Sotterraneo wrote:I have recently acquired a copy of the Metamorphosis Alpha booklet (well, the second ever RPG after D&D deserved some money thrown at it...)   . Was the booklet sold separately from the box? Did any MA boxed edition exist at the time? I noticed a $ 5.00 price printed on the cover, so I think it was sold separately but just to be on the safe side...  

The booklet was sold on its own.  $5 was the original cover price, so that tag is probably pretty old.  There was no box with this version of MA.

Sotterraneo wrote:
This version? Were there other editions of MA (Gamma World excluded)?

No.  Gamma World is what I meant by "this version".

grodog wrote:There was a  Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega edition from TSR at some point in the 90s (I think), but IIRC it was a GW-oriented version of MA???  



Fast Foward Ent. (Jim Ward's current d20 company) also released MA 3rd edition earlier this year.

Alpha to Omega was a supplement/game for the "Amazing Engine" system by TSR.  It was basically the same story, but not as... confusing.  Neat source for a dead game.

From everything I've read about it, the new edition of the game isn't nearly the same feel, environment, etc.  FF released one version where you could play a robot only, but I don't know if Jim Ward has since gotten around to releasing the rest of the rules.

I had a chance to speak with Jim briefly at RockCon two weekends ago, and he was still working on the big, full-scale hardcover edition of Metamorphosis Alpha. It will use the 3d6 system he developed for the 25th Anniversary Edition (the FFE edition). Didn't get a chance to ask whether it would return to the original style of play or continue with the style from the 25thA edition, in which you played multiple characters from different factions and such... an oddity, and as mentioned by BadMike, too skimpy to use, really. I much prefer the classic "wahoo" style.

Jim said he hopes to have it out sometime in early to mid-2006, IIRC.