I was poking at his City Blocks thing and looked back at his Blog (http://kellri.blogspot.com/) to find this. I about lost my coffee.
Quote from: kellriOn a Deadhead board recently, I read a post detailing what kind of erm, chemical help, the band was availing themselves of during the recording sessions for each album. Not sure how true it was, but it was funny as hell. Similarly, I've always wondered about rpgs...what kind of drugs were the designers doing when they wrote that stuff? Here are my tongue-in-cheek guesses:
OD&D - Coffee, beer & red wine, nicotine
1e AD&D - Sensimilla, coffee, nicotine, fruit wine
2e AD&D - coffee, nicotine, wine coolers
3e AD&D - Starbucks coffee, microbrews
4e AD&D - AA badges
OSRIC/LL/S&W - Viagra, coffee, nitroglycerin
Empire of the Petal Throne - Nepalese temple-balls, Persian H, mescaline, chai
Runequest - shrooms, sensimilla, herbal tea
WFRP 1e - blow, Lebanese black hash, Newcastle brown
CoC - pcp, nitrous, opium
Sorceror - Red Bull, paint stripper
RIFTS - roids, Gatorade
T&T - coffee, sensi, beer
Gamma World - acid, sensi, mescaline
d20 Gamma World - Xanax, diet pills
Traveller - coffee, truckstop speed, tequila
Vampire: The Masquerade - Xanax, ritalin
Talislanta - more of everything with a needle & a spoon
GURPS - valium, coffee
Forward to Adventure! - pipe tobacco, coffee
Exalted - fruit juice masquerading as a 'smart drug'
And feel free to add you own favorite hopped-up games to the list.
POSTED BY KELLRI AT 4:13 PM 55 COMMENTS:
LABELS: RPG, SATIRE
All credit to him.
Edit: Goodness, I certainly necro'd the hell out of that blog post; I didn't look all the way at the top where the year was, I only saw the time at the bottom and thought it was recent.
Still funny.
a classic post!
d20 Gamma World is LITERALLY true.
My game, Tribute:
Actual:
Tea and Nicotine.
Might as well have been:
Crystal Meth and weed.
Flashing Blades - wine, more wine, even more wine
Rolemaster: Coffee, with a double shot of Ritalin.
No Torg? :)
My guess, for oTorg, is Ritalin and a lot of hallucinogens. (Plus a unique drug for each reality. Tharkold is 'roids, obviously.)
Storm Knights is water, a CPAP machine, and a natural obsession. ;)