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 Thirteen(ish) Firefly I Should Post This With Half The Paragraphs Missing And The Rest Out of Order But I Won’t You’re Welcome Firefly is one of those games I snarfed up at GenCon and then didn’t … 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 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 →