For a variety of reasons I’ve spent most of the last several months reading books and other materials for Invisible Sun RPG. This a novella of material outlining some of the aspects of the story background, and providing some illustrative fiction for come of the core ideas for the setting. I have come to really love the setting and the game, and have been very impressed with some of the ideas and elements that have come out for it.

Unfortunately, Monte Cook’s writing is not quite as good as his setting and game design. This was a slog at times. It came together impressively at the end – bits that looked random and awkward in the early sections came to have a good role to play in the narrative, and there were some nice ideas in design and presentation too.

Overall, good, but harder work in places than it needed to be.