Another old RPG book review. You know what to do: read it if you like, or skip it if you don’t. This time, I’m looking at The Mutant Experience supplement for Paranoia XP edition.
Reading Paranoia XP: The Mutant Experience
Month: January 2025
Reading Paranoia XP: STUFF and STUFF 2: The Gray Subnets
I’ve been working my way through the collection of Paranoia XP gamebooks I amassed in 2017: this is a review of the pair of volumes titled Stuff and Stuff 2: The Gray Subnets. If that interests you, continue on. If you’re not interested in an old line of a cult-classic RPG, you may wish to skip this post. This time, I’m covering Stuff and Stuff 2: The Gray Subnets, the supplementary equipment books for the Paranoia XP line.
Reading Paranoia XP: The Traitor’s Manual
Back with another review of an old RPG book. If that interests you, check it out, otherwise feel free to skip it. This time, I’m looking at the Traitor’s Manual.
Reading Paranoia XP: Service, Service!
This is another review of a Paranoia XP book, for those interested. If you’re not, well… skip it! This time, I’m covering the expanded Service Group options for the XP setting, dealt with in Service, Service!
Reading Paranoia XP: Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Alpha Complex and The Little Red Book
This is another review of a Paranoia XP book, for those interested. If you’re not interested in a review of a 20-year old game book, well… skip it! In this case, I’ll be discussing the two smaller (mostly) playing-facing supplements for Paranoia.
Reading Paranoia XP: The GM Screen, Mission Blender, and Mandatory Mission Pack
This is another review of a couple of Paranoia XP products, for those interested. If you’re not, well… skip it! This time, I’m covering the GM Screen and Mission Blender booklet, along with the Mandatory Mission Pack book.
Reading Paranoia XP: Paranoia [XP], Service Pack 1 (Core Rulebook)
This is a review of the core rulebook for Paranoia XP, a pretty old game line that I have some interest in, shared for those who are interested. If you’re not, well… skip it!
Series: Paranoia XP Reviews, Book-by-Book
A while back, I became fascinated with the classic RPG Paranoia. I’d seen advertisements for it in Dragon as a kid, and been curious, but of course it’d never been easily available where I lived as a kid. Well, in 2017, I ended up picking up everything in the “XP” line while it was still available—barely—through various online sellers. (The core book had gone way up in price, and a few supplements were so rare it took me a while to track down copies. Indeed, I was only able to get the Little Red Book by trading a module with …
WIP: Unnamed Verses IV
One more update on my WIP—another accountability post. I’m proud to say I maintained my pace of drafting one poem a day, and have what I think might be a complete draft. I’m not 100% sure it’s complete: there might still be room for a few more little singlet poems in there among the several linked-long-poems. I have some revising and editing to do, of course, but right now I’m just happy at having finally competed a creative writing project of this scope. In the end, it took 70 individual poems to explore what I wanted to. Some are narrative, …
WIP: Unnamed Verses III
This is another update on my WIP, mostly intended as an accountability post. I’ve kept up my work on the project, and have hit 58 poems. I thought I would be finished in a couple of weeks, but one of the poems I thought would be shorter ended up being a very formal experiment in internal rhymes, which is very tricky, and also ended up unexpectedly expanding into a long poem with multiple parts: of my 58 pieces, six are sections of this newly-extended poem. So… if I keep up my current pace, I probably have ten days more of …