Category Archives: Characters

Characters from the many RPGs I own. An exercise in working through the rules while making sarcastic comments.

Cyborg Commando 2.0 MOAR CAPS

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Lizard

CYBORG COMMANDO The Epic Saga Continues CAPS STILL NOT OPTIONAL Welcome back! I know, even for me, this was a long time between updates, but I’ve been: Roll Activity 01-30 Ranting on the D&D Next boards 31-80 Ranting on the … Continue reading →

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Cyborg Commando

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Lizard

CYBORG COMMANDO (All-Caps NOT OPTIONAL) (Not Gary Gygax’s Finest Hour… Or  Week… Or Year…) So, what happens to an iconic creator when, for various reasons, he can no longer work on the products that made him so iconic? Well, he … Continue reading →

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Alma Mater, Sophomore Year

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Lizard

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 →

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Alma Mater

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Lizard

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 →

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The History Of The Universe (Abridged)

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Lizard

So, off and on, I have been working on Stellar Warriors, which is turning into the mega space opera game I’ve had as a “thing to do” pretty much since I discovered gaming back in 1978. After toying with several … Continue reading →

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EXTERMINATE!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Lizard

The tagline of this site is “Old School Attitude, Modern Rules”. (Not, as some would have it, “Updates on a roll of 18+ on 2D10″) A big part of the feel of “Old School” is “Anything that’s cool is included”, … Continue reading →

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Rango As Post Apocalyptic Setting

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Lizard

So, the spousal unit and I just returned from Rango, a film where I greatly suspect a huge chunk of the script consisted of “Let Johnny Depp do something for 45 seconds, then go to next line.” While, obviously, I … Continue reading →

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Battlelords Of The Twenty-Third Century, Part 2

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Lizard

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 →

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Battlelords Of The Twenty-Third Century

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Lizard

“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 →

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Chivalry & Sorcery & Eyestrain, Part III

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Lizard

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 →

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