Mecha Hack, Cosmic Dark, Some Kind of Cyberpunk Furry Game?

Heya! Been very busy with life stuff, notably switching from FSSW to doing Instagram and hmm. Other websites... Stuff. You know if you know. I've also got surgeries booked in a week! Which means I'm gonna have less time for running around, martial arts, and generally physical activity stuff so I'm learning to slow down again. 

Which means more time for tRPGs!

I've been playing with a small group of IRL friends lately, similar cast as the Xyntillan campaign (fuck Melan though). One girl is running Graham's new and shiny Cosmic Dark, which is an expansion of Cthulhu Dark with a pre-packaged campaign about the horrrors of Capitalism in Space, which I have...A lot of thoughts about. She's running it very much by-the-book, with a more narrative and (I dunno if we still say that) Storygames-y bend, and it's her first game too! So we're doing the campaign. It's got cool themes, some pretty creepy horror stuff, and I'm enjoying a break from running games all the time which lets me think more about what I'd like to do next and how.

I've also run a single session of the Mecha Hack, using Break the Blockade, one of the many, many one-page missions from the Mecha Hack's Operations Manual extra PDF. It's very good! It plays smoothly, has simple but fun and engaging rules based off the Black Hack, and relies on a single Reactor Die gimmick to replace a lot of the typical complex simulation you see in Mech RPGs without lacking in customization and a lil' bit of grittiness. We kind of just went from really cool battle scene to another over a few hours with two players and it was a blast. Then I completely forgot to setup another session, as one does.

Next I think I want to get back to Cyberpunk 2020, except with Furries because it's 2026 and I can do anything I goddamn want to do. I remember trying to fix this game over so many pages of hacks and house rules, but nowadays I'm wondering if there's really anything that needs fixing... So maybe next step is re-reading CP2020, or at least the original CP2013 booklets which I remember being a bit smoother to run when using the optional rules at the end of Friday Night Firefight.

Anyways. Enough rambling. Next post I'll try and give you something meaty, for now I'm just writing for myself so this isn't getting posted (by me anyways) anywhere.