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?
Guy Fullerton wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:The cover art looks almost ... pasted on. (?) The gap between rectangle top & middle rectangle looks uneven. Ditto for the middle & bottom rectangle.
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.
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.
faro wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Took me rather too long to pick this one up, not exactly helped by postage rates... And as overambitious as it sounds: a socio-economic-political roleplaying worldgame. In a can. In 1969.Roles are not fixed over time: players may attempt to progress their character up or down the social scale into a new role depending on their game strategy or personal goals, but each role must played broad-brush according to the character books provided. More-or-less open-ended interaction above-and-beyond the (borderline unplayable?) game framework appears to be encouraged.Whereas the game itself is not open-ended, there's not necessarily any one "winner" in that the whole world can easily(?) be dragged down into flames and chaos so that no-one can "win". Rather too realistic, perhaps? One blogger's comparison with Kingdom was rather astute, IMO. The canvas map is kinda gorgeous, too... (White box for scale).[ Image ]
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".
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.
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