OK, boils and ghouls! While I mock games that just copy D&Disms, I also mock games that sacrifice comprehensibility on the altar of originality. For those wondering which side I’m truly on, remember this:Booty And The Beasts, Part IV When … Continue reading →
Gangster! “A Game Of Crime And Punishment” That’s What It Says On The Box, Really. I Guess “A Game Of The Brothers Karamazov” Never Got Out Of Playtest I only know of two games dealing with this topic directly: This … Continue reading →
Boot Hill Because I Realized It’s Been Over A Month Since I Posted Anything And I Drowned My “Have To Skip GenCon and Can’t Get A Refund on My Membership” Sorrow In a Huge Order From Noble Knight Games And … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Seventeen(ish-ish) Decipher’s Star Trek To Boldly Go Where… Lessee… Three Other Systems Had Gone Before (And Another One Will, Too) There was the original Heritage Star Trek. The FASA system, arguably the most successful, and the … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Sixteen(ish) Shadow, Sword, and Spell Another in the “Hey, I’ve had this sitting on the shelf forever, it looks simple enough, let’s give it a go” category. If I recall correctly, it was part of a … Continue reading →
Character A Day, Day Twelve (ish) Justifiers Found It Mixed in With “Adventurer’s Club” And Obscure Traveller Supplements Because I Sort Games By Size, Apparently No Sign of Villains & Vigilantes First Edition, Though. Sigh. First, apologies to both of … Continue reading →
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 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 →
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 →