Review: Dreaming Cities
Dreaming Cities is subtitled Tri-Stat Urban Fantasy Genre. I’m not a Tri-Stat player or gamemaster, but I picked the book up at Gencon because I have a certain interest in the genre and, frankly, the price was right. If the price is low enough, I’ll often pick up older game books, even for games I have no intention of ever running, simply to mine them for ideas. It’s worth taking the chance.
I’ve been looking it over for the last month, so the time seems about right to review it.
The Book
Dreaming Cities is a 272-page hardcover of standard size. It credits five authors (Jason L. Blair, Jamais Cascio, Phil Masters, Jo Ramsay, and Liz Rich) and was published by the now-defunct Guardians of Order in 2005. It seems very solidly put together, with a nice, heavy cover. It’s a complete game book, containing rules for the Tri-Stat system along with the urban fantasy elements. Its pages are quite packed; there’s very little interior art (and most, if not all, of that in two-page “splashes”, not interspersed with the text). Additionally, the text is printed in a small font size. Tables are reasonably frequent, helping to break up some of the text.
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