDF
pages, and the article titles on the contents page don't always
exactly match those on the articles themselves.
Enter Vault 576 (Tad Kelson) is a review of the Fallout
Shelter game for Android. Sounds like the standard free to play, pay
to get to the next interesting bit, model.
Precursor and Exomorph Generator (Joe Klemann) is actually ten bits
of Weird Alien Tech and a series of lists which can be mixed and
matched to produce player-character-eating monsters. If I ever return
to This Dim Spot and UNECRO, I'll
certainly use this.
Argus II, (Bradley K. McDevitt), well, all right, I couldn't draw
it, but it doesn't do anything for me.
Sunflower Masquerade Act 1 (Joe Klemann) continues this Lovecraftian
adventure. (Technically for Trail of Cthulhu but it really doesn't
matter.) A new theatre is being built in Arkham, and a drama student
dies in an apparent suicide. (Though technically if it's on the neck
it's probably not a defensive wound. Yes, I know too much about
forensic medicine.) It's fine as far as it goes, but it's still not a
complete adventure.
From The Editor's Attic (Lee Williams) mentions that the issue was
put together in haste.
There are only really two usable articles here, but I'm indeed likely
to use one of them; the other is incomplete so far. The Dark Times #4
is freely available from
its web site.
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