Post Ak0Jvy3cHdzyeNwSMS by SJohnRoss@dice.camp
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 (DIR) Post #Ak0JvvlSoAI1XVQvmy by SJohnRoss@dice.camp
       2024-07-16T21:31:12Z
       
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       Speaking of dead RPG projects; one I remember often is Undying Mars.This was a Call of Cthulhu sourcebook, from whatever remnant was legally using the Chaosium name that week. Ken Hite was the project editor, Robin Laws was on it, I was on it, etc. CoC, Mars colonies, with nods to all the Mars things: a Barsoom-tinged adventure, a Bradbury, a Lem probably. Could've been very good. I bailed before it died. Cursed from the start, IMO.#CoC #TTRPG
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak0Jvx5hsO4neZubyq by elmiko@fosstodon.org
       2024-07-16T21:44:02Z
       
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       @SJohnRoss it sounds awesome though, and what a cast!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak0Jvy3cHdzyeNwSMS by SJohnRoss@dice.camp
       2024-07-16T21:47:11Z
       
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       @elmiko Lots of other cool folks too... pretty much the Usual Suspects, in those days, for a Hite-led team.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak0JvysJFAY3BbewNM by nyrath@spacey.space
       2024-07-17T00:02:43Z
       
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       @SJohnRoss @elmiko It sounds like a killer concept being developed by a dream-team directed by a legend. I take it the project got the ax? That's a shame.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak0KHcs1jjiPJLqfFg by SJohnRoss@dice.camp
       2024-07-17T00:06:40Z
       
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       @nyrath @elmiko Yeah, it died on the vine. This isn't uncommon, even when contracts have been signed and work partially completed.A very similar team (Hite + the Usual Suspects) did a lot of work on a _killer_ extra-pulpy Star Trek boxed set that died with LUGTrek died. In that case, virtually all of the writing was finished (I posted my chapters on my website back in the day; a couple others did the same).There's an alternate universe rich with these things.