System Mastery Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor
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- Leisure
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Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games
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272 - City of Heroes Playtest
Gather up, all you various tankers, scrapper, controllers, uhhh... that healer one... I'm just kidding I loved this game. It's City of Heroes, sort of! Insofar as it's a Unisystem take on the popular superhero MMO. Some of one. This is just an old playtest doc. We talk about why and what and all the rest today!
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271 - Active Exploits
This was a tough read. Active Exploits is more of a toolkit than a game, but despite basically having every possible tool any kit could ever have, especially for a diceless engine, we still just aren't seeing how the numbers line up. But hey, who knows, right?
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270 - Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game
I think... I think this is all of them? If you count the review of the Multiverse pre-test (we've skimmed the final version, it's pretty close), then yeah, this is the last of the Marvel licensed RPGs we hadn't covered yet. Saga edition, with the card deck and one of the two diceless systems. Is it cool? Will it Marvel? Do we have to start tracking down DC games now?
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269 - Strike!
This one is a little near and dear to us, we've used it to run Blimpleggers content in the past! Strike! is an RPG that sort of combines the very abstracted narrative structure of a FATE style game with the tactical grid combat of a 4e D&D style game, and for the most part, it works. Let's talk about how!
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268 - Crime Scene Police Investigation
Starting the year off the right way, with a shovelware-style OGL game about playing as real cops. Real boring cops.
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267 - Mörk Borg
Whoa, the art and layout in this thing is cool! What about the rest of it? Is it also cool? Can love bloom on the retroclone-style battlefield? Well, let's read it and find out.
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Customer Reviews
Funny Reviews of Out of Print RPGs
All the news you can’t use about old, usually bad tabletop RPGs! I came for the reviews and stayed for the humor.
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Kinda boring
When they don’t like a game, they nitpick the grammar for an hour and a half. When they do like a game, they regurgitate the book from beginning to end like they’re reading the Wikipedia page.