I’ve just finished reading
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean. It’s outstanding in every way, a masterpiece.
If you haven't already read it, I would heavily suggest reading the Neil Gaiman graphic novel Black Orchid.
It's another Dave McKean piece - written at the same time & releaed within a few months of Arkham Asylum. In a lot of ways the two comics complement each other. AA shines as an examination of villains, whereas Black Orchid is an examination of heroes - though it breaks a lot of the narrative rules of superhero comics.
@SJohnRoss It seems to be getting great reviews, but I'm a little distrustful of ttrpg reviews. Too many of them discuss the way the book is laid out and the quality of the writing and the art, and too few start with "we ran this rpg and this is what we found".
General question: if you were considering running a play by email game of Glen Cook's Black Company series designed to replace the Books of the South, what would you use as a game engine?
I know Green Ronin did a d20 adaptation but it's wildly out of print, and I'm not sure how well d20 translates to the grittier action of the books.
@SubplotKudzu Band of Blades is a version of Blades in the Dark that's adapted to be extremely close to the Black Company set-up. I haven't played a game by email, so I'm not sure how a BITD hack would work in that format, but in terms of tone, character types and scenarios, it's already very close.
@SubplotKudzu@kensanata "translation to e-mail experience" - this would be my primary concern. I'm not sure the structure of a BITD hack would work well, considering that it's divided into phases of differing intensity - between missions and downtime. It would take some thought.