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Little known games in your collections.

Started by Yabba, November 10, 2022, 03:35:24 PM

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weirdguy564

#45
January 11, 2023, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on January 11, 2023, 06:41:23 PM
Maybe the most obscure game for me?  Twerps Metaphysical Ninja Maniac Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies.


What in the crystal meth is that?!?
I'm glad for you if you like the top selling game of the genre.  Me, I like the road less travelled, and will be the player asking we try a game you've never heard of.

Yabba

#46
January 11, 2023, 07:52:15 PM
Quote from: weirdguy564 on January 11, 2023, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on January 11, 2023, 06:41:23 PM
Maybe the most obscure game for me?  Twerps Metaphysical Ninja Maniac Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies.


What in the crystal meth is that?!?

I have to have this, where can I find it?
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rkhigdon

#47
January 11, 2023, 09:09:14 PM

Quote from: Cathode Ray on January 11, 2023, 06:41:23 PM
Maybe the most obscure game for me?  Twerps Metaphysical Ninja Maniac Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies.

I think I have everything for TWERPS except that.

Stephen Tannhauser

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January 12, 2023, 12:09:54 AM Last Edit: January 12, 2023, 12:19:22 AM by Stephen Tannhauser
I have the Puffin trade paperback of Maelstrom, a historical roleplaying game by Alexander Scott set in sixteenth-century Europe, which was obviously released to capitalize on the popularity of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks at the time but delivered actually quite a compelling little RPG in one book (particularly impressive when one learns that the author was in the English equivalent of high school at the time he wrote it).  If it has one flaw it's that it doesn't really give enough guidance for GMs on coming up with adventure ideas or in how to set appropriate stats for PC opponents.

(It would also no doubt run afoul of the PC-niks these days -- one sample combat has characters fighting savage tribal foes literally identified as "cannibals", and priests have the ability to actually successfully convert listeners to the Christian faith solely on a die roll, among other things. But I trust the crowd here has more discernment.)
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THE_Leopold

#49
January 12, 2023, 09:33:28 AM
I have the complete collection of Fast Forward Entertainment books from when they were around.  The Red covers are beautiful to look at even if the interior content is utterly bonkers.
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Cathode Ray

#50
January 14, 2023, 03:54:52 PM Last Edit: January 14, 2023, 03:56:23 PM by Cathode Ray
Quote from: Yabba on January 11, 2023, 07:52:15 PM
Quote from: weirdguy564 on January 11, 2023, 07:11:36 PM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on January 11, 2023, 06:41:23 PM
Maybe the most obscure game for me?  Twerps Metaphysical Ninja Maniac Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies.
(Image of TWERPS METAPHYSICAL MANIAC NINJA CHAINSAW VITAMIN JUNKIES)

What in the crystal meth is that?!?

I have to have this, where can I find it?

You can find it on eBay, if you are patient.  TWERPS titles are a bit pricey.  You may find this in a bundle or a lot of Twerps titles and get a good deal.  (That's how I acquired this copy: in a bundle of 6 Twerps titles.)  You'll require the basic TWERPS rules to play.  Twerps Metaphysical Maniac Ninja Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies is kind of the Twerps equivalent of Car Wars, which is a tactical combat game with some role-play elements.  Sometimes titles are really pricey, and months later, someone posts a copy of games like these at a reasonable price,which is when you should jump on it.  I did that with Panzer Pranks, which was going for $90 forever, and then someone posted one for about $16.

The Twerps franchise was released by Reindeer Games, and distributed by Gamescience, which has a place in RPG history as the ones who provided the polyhedral dice for old-school Dungeons and Dragons.
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Dropbear

#51
January 14, 2023, 06:13:47 PM
I don't know many who have physical copies of this https://nameless-designer.itch.io/heroes-of-adventure, or even have heard of it.

Baron

#52
February 24, 2023, 02:56:18 AM
I won't include PDFs, but as far as little-known RPGs I have Thieves Guild, Wizards (Bakshi), Hawkmoon, Corum, JAGS Wonderland, Warbirds, and every Tekumel game (my Tekumel collection is for sale if anyone's interested).
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