Calithena wrote:Well, I figure if they're old and they have demons and magic, I'll enjoy them. I know a fair amount about early gaming stuff and somehow these slipped under my radar screen, so I guess I was mostly curious about historical stuff. Afterglow's list tells some of that but then some of the guys who wrote for Little Soldier/Phoenix also wrote for Rider Fantasy Creations so I'm just curious about this little corner of ancient rpg history.
Calithena wrote:Well, I figure if they're old and they have demons and magic, I'll enjoy them. I know a fair amount about early gaming stuff and somehow these slipped under my radar screen, so I guess I was mostly curious about historical stuff. Afterglow's list tells some of that but then some of the guys who wrote for Little Soldier/Phoenix also wrote for Rider Fantasy Creations so I'm just curious about this little corner of ancient rpg history.Chess - yeah, after my Ars Magica and WFRP campaigns wrapped up in the early nineties I hung up roleplaying for about five years and played chess instead. I got to the A player level but hadn't lost to a non-master in over two years when I quit playing - won two local tournaments with experts playing in them too. I wrote a chess column for a state magazine for a while. It's a beautiful game but I do logical/analytic stuff for a living and ultimately I decided to go back to roleplaying because I needed not to be calculating all the time in every aspect of my life. With apologies to David Bronstein and Mikhail Tal, roleplaying gives wider scope to wonder.