Fallen London has been all-a-twitter with revelry, merriment, and scandal. In anticipation of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose starting on “Valentine’s Day,” the editor at The Expurgated London Gazette, a Mister Huffam, Esq., held a competition for couplets about that lovable, winsome Starveling Cat. Congratulations to the winners, who received special VIP passes into [...]
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Echo Bazaar: Is that an ARG in my RPG?
December 19th, 2009 
Jane I joined Echo Bazaar because of a thread on Unfiction about how the Masters of the Bazaar, captains of industry and trade in Fallen London, had twitter feeds. I got hooked because of compelling gameplay, story, and universe-building by the folks at Failbetter Games that I described in the last post, but I want to [...]
Echo Bazaar: A New Kind of RPG?
December 18th, 2009 Jane First off, let me just say: I really HATE browser-based or facebook-based RPGs. I find them horribly boring, repetitive, and tedious. But, Echo Bazaar is … something else. Thanks to AgentLex and Jelloarm for turning me onto this game. Sure, it has all the mechanics of an RPG, like action points with timed refresh, player [...]