Arctic Light

There's a roleplaying game!

The best description of the history of the game seems to be at a 2019 Kickstarter page to bring it back into print. It dates all the way back to 1976 and was one of the first tabletop RPGs out there - just a couple of years after Dungeons & Dragons. And the reissue is still in print - you can buy it off their website if you want.

Part I discussion here - feel free to join into older discussions or comment on other people's comments! Also, don't miss the Watership Down location post linking to pictures of the places in the book.

( Spoilers for this part under the cut )

As in the previous post, spoilers for future installments are fine in comments. You can set them off or obscure them using sites like rot13 if you want to, but you don't have to.

And here we go with the Watership Down reread! Feel free to link to it if you like. Posts will be roughly once a week, give or take a bit depending on my free time, one post per section and then, after that, perhaps some additional posts for the extra stories and adaptations.

Spoiler policy: I will be avoiding spoilers for future chapters in the main body of the post, but spoilers are fine in the comments. Therefore, if you're reading for the first time, the posts will be fine to read, but the comments are read-at-your-own-risk. (Let me know if you feel this should change.)

Also please feel free to talk among yourselves in the comments if someone else raises a point or asks a question you want to comment on. If you have your own discussion questions, things that were unclear, or anything else you want to ask about, please bring it up!

( And away we go! )

Poll results are generally leaning most strongly to next week and/or late May, on the whole. Since section-by-section posts are also winning the poll, I think what I'll do is put up weekly section-by-section posts, starting next week, with links back to earlier ones. That way people who are eager to get going (.... me) can start early, and other people can jump in when they have time - the posts will continue through June and I can also do a wrap-up post at the end. So everyone gets to participate that way, I think, even though some people might not be able to join in the early posts immediately!

So far, the one person I know of who's reading it for the first time says she doesn't mind spoilers, so I'm gonna say advance spoilers are fine unless we have more first-time readers jump on who request otherwise.

I'll put up the first post next week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday, for "Part 1: The Journey."

ETA: It looks like you can get Watership Down in ebook from all the usual online retailers, although it's appallingly expensive because of course it is. My version is the old 1970s paperback with the monochrome rabbit cover and tinted paperback edges. I think there's a distinct possibility it's the same one we had when I was a kid and I stole it when I left home.