Character A Day, Day Eleven Diana, Warrior Princess I Couldn’t Find “Justifiers” So that makes two games I know I own that I have been unable to find. The last time this happened, it turned out two full boxes of … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Ten WEG Star Wars Honestly, Not Picked Because of Disney’s Announcements So, some things: Today’s slice of time is really short, so I needed something very rules-light. And the original WEG (West End Games) Star Wars … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Nine Marvel Super Heroes Probably TSR’s Most Successful License Here we are, day nine. I ended up picking Marvel Super Heroes, or MSH, by a slightly roundabout route, namely, I was thinking of some of my … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Eight Mörk Borg Apparently, Not About Robin Williams Assimilating People So, we lurch suddenly forward from the late 70s/early 80s where the rest of these article have clustered, into the new-retro-new-old-school age of… Mork Borg. There’s … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Seven The Fantasy Trip Magic Mushrooms/Black Light Posters/Lava Lamps Not Required So, here we are at day seven. Still kind of sticking with the old stuff, though I am using the newly-reprinted edition of TFT (That’s … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Six James Bond 007 No, Mr. Bond. I Expect You To Fail Your Save. (I Don’t Know If This Game Has Saves. I Have Had This For Two Decades And Just Opened The Book Today. Box … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Five Monsters! Monsters! I Got Yer Grimdark Gothic Emo RPG Right Here, Pal Fifteen years or so before “Vampire”, and a mere two years after “Brown Box” OD&D, Metagaming published “Monsters! Monsters!”, the game where you … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Four Cyberpunk 2013 Of Course, It Was Just ‘Cyberpunk’ Then I’d originally planned to do Villains & Vigilantes first edition, following in the spirit of my prior entries with another game that I played in my … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Three Metamorphosis Alpha There’s two reasons this is my third pick. First, it’s the third RPG I ever created a character for, following D&D and Traveller. (Beyond this, it gets hazy, because I quickly started acquiring … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Two Traveller 1977 This was the second RPG I ever created a character for. There were many mildly variant printings over the years, not even counting major revisions like MegaTraveller or TNE. So for nostalgia’s sake, … Continue reading →