The 1996 tabletop game Feng Shui had a chapter on car chases, and in the listing of vehicles, out of nowhere, the writer started talking about a car he used to own.
Roll a d20 whenever the party goes anywhere.
1-4: Nothing
5-16: Make everyone roll perception, and if anyone makes it you describe the immediate vicinity in extreme detail for no reason
17-20: Everyone rolls perception, then one or more object in the room is a mimic.
I saved the best for last. This is the Night City sourcebook, the best Cyberpunk book and one of the best city sourcebooks ever made.
Night City is a recently constructed city of the future built on the California cost between San Francisco and LA, by a man conveniently named Richard Night. Its mix of high rises and seedy back alleys, all awash in neon, is the central location for most Cyberpunk adventures.
It has all the stuff you’d expect from a city sourcebook – jam packed with interesting locations, plot seeds and colorful characters. Where Night City exceeds expectation in its presentation. The book is, like many other Cyberpunk books, presented like screens in a dataterm, with little buttons and advertisements and a fabulous isometric map of the downtown. Reading the book, which came out in 1991, is unnervingly like falling into a Wikipedia hole.
I would love this book as a custom tablet app, with working links and the ability to scroll through the map and dig down for the data I am looking for. The format is so good you can see how it would work digitally, just by flipping through the pages. I love this book. When it gets back in print, pick it up.
Nyarlatotep has a thousand masks. They’re all cheap Halloween-style human masks. It just puts them on and insists it’s human, and so far no-one has dared tell the 300ft levitating tentacle-monster otherwise,
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