This morning as I was drinking a rather nice Costa Rica coffee (with notes of cherry, yellow fruit and brown sugar according to the notes, and yes I am a coffee snob) that I got from Craft House Coffee, an email arrived from Gamesquest Fulfilment.

They had just posted my physical copy of the Rogue Trooper supplement for the Judge Dredd and the Worlds of 2000 A.D. RPG.

The nice thing about pre-ordering back in August/September (whenever it was made available for pre-orders) from the publisher EN Publishing is that I got the pdf version of the rules immediately after placing the pre-order.

After an initial scan of the pdf, it has sat in my virtual library untouched.

I’ve been a fan of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog (the other supplement introducing classic 2000 A.D. characters so far to the WOIN based system) and Rogue Trooper since their first appearances in 2000 A.D. and Starlord (for Strontium Dog before it merged with 2000 A.D.)

The nice things about these three books that cover three major 2000 A.D. characters is that they represent three very different genres/themes.

Judge Dredd is along with it’s social commentary basically a police procedural. Whilst Strontium Dog with the issues it touches on, is at heart a western. Finally with Rogue Trooper you have your band of brothers war movie.

Sadly for me these three books join a growing pile of RPGs that are not getting to the table.

If the current pandemic hadn’t thrown a major wrench in the works, and I could find interested parties (easier said than done) I could happily be playing/running two sessions a week of non-D&D RPGs.

I suppose I could be doing that now. But I am not a big fan of playing a RPG online. I find them boring to watch (which is an unpopular opinion). And it just doesn’t appeal to me for playing. Plus my main computing device is an iPad Pro and the Roll20’s and Fantasy Grounds of this world are not a brilliant experience on this platform.

In the meantime while I am waiting for things to become safe once more for people to meet up and play games, I can dream and make plans.