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Gryphon
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Jan-28-13, 10:04 PM (EDT) |
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"gaming nostalgia"
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I have acquired a copy of the late Erick Wujcik's Mutants Down Under, which is in the interesting position of being a supplement to a supplement to a roleplaying game (in this case, it's the Australasian booster pack for the postapocalyptic setting (aptly called After the Bomb) for Palladium Books' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness RPG. My posse had a copy of this book back when I was in high school, in the late 1980s, but we didn't have After the Bomb (or, indeed, TMNT & Other Strangeness, until I bought a copy during senior year). No, what we did instead was disregard the postapocalyptic setting and just used the mutant animal rules to introduce mutant Australian animals - for no explicable reason - to our long-running game of another, basically unrelated Wujcik/Palladium game, Ninjas and Superspies. As such, I had a long-running character, Dave McClurg, who had been a combat engineer in the Australian army before going to work for our campaign setting's CONTROL-like counterintelligence agency, and who happened - to the apparent surprise of no one in the game world - to be a five-foot-tall koala with a truly epic capacity for beer, a cheerfully casual attitude toward the handling of high explosives, and dramatically limited patience as regards paperwork. Ah, those were the days. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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