I finally sat down and began reading Johnstone Metzger’s Adventures on Dungeon Planet. Geez, I just. I’m astounded. I am filled with so much joy that reminds me of the sheer awe I experienced the first time I read John Carter under the sheets with a flashlight as a child. Reading this, I feel like a kid again, and it’s amazing.
I hate using the term “love-letter,” it just seems so forced and honestly a little hokey and cheesy. But Dungeon Planet is a love-letter to the pulpy swords and planet books I grew up loving and reading.
If you don’t have this book, go pick it up, either in print or pdf, it’s probably my favorite addition to DW that I’ve read thus far!
It’s an amazing book! Funny that I caught this post right in the middle of posting for a Dungeon Planet PbP I’m running. And one of the characters that belongs to Richard Robertson – a Human Mutant named Othello – just performed that John Carter of Mars leap over several high piles of burning space wreckage after the players crash landed on the planet. This is all just the start of the first session too, by the way. 🙂
Two Bots, Two Bods and a Six-Armed Ape is the current title for it.
Amazing Misha Polonsky! I think if I ever get around to playing Dungeon Planet (I normally DM games) I’d play the Earthling and just be John Carter or Adam Strange. Oh man…
Well, Sorcerer Blob if you’re into PbP (play by post) style gaming… even though the game JUST started… we could add space for one more if you’d like to join us? Unfortunately, we already have an Earthling, Mutant, Technician, EoD, and a White Ape Wizard. 🙂 But it’s not too late to join in. My other DW game is at 6 players, and this one’s only at 5.
It’s a very nice book in print. My copy just arrived today.