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Experiences with real life figures in historical and modern games

Started by Nexus, August 07, 2016, 06:51:11 AM

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Black Vulmea

Quote from: Voros;945864What was the first RPG to feature historical figures? Boot Hill or CoC? Something else?
2e Boot Hill was 1979 - I don't have my copy of the first edition handy, but I don't believe it included the "Fastest Guns Who Ever Lived" section of the 2e rule book.
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Ronnie James Dio helped out in Hunter the Vigil. One player did not like it. I liked it though. That player was a dick.

Chuck Norris trained some agents in BRP in karate. All the players liked it.

RunningLaser

Quote from: Kravell;946058Ronnie James Dio helped out in Hunter the Vigil. One player did not like it. I liked it though. That player was a dick.

Chuck Norris trained some agents in BRP in karate. All the players liked it.

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Voros

Quote from: Black Vulmea;9460382e Boot Hill was 1979 - I don't have my copy of the first edition handy, but I don't believe it included the "Fastest Guns Who Ever Lived" section of the 2e rule book.

That would beat out 1st edition CoC by several years and I doubt they included any historical characters in the rulebook.  I think it was CoC that really popularized historical RP though.