HermitFromPluto wrote:As it takes so long to settle on one side, why not actually play golf with it. You could roleplay and work on your handicap at the same time.
HermitFromPluto wrote:I picked up a copy of RuneQuest: Eldarad the Lost City, not perturbed by the less than shining reveiw:http://www.glorantha.info/runequest/ava ... darad.htmlI thought it can't be that bad. It is!
gyg wrote:XL1 Quest for the Heartstone.
bombadil wrote:Would the 100-sided percentile die qualify? I got one in a lot I won on ebay. It's like a fricken' golf ball.
VermilionFire wrote:I can't believe the author of Under the Storm Giant's Castle actually tried to defend it. Book of Treasure Maps had a goofy cover but some good mini-adventures inside. Matthias (afterglow) is alive and well as of a year ago. He's just been really busy with work and life, and unable to check in on the Acaeum community. He still has his collection and is not looking to sell. I've never read Tower of Ullision... now I'll have to dig it out some time. Might be fun to run on an April Fool's Day session.
FormCritic wrote:I have been struck by how small the world has become. A comment on a Post-It note crossed time and space to reach the original author. My own modest research has shown me how interconnected the game collecting community really is. When I first heard of Under The Storm Giant's Castle, back in high school, I had no idea that I would eventually correspond with both the author and other collectors who would also both love and deride that publication.The internet is a strange and mysterious sea with many perilous and interesting shores. A mariner who goes sailing there is apt to find or solve a few mysteries of his own. This story is a good example.Mark
Keir wrote:Hmmm... I always thought RuneQuest itself was a bit of a joke.
red_dawn wrote:I'm not the only one who thinks that?For me there was always a disconnect: On one hand you had those gamers who claimed RQ was the ~serious~ alternative to D&D, yet so many RQ adventures were based around talking ducks, squirrels, bears, etc.
In fairness, the ducks are actually a really tiny and insignificant part of Glorantha. One small tribe in one small country. Letting them ruin your enjoyment of Glorantha is like letting, I don;t know, the crappy lifts at Elephant & Castle tube station ruin the whole of London for you.I don't like ducks, so I just ignore them and get on with enjoying the bits of Glorantha that I do like.
HermitFromPluto wrote:I've never played RQ. I am picking up the odd item from time to time as I collect Avalon Hill games. But, the lost city of Eldarad is giving me much joy. Every time I look at it I laugh - it's so bad. If I have talking squirrels to look forward to, I'm going to try to buy more - I love products that are so bad they are funny!
Traveller wrote:Sheet Phantoms anyone?
And ducks as characters aren't any worse than about half the creatures in the Fiend Folio....
Traveller wrote:We BOTH missed the boat.FLUMPH!'Nuff said.
jasonw1239 wrote:My vote would be the 1978 Chaosium publication of 'Real Magic' by Isaac Bonewits. The picture of the goofball author looking 'pompous' complete with pipe clenched between his teeth is hilarious.It was no doubt items like this that helped feed the late 70's early 80's D&D=Satanism hysteria...