Alma Mater, Sophomore Year The Return of Biff Muntz As you may recall, far longer ago than I’d like, I posted Part I of this review and walkthrough, in which I began generating a character for the RPG “Alma Mater”, … Continue reading →
Alma Mater A Review And Walkthrough Alma Mater is one of the better known obscure role playing games of the early 1980s, and once you’re done parsing that, we can move on. Ready? Good. Published in 1982 by Oracle Games … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 7 Featuring An Illustration Not Nearly As Awesome As The Benign Boots, Sorry And Also No Boobies. Boy, This Is Gonna Suck And so, I continue my review of the Necromican (note: Not Necronomicon), a classic late … Continue reading →
Captain Future! And The Space Emperor! As you may recall, yesterday… yes, folks, I am actually writing “tomorrow” what I said I would… (EDIT: As you can tell, it didn’t get finished until a few days later) as opposed to … Continue reading →
Captain Future! And The Futuremen! Part I: Who Is Captain Future? It is extremely easy, in this age of pastiches, homages, parodies, deconstructions, and reconstructions, to lose sight of the source of things. We are a world of second handers … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 6 Featuring What May Be The Best Piece Of Erol Otus Art Ever At Least, Excluding Those That Show Boobies Because Boobies>Everything I’ve got two long 4e articles in draft mode — one on armor and endurance, … Continue reading →
The Necromican Level 5 And so, at long last — and thanks to someone actually asking for it — we get to Level 5 of my walk through the dire and dread pages of the Necromican (note: Not Necronomicon), a … Continue reading →
When last we left our intrepid would-be employee of some future Blackwater, he had just chosen his species — the Eridani, a race of Voldermort-looking dudes (again, in the interest of fairness, I want to stress that Battelords well predates … Continue reading →
“Suddenly, five soldiers in heavy assault armor appeared out of nowhere!” Battlelords Of The Twenty Third century is a game I remember seeing a lot in stores in the early 1990s, but I never picked it up. Recently, I was … Continue reading →
Just The Factors, Ma’am Last week, as you may recall, we left our intrepid heroine with a huge pile of really crappy stats. This week, we feed those crappy stats into a bunch of functions, equations, and what-not to produce … Continue reading →