What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfictionĪs the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.Īge of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.įrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. It is a silver seller at drivethru and had a succesful kickstarter, so there must be people out there who at least own it.Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Googling Age of Ambition, I also couldn't find any review of it, which is really weird. Art and layout are a little neither here nor there, as far as I am concerned - not as shiny as 5e or the stuff by Kobold Press or Green Ronin on the one hand and not as punk-rock as Troika or Mothership, but really, I don't think of me as a person who judges an rpg by its layout. The rules look like serviceable light- to medium crunch fare, which is usually just right for me, and though they use cards instead of dice, that also seems to make sense and doesn't feel gimmicky. What I've read was well-written, the settings feel well thought-through and rich in interesting conflicts to engage the players. I used to own the Expanse-style scifi rpg 'Shadows over Sol' and the campaign 'Siren's Call' for it and kind of regret selling them off, I was totally stoked for 'Age of Ambition' - a late renaissance inspired fantasy RPG with themes of social progress set in a actually pretty weird fantasy world with original concepts for magic and interesting twists on the classic fantasy ancestries, what's not to love? - but in the end, I only ever read the quickstarters (cursory) and never tried to get a game going with either.

I've been eyeing the RPG's 'Shadows over Sol' and 'Age of Ambition' for a few years now, because both seem totally up my ally.

Age of ambition