Top Secret Index

I picked up a used copy of Top Secret (2nd edition) a little while ago and have been slowly preparing to run a short spy campaign set in the late 1950s... a la the original Ian Fleming Bond novels. One of the first problems I ran into re-reading the ruleset was the lack of an index (a pretty classic problem of these early TSR games). So, I whipped one up as I went along and offer it now for anyone else who may have had the same problem. Later on I will post some more detailed observations of this clunky, but flavorful, old game.

Reading List (year two)

Well, I haven't posted a hell of a lot lately on this blog, but I have been gaming steadily, and I have been reading continuously. Perhaps blogging inspiration will return this year... perhaps not. Anyway, here are the books I read this year with useful game ideas.

• The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (A+)
• Kraken, China Mieville (C-)
• Reamde, Neal Stephenson (A-)
• The Emperor of Dreams, Clark Ashton Smith (B)
• Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (B+)
• The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (C)
• Light, M John Harrison (B+)
• Postsingular, Rudy Rucker (C)
• Hylozoic, Rudy Rucker (D)
• The Gunslinger, Stephen King (C+)
• Drawing of the Three, Stephen King (C-)
• The Waste Lands, Stephen King (C)

I'll try to add actual commentary to these as I go along, beyond just a dorky rating system that simply attempts to quantify how much I liked the book.