MShipley88 wrote:I think that makes #666...RPGNow...the Anti-Christ.
Deadlord36 wrote:Was Quag Keep any good?
MShipley88 wrote:Deadlord36 wrote:Was Quag Keep any good?Andre Norton's Quag Keep dates from the era when role-playing games themselves were an interesting new idea (like Ronna Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters was also a cash in on the idea...although her's was more noxious).The short answer is: NoMark
harami2000 wrote:MShipley88 wrote:Andre Norton's Quag Keep dates from the era when role-playing games themselves were an interesting new idea (like Ronna Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters was also a cash in on the idea...although her's was more noxious).The short answer is: NoMarkI'll defend part-way at least.Middling-average perhaps IIRC (especially in a modern context), but Andre had no need to "cash in on the idea" and the D&D fan base was hardly huge at the time. Another Witch World book would probably have made her as much, if not more money.In fact, it was Gary who tacitly or otherwise encouraged the book; being a fan of hers, he sent her the Monster Manual- and possibly others before and later?- when those came out and they presumably had a degree of correspondence: she returned the compliment by writing a Greyhawk novel.There was a 3 year gap between Quag Keep (early 1978) and Mazes and Monsters (mid 1981) which also places the two works a large distance apart in terms of RPG writing chronology, IMHO.=Regarding role-playing games themselves being an "interesting new idea", Arthur C. Clarke's "The City and the Stars" (1956) pre-dates EGG by a decade and a half, and leaps far ahead of Gary's thoughts on the subject even in the later 1970s.
MShipley88 wrote:Andre Norton's Quag Keep dates from the era when role-playing games themselves were an interesting new idea (like Ronna Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters was also a cash in on the idea...although her's was more noxious).The short answer is: NoMark
bclarkie wrote:I have a stupid question and rather than create a new thread, I decided to put this here. The old TSR game Metamorphisi Alpha, did this come in a box set or was it a stand alone booklet?? Any help would be much appreciated.
mbassoc2003 wrote:bclarkie wrote:I have a stupid question and rather than create a new thread, I decided to put this here. The old TSR game Metamorphisi Alpha, did this come in a box set or was it a stand alone booklet?? Any help would be much appreciated. I was just a booklet. It has a tear out sheet at the back. Gamma World came as a boxed set though.
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killjoy32 wrote:congrats to jeff and stephen on winning them character archaics!!!was very tempted to go for one of them, but i am just in the midst of spending my $ so good one to the both of you Al
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Plaag wrote:Am sure this has been seen, but thought to post this anyway. Having dug this out to scan, I came upon this Gygax Introduction for the Mayfair CSIO..http://tinypic.com/k9gnkx.jpgAs you can see Gygax talks about the brown boxes (woodgrain) stick on labels, and a handful of reference sheets, etc...ShaneG.
afoolandhis$ wrote:Plaag wrote:Am sure this has been seen, but thought to post this anyway. Having dug this out to scan, I came upon this Gygax Introduction for the Mayfair CSIO..http://tinypic.com/k9gnkx.jpgAs you can see Gygax talks about the brown boxes (woodgrain) stick on labels, and a handful of reference sheets, etc...ShaneG.Thanks for that post, Shane. It's interesting that Gygax says "City-State was the first approved "module" for the D&D game system, in practical terms".
afoolandhis$ wrote:bclarkie wrote:There is a difference between Old Milwaukee and Milwakee's Best(aka "the Beast"). The Beast is actually produced by none other than Miller. Truth be told though, if it wasn't for The Beast being sold at a cost of $8.60 w/tax(yes thats right I remember it to the penny ) per case, both my high school and college years would have been much less eventful. Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best, Grainbelt, you name it, if it was under $10 a case, we drank it....
bclarkie wrote:There is a difference between Old Milwaukee and Milwakee's Best(aka "the Beast"). The Beast is actually produced by none other than Miller. Truth be told though, if it wasn't for The Beast being sold at a cost of $8.60 w/tax(yes thats right I remember it to the penny ) per case, both my high school and college years would have been much less eventful.