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
Mars wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I was happy to grab this from Noble Knight for $27 - I've been looking for a copy for over 10 years now. They must have forgotten a 0 when entering the price The cover image is great.[ Image ]
webrik33 wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:they've been know to make mistakes like that. they had rob kuntz zayene and plantmaster mods up for auction on ebay one day! they never ever have auctions that i know of. got them for $25. Mint in shrink. was quite pleased