Right up your alley.

I have begun work on a new project. I make no claims as to originality, indeed the basic conceit is straight out of Jurassic Park. However a chance comment from a friend thankfully took me away from a simple rehash of that old story to something hopefully new: taking what was already going to be survival horror and distilling it to cosmic horror. I will (hopefully if I remember) continue to discuss the process of writing this adventure and make my work available through this blog until it is done, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll even be able to get published

Crunch for at least the early drafts of this adventure will use d20 Call of Cthulhu, because it offers ancient cosmic horrors by virtue of being COC and offers lots of dinosaurs by being compatible with D&D 3.x, but I hope to make this adventure available in a system that people (especially my precious few readers) will actually play, and to that end I need a recommendation for a modern-day-setting horror game that is easy to homebrew for or already has, by some miracle, an abundance of premade Dinosaurs.

Hey, lookit what I found!

Pretty cool, huh?

Another short one. Maybe I should get a twitter or something.

I think I've just figured out why people like this are so full of "4e isn't D&D because it isn't like 3e". It's because they've never even read any system other than 3e and 4e so they have no baseline for comparison.

Not to say 4e is so very much more like previous editions than 3e was, but it does have some more old-school aspects, at least in my experiences with.

Underrated Importance

There's one fantasy novel I think tremendously important that I don't think has been given the credit it deserves among the old-school community.
I'll assemble a post about it shortly.
In the meantime, feel free to guess what it is.

Bounty

I've recently come into posession of a number of wonderful old-school products, among them products from Arduin, Tekumel, and FASA's Star Trek lines, plus (at long last!) OD&D. I'd like very much in the near future to write brief reviews of them, but that's not a type of writing that comes naturally to me. Any experienced reviewers who'd be kind enough to give me some points on writing a book review that doesn't sound like a droning school report?

Tangent

Only vaguely related to gaming, but between Barking Alien's excellent posts recently and the new movie (Damned excellent by my standards, though a very different animal) my enthusiasm for Star Trek is at its highest since I was 13.

Here's hoping I don't get quite so enthusiastic as I was at that age, though. I was such a weirdo back then.

Any readers seen the new movie yet? What did you guys think? And I'm still taking suggestions about simplifying my RPG tastes.

You know what?

I want to simplify. I can't remember the last time I just sat and read through an RPG book I'd already read for the hell of it, which is a damn shame because I used to like to do that.
I don't even seem to do that with bestiaries any more.