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 →
Character A Day, Day One Original D&D Well, one of those challenges is going around where you make a character a day in a different gaming system for December. I don’t have to stick my head in an ice bucket, … Continue reading →
The Handbook of Traps And Tricks IV The Voyage Gnome (No Gnomes Involved) Welcome, one and… one, probably…. to the fourth part of my exploration of the Handbook of Traps and Tricks by Dragon Tree! In the prior part, we … Continue reading →