I thought the Book of Erotic Fantasy and Crushed the Doomed Kitty were weird but I just found our there was a D20 game for Juggalos (fans of Insane Clown Posse) called Pendulums Promise D20.
Anyone here know anything weirder ...
Trail of Cthulhu 2e and Broken Empires
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I always thought Brocosaurus Rex was pretty strange (in a cool way).
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Good catch. I actually used to own that game. I don't know how I missed it.
ReplyDeleteD20 Juggalos?
ReplyDeleteFrickin' dice, how do they work?
You have no idea how big my grin is Pere.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting a slow clap for Pere Ubu: Once for the comment, a second time for his alias.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view the whole oldschool gaming and retroclone rule designing are completely weird. Because there are lot of games (for example odnd) and you don't have to publish n+1 vaersion. Why don't you redesign the original dnd?
ReplyDeleteAll DnD, D20, and retroclones are weird.
I can see your point roleplay. I don't necessarily agree beyond the fact that our entire little hobby is kind of weird.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, it beats a lot of things we could be doing.
Hell Yeah!- Non-Alignment Pact-Now THERE'S an OSR motto if there ever was one. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd the diversification is happening. The ground work laid by everyone up to this point is starting to inspire others. It has me.
The OSR is in part about reclaiming our hobby from over-homogenization by corporate interests and for that I am glad.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Back to the hobby business 'where the games are made for fun' and not the 'maximum amount of units shifted in the 15-30 year old age demographic' industry.
ReplyDeleteWe saw it coming early on but for my group it really did just die in '89. Reading the article on Dragonlance over at Grognardia hit the nail on the head. It was the first time I had seen a DnD product that just turned me off. And I know there are a lot of Forgotten Realms fans out there but it just seemed like they were trying to sell us a blended 'Tolkien / what we had been doing all along' product.
The only product that would get me interested again was Dark Sun and I thought it deserved to be its own system because we didn't view it as DnD. It should have had it's own core, setting, etc. It sorta did, but then try convincing people it was DnD...that was a tough sell.
Given how PPCOC this "business" can be going back to our roots is really the only way our hobby can survive.
ReplyDeleteThe days of "mass appeal" are over and while D&D and its descendent's will continue for a long time and may even grow in drips and drabs, it will never be big again. That America (or world really) and its unique conditions are gone.