August 28

#RPGaDAY Day 28: Scariest Game you’ve played

The scariest game I ever played in was the old Game Designers Workshop classic Dark Conspiracy 1st Edition.  A near future horror game involving all sorts of strange going ons but tied together with a relatively consistent background.

I vividly remember this one game session becoming more and more engrossed with the atmosphere being set by the GM that it became almost like being hypnotised; our collective consciousness focussing on his voice more and more until someone in the house banged a door which made us all jump out of our seats.

I’ve never experienced anything like that since.

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August 27

#RPGaDAY Day 5: Most Old School RPG owned

The classic red box D&D is the most old school game I have.  This is the one that I really got to read and make my decisions about gaming.  Sure I had the AD&D players handbook but there were all sorts of other books required whereas the red box had it all in one package.

I even have the stub of crayon and dice that came in the box 🙂

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August 27

#RPGaDAY Day 27: Game You’d like to see a new / improved edition of…

I’d love to see a second edition of Torg, there was a promised Torg 2.0 announced a while ago but that never materialised which is a great shame.

If I was to redo the game I’d probably look for a different resolution system but retain all the really cool stuff like the Drama Deck and possibility energies.  You could also tidy up some of the loose ends like ords which shouldn’t really be able to operate outside of their cosms and give the Possibility War  a proper ending.

It was one of those games of the period and I still love it after all these years.

I suppose you could reboot the game using FATE or even Savage Worlds but I don’t have the time or energy to do such a conversion.

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August 26

#RPGaDAY Day 26: Coolest character sheet

For as long as I have gamed, there have been character sheets of varying qualities and rapid advancements in modern technology means it is very easy to grab a downloadable copy of a character sheet.  So I’m going to limit myself to official character sheets and the best looking sheet I ever saw for purchase could be found in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay character pack.

This product contained fifty printed sheets on a pad with all the important stuff on it and a wonderful supplement that enabled you to create a background for the character by rolling on several charts.  A fun addition to the rather dry character creation process.

 

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August 25

#RPGaDAY Day 4: Most recent RPG purchase

The last RPG I bought was the One Roll Engine from Bundle of Holding. A collection of books and supplements using the One Roll Engine system.

I guess I really wanted it for the Better Angels RPG, a game where you play a supervillian granted their powers after they struck a deal with a demon.  Character creation is co-operative and sees you create not only your villain but also influencing the demon of another player character.

 

 

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August 25

#RPGaDAY Day 25: Favourite RPG no one else wants to play

In some ways I consider myself lucky with the players I have gamed with over the years as there have been very few refusals on what to play and eventually even All Flesh Must Be Eaten got played.

Of the games I have to hand only Battlestar Galactica has yet to be run and enjoyed by my friends. I think the reason is that at the heart of the game it has a military hierarchy which can cause headaches on its own, let alone dealing with a dwindling population count.

 

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August 24

#RPGaDAY 24th: Most Complicated RPG Owned

When I started gaming I was all up for the complicated rule systems as I was a fan of the games as being as realistic as possible.

I was going to suggest Phoenix Command but that’s not a proper RPG rather a replacement combat system which leaves me to consider another candidate and I can’t really choose between either of them.

So I guess the most complicated games I own are Earthdawn and The Babylon Project.

Earthdawn.

On first glance the game appears to promise so much in the way of background; which it has in spades and a unique resolution system which is where it gets complicated.  Trying to keep track of all the different values and the different die types is a real pain in the behind.

The Babylon Project.

I loved Babylon 5 and I when I heard of a licensed role-playing game I had to have it, the downside was that at the time it was only published in the US; luckily I was going on holiday to the US that year and tracked a copy down.  The game has nine or ten stats and a very complicated combat system.

 

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August 23

#RPGaDAY Day 23: Coolest looking RPG product / book

As a somewhat veteran gamer who has seen various books from B&W efforts of typesetting through to the early days of DTP packages and the later revolution of full colour books I have seen several games that try to stand out from the crowd.

One or two have caught my eye over the years and I’ve bought them because they look cool, of these my favourite would have to be Trail of Chtulhu by Pelgrane Press.  The whole book just exudes coolness and sets the tone just right for tales of Lovecraftian horror.

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August 23

#RPGaDAY Day 3: First RPG Purchased

The first game I ever purchased was the Marvel Superheroes basic set and I picked this up after seeing various adverts for it in the Marvel comics I was reading at the time.  This wasn’t an easy find especially since I was on holiday at the time.  I seem to remember getting strange looks from the staff at the Virgin store when I bought it and it cost me £12 or so of my holiday money.

The next problem was trying to understand it and then trying very hard to teach my parents and grandparents how to play.  I gave up in the end and had to wait to get home before I could inflict it upon my willing victims, err, friends 🙂

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