Category: RPG

“The First Quest” AD&D Double LP

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UPDATE (18 Feb 2019): More information on this album was emailed to me by someone named Michael (‘Mick’) Baker, after my spamblocker apparently ate his attempt to post it as a comment. Here is the email in full: Thanks for a nice article, I actually have the ‘First Quest’ album and i got it in the mid 80s on a hunch that one track on it, may be the one i was looking for, and it turned out right :), The track The Living Dead is a slight variation of the intro into the awesome 85 film ‘The Return of …

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Engel Arkana Cards, in English

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UPDATE (5 Nov. 2017): Not that I’m any closer to running this game, but I did end up figuring out how to select a color range in Gimp, and updated the cards to look a little nicer. If you’re interested, pop down to the end of this post to see (and or download) the updated cards.  Original Post: I may be the only person still interested in this, but one never knows, so here goes: this post contains a set of cards from a defunct game that I adapted for use by English speakers. They’re not beautiful (the original scans I …

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 8: Tie-In Fiction and Comics

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This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 12: Conclusion… for Now

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This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 10: Orpheus

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Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts… and  just a little bit beyond, as you can see from the featured image of this post. If you’re only after information about the Orpheus RPG White Wolf published in 2003, then this post is for you. However, if you’re new to the series and interested in Wraith, then I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 7: “Concept” and Other Books

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This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Looking Forward – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 31

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Here we are, at the end of August, which was RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question, the final question of the series, is this: What do you anticipate most for gaming in 2018? Oh, well. I guess now it’s time to get down to logistics. 

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Mishmash – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 30

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see? Ah, well, now we’re in dangerous territory, since the stuff I’d most like to see is stuff I’m working on, yes, as in projects I want to write and pitch and sell and get out into the world. I won’t say anything about those because, unlike in fiction, I think in RPGs an interesting and unusual idea is actually worth something, even if execution still matters more than idea.  Also, a lot …

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Backed and Funded! – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 29

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Comedy in RPGs – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 28

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What film/series is the biggest source of quotes in your group? Huh, funny assumption. I can say I’ve played with people who do this a lot—who love to quote lines from Monty Python or action movies or whatever—but not so much, lately. I don’t have a regular group, right now, but in my last group, I don’t really recall anyone quoting movies so much.  That’s not to say there wasn’t comedy, it was just more situational or (imaginary) slapstick comedy. Do groups …

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