Lyme
lymerpg.bsky.social
Lyme
@lymerpg.bsky.social
TTRPG Writer & Game Designer. Known for Dawn of the Orcs, Fear and Panic.
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Of course I post this and immediately I see a post above by @planesailinggames.com listing three very-good non-mashup non-speculative games:
Grey Ranks
Red Carnations on a Black Grave
A Cool and Lonely Courage

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A Cool and Lonely Courage - Plane Sailing Games | DriveThruRPG
It is the Second World War. France has fallen to the Nazis and Churchill needs to disrupt Hitler's war machine. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) recruits women as well as men for combat operatio...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
But at the end of the day, a simple mashup is usually the best elevator pitch, elevator pitch really matters, and it's easier to mash a fantastical element in than a nonfantastical element. In retrospect Velvet Glove is a mashup - crime + teen.
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pure espionage: White Lies, Minutes to Midnight, Covert Ops, James Bond, Top Secret, Mercenaries Spies and Private Eyes, The Spies That Death Forgot!, Wilderness of Mirrors, Cold Shadows, Black Seven, Spy Master, Classified, Agents of SWING, DoubleZero
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And, also, the pure military games: Night Witches, 12:Hours, Twilight 2000, Phoenix Command, The Price of Freedom, Delta Force: America Strikes Back!, about a dozen 80s-era pure military sims I could get from old lists.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And then, also, dozens of crime/gangster/action movie RPGs of varying levels of quality: Gangbusters, Wiseguys, Streets of Bedlam, Dog Town, Crime Network, Haven: City of Violence, Outgunned without some supplements, Cartel, Vice Squad: Miami Nights, Velvet Glove, loads of d20 supplements
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Interpreting this as games that contain no fantastical elements:
-Rosewood Abbey
-Pasión de las Pasiones
-The Price of Coal
-Good Society
-Star-Crossed (artwork implies genre mashup but text does not)
-Primetime Adventures
-Boot Hill
-Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Free money?
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In modern colloquial English, "ramen" can refer both to the noodles alone and to the noodles served in a broth. When served in a broth, they are a soup. Other varieties of noodle served in broth are also soups.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
An account of the same game played in an earlier decade:
louisewrites.blogspot.com/2009/06/mary...
Mary Poppins versus Cthulhu
I thought I would share a fun little game with you all, it's called Mary Poppins vs. Cthulhu. It's a hero vs. villain / good vs. evil type g...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein vs Chris McKay (Renfield)'s Dracula
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I'd call it, "decimal dice". Maybe d-one-point-zero-zero.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Also, if you have someone with one of the more upper-class English accents, it will probably put me to sleep. This isn't always a bad thing, there are several podcasts I listen to specifically when I have trouble sleeping, but it means I probably won't hear the end of many episodes.
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM