Perhaps give Watchdogs of Killcade a try?

BTW Don't get me wrong - I've loved all the games I've run this year - but I did want to get S&S in the mix more than I managed. Irritating!

I love this version of Parsool. I particularly like the market with all the cookshops - I often detail food and drink shops in my fantasy games, as well as the usual taverns. As both Alison and I are rather food obsessed I try to distinguish the different food cuisines of fantasy cultures, nothing over the top, but I find that little details about food styles and types of beverage add to a sense of place and build over time so it becomes part of the world.

In my Lemuria anyone drinking Dragon's Blood wine was both a serious drinker and had money. Meeting a patron to discuss a new job in some grotty inn, it was always an indicator of wealth if the employer offered Dragon's Blood in a place that never usually served it. 

As I mentioned in another post, in our Lemurian game I put a lot of work into Parsool but the PCs left the city asap in such a way that they could never go back. A pity.

Also, anyone have any idea when it will hit retail in the UK? (I had to miss the kickstarter.)

I checked on the French website but no new news there.

Why not post the AP and OOC info on the same thread? That way it's easier for readers to match up the two parts of the game experience. That's the approach Andy Slack takes with his Dark Nebula solo game reports on his blog Halfway Station (a Traveller solo play). 

And like Simon, I really looking forward to seeing what trouble these two PCs get into!

I’m finding it hard to write games and develop an updated Heroes of Hellas setting, so I’m taking time off from running games (to recharge the GM batteries – which needs doing) to concentrate on working on my proposed HoH Tyre game. I’m expecting to receive the latest Hanuvar novel by Howard Andrew Jones this week, which will definitely put my mind in a Mediterranean mindset.
 
Sadly, Howard Andrew Jones has been diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, so we may lose the best (in my opinion at least) writer and editor of sword & sorcery currently working in the genre.
 
As for games at our house, my wife Alison has been on fire lately with her 1920s spy games featuring my PC, Reggie Fairfax, who works for a small UK intelligence unit known as the Protocol. Recently, Reggie was helping out MI6 after a White Russian Archduke was assassinated in Paris in a seemingly ‘crime of passion’ affair. An MI6 man who had known Archduke Paul before the Great War admitted that he was a devil with women and treated his mistresses extremely badly. However, this spy – Oswald Rayner – wondered if it was a Soviet hit. The Soviet’s had been after Rayner since 1917, so it was too dangerous for him to go to Paris himself in case it was the Soviets, and as Reggie was based in Paris….
 
So, Reggie spent far too much time drinking vodka with White Russians for a few days, looking into the affair. He finally concluded that it was a crime of passion committed by Princess Olga Orekhov, who had had a brief but unhappy affair with the pig Archduke Paul and whose husband appeared to be a flamboyant homosexual. Reggie felt sorry for the beautiful blonde woman, who seemed desperate for affection (she had been coming on to Reggie), so he invited her around to his flat to tell her he knew she had killed Paul, but that he was not going to tell anyone, and if things developed a certain way, he had champagne on ice…
 
Boy, did I (and Reggie) get it wrong! Princess Olga, her (het