A little background just for the hell of it: I first came in contact with Ewen Cluney’s work circa 1999 or so. I was hunting for a bootleg of White Wolf’s Street Fighter RPG to mash up with Vampire: The Masquerade for a game tourney one-off. (The island fighting tourney was being run by a […]
Final Stand is a 2002 RPG by Tim Denee (iTim on RPG.net) inspired by Hong Kong action movies & I suspect a little bit by video games like King of Fighters, Virtua Fighter, Streets of Rage & so on. Our heroes are martial arts masters who band together to fight the Doom (whose exact nature […]
So. Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear – to be more specific 1999. Chris Pramas produced a jewel of a D&D adaptation in the days just barely before the appearance of the OGL 1.0 (pours a 40 of mead on the cobbles). It was Dragonfist, a wuxia action game with a […]
This was supposed to be the character for yesterday, January 8. But as you’ll soon see, the sheer tangle of chargen rules I had to fight through kept this going so long I only finished this morning. The game for day eight is Dog Town, an RPG of gritty street-level crime based on 1970s thrillers […]
Dragon Magazine issue #47 included, among the usual assortment of new magic items & material for handling unusual edge cases – effects of being on an Elemental Plane on magic items, searching for stuff on the Astral Plane – a very short but complete roleplaying game by none other than Dave “Zeb” Cook. It was […]
Made it six days in before the plan went sideways, which may be a new personal best. I had intended this to be All Flesh Must Be Eaten day. Then I looked at the PDF & discovered I had nabbed a quickstart with a bunch of pregens in it, not the actual character creation rules. […]
Howdy pardners. The GDi games are headed for the last roundup today, as we crack open Coyote Trail. No surprises, it’s the Western incarnation of the system. The character creation system is virtually identical to the other games. One fairly delightful bit of customization, though, is the damage track. In addition to levels of Fatigue […]
Today’s game is another Precis Intermedia joint. This time it’s the sci-fi actioner Hard Nova ][, a game of fast-moving dodgy exploits across the galaxy. The setting is a bit Star Frontiers-y with its United Sovereign Worlds & human centricity but the general feel smacks equally of literary SF heists in the Stainless Steel Rat […]
Today’s game is the first in a suite of games put out by the publisher now known as Precis Intermedia in the early 00s that made use of the GD-i system. GD stood for “genreDiversion” & that’s exactly what they were shooting for: to emulate various genres of pop fiction. We’re starting with the first […]
Today’s game is the 2008 remaster of Dragon Warriors, a British RPG of the mid 80s that first appeared in the form of six Fighting Fantasy sized game books. The revised & updated edition brought the game together in a single book. It’s a super flavorful game, often described at the time as “the Robin […]
Rummaging In The Junk Drawer 