Thessaly Chance Tracy Needs to Author More Stuff

 Well Thessaly Chance Tracy has finished the third work in what we at the PeryPub figure will be a trilogy. I have to say that I have become quite the fan of her writing since last January when I first started reading her stuff and working to get it published. Thanks to her rather ballsy move to work through us rather than more official T&T channels, I've gotten to think in that game system again as well really delve into the tales contained in the notes from her Hylax campaign. While I still read what's coming out from the T&T industrial complex, I have been doing my own thing long enough that it was getting a little distant to me.

There is loose, yet a strong logic to everything being encountered. Thess has taken some of the tone of the T&T/Monsters! Monsters! that was silly and returned it as a strength to the brand. Not ashamed of pun humor and off-color jokes, she knows how to move the story moving through the characters and encounters listed. The loose format of the rules matrix allows her to explore very non-standard monsters in some details highlighting elements of those rules that are being applied. This is much like many "new" gonzo games, but doesn't shift out of swords and sorcery trappings, well maybe a little steampunk here and there. It just takes more paragraphs by the writer not entire books by entire companies to make it happen.
The tone of each work that I've read stays consistent with its premise enhancing the style of gaming that most delvers, tunnel explorers not dungeon crawlers, like. And that low-brow high fantasy can take on a whole world of its own from adventure to adventure, yet feels like the same campaign.

The one piece I like the best from her isn't even set in her massive Dry Gulch Reservation setting. Her little Halloween piece "Castle Van Hexxen" is one of the better sword-carrying horror crawls I have ever read. You really will feel the gothic horror expressed just as you read through it. I think I am going to make a point to run it this upcoming August through Halloween, that's how much I like it.

So her works are through my publishing company, as said before, but I'd recommend them even if they weren't.