What’s not speculation Ben’s one of us he’s a tabletop gamer. Just how much of “there’s an RPG coming” did Aaronovitch know and react to while writing False Value? I learned that he specifically wanted Chaosium’s BRP, the Basic Roleplaying System, the stuff of Call of Cthulhu, for Rivers of London. I got to interview Ben over Zoom on a lockdown Friday night. Those recruits are our Player Characters. Until that point, the book’s police characters, DCI Thomas Nightingale and PC Peter Grant, start the groundwork for recruiting members of the Special Assessment Unit. The timeline is important and makes sense. The news that Rivers of London was getting an RPG broke in 2019. In particular, Rivers of London is set after False Value, the 8th book in the series, published in 2020. I doubt I’m alone, and there’s a small risk. I want it to feel like my Rivers of London, but I don’t want it to ruin the series for me. As a result, I’ve a particular interest in Chaosium’s new Rivers of London tabletop RPG.
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