Since the NM copy I picked up a while ago was missing stickers, I was sadly trolling ebay for another copy to frankenstien from when I found (and mashed BIN so hard I think I broke my mouse) this:

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mbassoc2003 wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Which mechs come in that?
I assume you get two, and 12 or 16 mech sheets, and you were then meant to use them as proxies?
Which map boards?

Shadowhawk and Griffin.  I dont know what they intended, they dont come with bases (the feet are pretty big though).  Might be entertaining to play one game that way but would probably get annoying pretty quick.

I never thought to compare the maps.  The "Driods maps are paper and one sided while the first ed Battletech ones are doublesided (one side blank hexes) and heavy cardboard.  The terrain is identical, but the art is a bit more detailed on the cardboard version.  The 'Driods version is embossed with "Battledriods" in bright red across the bottom, while the other has "Battletech" in black.

agreeded.. origioaln drawing? it should be green like the rest I believe..

Brette:)

sauromatian wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:

Guy Fullerton wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:This is the infamous butcher cover. Carefully peel it back to reveal the original banned cover, depicting Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone wearing bloodstained white smocks & holding dismembered plastic dolls. It was made around the same time they raised controversy for saying that fantasy wargaming was bigger than Jesus.

Ha! You didn't see the papers around here a few years later when the scare stories really took off.
Might be some time before we get Beatles-style valuations, though? :p

Occam did the dismembering, of course;



(camera flash on ink again, apologies)

I'd've kicked myself if I'd missed that second time around after such a long wait.
Not much "RPG" cover art still around from that time or before, plus Alan was a favorite SF artist of mine, too; always happy to help out on the fan-side as well as for professional publications.
Looking in, he must've felt a bit like Prof. Barker did States-side with all those youngsters around hyping a new hobby, except that Alan was six years older than Phil - take a peek back at the WD#3 cover and remind yourself that's a 54 year old fan artist at work in a "totally new" hobby domain, gridded floor and all!

stratochamp wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:its been a long time (30 years) since i last looked at my brother-in-law's copy of dynasty, but i would not have thought of calling it an rpg. personally i really like lawrence schick's definition in heroic worlds of "quantified interactive storytelling".

*g* I don't recall using "RPG" even in quotes, given the reactions from some of our more prickly community members to any suggestions that D&D wasn't the first roleplaying game rather than containing particular paradigms within that domain which were influential and indeed dominant for a time.

By Schick's definition, Curtis, Colwill and Blake, for example, would be earlier by a good margin, without the additional riders required to ensure D&D has primacy, if there's deemed to be value in playing that "game". (Don't think I had an answer from Svenny as to quite how that recalled name got mixed up in the Braunstein chronology).

Lucky brother-in-law to have a copy of Dynasty just lying around. Did they/you ever try playing it!

Finally caught one of my great white whales.

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I've had the Kasar-Khan portfolio for a while, but hadn't seen the box set come up in years.  Now if only there was a way to pick up CDM-5.  

faro wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread: I don't recall using "RPG" even in quotes, given the reactions from some of our more prickly community members to any suggestions that D&D wasn't the first roleplaying game rather than containing particular paradigms within that domain which were influential and indeed dominant for a time.

I've been collecting something similar recently, occult-themed "games" from the 1960s. The Golden Magazine for Boys and Girls (Jan. 1969) describes three of the most popular examples.

Harold Ramis' Ghostbusters looks a lot like Kreskin's ESP boardgame from 1966. There's Egon Spengler on the cover, plus you can act out Bill Murray's first scene of the movie with the cards (impressionable co-ed not included). Now that Ramis himself is a bona fide ghost, you can hold a seance to ask him how this game may have influenced the development of D&D.  Or you can just read the instructions, which lay out a scoring system not unlike D&D psionics.

Also in the article are Jeanne Dixon's Game of Destiny, & of course the Ouija board. Like Diplomacy & Dynasty, they break the mold of what a game is supposed to be, taking the concept more into the direction of the modern RPG. Works like Playing at the World have scratched the surface, but there is more to be found in the 1960s era.

Thunderdave wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Even rarer than second-hand Cthulhu or MERP, in my experience, here was a fun local find... a local super re-claimed an abondoned locker and had all these WFRPG goodies that needed a home... bargain

As long as the handouts in the back of each aren't cut, that's quite a nice group.