Tag: tabletop games
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Best Secondhand RPG Buy – RPGaDay 2023
The question today is: Best Secondhand RPG Purchase A lot of my RPG collection is secondhand. So, I’m struggling to come up with just one answer. I’ll try… Not too long ago, I got hold of a copy of FreeMarket. The game is co-written by Luke Crane, who also wrote the likes of Burning Wheel,…
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Favourite Licensed RPG – RPGaDay 2023
Today’s RPGaDAY question is: Favourite Licensed RPG Tough one. There have been some great licensed products over the years. Marvel Superheroes, from TSR with the much loved FASERIP system, was a solid piece of entertainment for me over many years. We played a bunch of adventures, and I read many more that I never got…
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Favourite Published Adventure – RPGaDay 2023
The question is: Favourite Published Adventure If I’m allowed any published adventure at all, I have a strange affection for Sky Rig, which was published in Issue 57 of White Dwarf way back in September 1984, which was not far off from when I first started collecting the magazine. It’s a disaster in space, with…
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Favourite Game System – RPGaDay 2023
Question number 18 is: Favourite Game System These questions don’t get any easier! I’ll caveat that this is hugely subjective. For some, Pathfinder or Rolemaster might fit all the criteria (for them) that I’m looking for, but I’m not seeing it. No one is right or wrong; we’re just built differently. I think I look…
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Funniest Game Played – RPGaDay 2023
Today’s question is: Funniest Game I’ve Played I suspect that many answers will have the caveat, “You had to be there.“ Funniest game – well, that experience usually comes out of not planning on something being funny. Funny is in the moment. And occasionally, funny gets as your jaw starts hurting, and you cry for…
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Game I Wish I Owned – RPGaDay 2023
Today’s question is: Game I Wished I Owned Oddly enough, the stuff I really wish I owned doesn’t even exist. For example, there are a bunch of 80s FASA supplements and games I would love to own. The Sontarans supplement, referenced in the 1986 Catalog for Doctor Who, for example, would, I’m certain, have been…
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Favourite Con One-Shot – RPGaDay 2023
The question is: Favourite Convention Module / One-Shot I run a lot of these. It’s my dominant involvement in the hobby — or certainly has been over the last decade or so. You cannot really go too wrong with something like a Dungeon Crawl Classic‘s Funnel adventure. A Funnel provides the meat-grinder approach to taking a…
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Favourite Convention Purchase – RPGaDay 2023
The original question was: Favourite Convention Purchase In what I suspect was 2005, I went to a gaming convention in Cambridge. At the time, I was freelancing on PARANOIA XP and working on The Underplex, which was one of the reasons that I attend this event loosely in the company of Allen Varney. He was…
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Memorable Character Demise – RPGaDay 2023
The original question was: Most Memorable Character Demise But, I would caveat that it feels more impactful than memorable, mostly because my memory of the details is pretty ropey. When Warhammer Fantasy Role Play first came out in 1986, Games Workshop supported it with some great material in White Dwarf. Many of the adventures that…