For
one of my many pandemic diversions this year I picked up a copy of
James Maliszewski’s Thousand
Suns
roleplaying game. It’s
lingered on the periphery of my gaming radar for a while. I’m
an
admirer
of the author’s Tékumel
fanzine, The
Excellent Travelling Volume, as
well as his Grognardia blog.
Having
enjoyed
classic Traveller
back in the day – my “Golden Age of Roleplaying” in the early
and mid 1980s – Thousand
Suns’
allure of “imperial
science fiction” appealed
to
my gaming nostalgia. So
I ordered a print-on-demand copy of the second, more generously
illustrated edition and started reading.
