Quote from: David Johansen on June 18, 2023, 11:18:50 PM
Your attributes were 6d20 and you made percentile rolls against the square root of your attribute divided by the difficulty times 100.  In the case of combat the difficulty.  Fighters got one attack per level.  Magic used spell points and the list was pretty generic.  The monster book was pretty standard with a brief description of each creature and a stat block.  I had a copy long ago, fished out of the discard bin at The Sentry Box, I've always loved small press stuff.  I did always wish I'd gotten the floor plans that came with it.

Sounds like they had the same idea as Other suns where you needed a math degree to create a character.

One of the first cons I ever attended had an obscure little Mecha combat game on display called Ground Assault Gamma Force and the minis were little plastic Gundam models from Japanese grabber vendors. Probably the only person to ever have the game.

Theres alot of those out there I suspect. More obscure than the obscure.

Part 13 in my Forgotten Games series on my blog.

https://www.pigames.net/store/blog.php?entry=3018

Quote from: Omega on June 19, 2023, 06:58:32 AM
Sounds like they had the same idea as Other suns where you needed a math degree to create a character...

Yeah, I reached out to the author back in the day and asked if I could write a program for character gen and give it to him to use and increase the player base.  He declined.  Yeah, if you are so protective of your property that you would rather have it die on the vine, don't be surprised when you get what you asked for.

Quote from: zircher on August 17, 2023, 09:33:28 PM

Quote from: Omega on June 19, 2023, 06:58:32 AM
Sounds like they had the same idea as Other suns where you needed a math degree to create a character...

Yeah, I reached out to the author back in the day and asked if I could write a program for character gen and give it to him to use and increase the player base.  He declined.  Yeah, if you are so protective of your property that you would rather have it die on the vine, don't be surprised when you get what you asked for.

Yeah me and a friend were working on a fan site way back and he threatened the site owner and got it shut down. None of the FGU staff I ever met had anything good to say about the designer.

Found another obscure RPG while cleaning out storage.

Pandemonium: Adventures in Tabloid World: 1992. from Deja Vu Studios and M.I.B Productions. Theres mention of Atlas on the back but not in the book. Reads like similar take as another tabloid themed RPG from the 90s. So yeah, all the tabloid adds are true and you make adventures with those as possible adventure hooks. Uses a d10 system where 6 and up is a success of some sort. Came with EZ rules for quickstart and then the normal rules.

Also found my roommates copy of Ars Magica.

Quote from: brettmb on August 17, 2023, 03:57:22 PM
Part 13 in my Forgotten Games series on my blog.

https://www.pigames.net/store/blog.php?entry=3018

LOL @ MEGA...so I was in high school and had busted my ass mowing yards, earmarked about $20 to buy a new RPG and I was hell-bent on getting MEGA from the gaming store. A lone copy sat on that shelf for at least 6 months and I thought it looked badass. Well, my brother wanted to buy a new album one evening so we took the bus to the mall and he went to Hastings while I went into Waldenbooks next door (really dating myself here). I ended up getting GURPS instead, much the chagrin of a couple guys I gamed with who all thought MEGA would be the best game ever created, because the cover looked cool or something?

Flash forward to around four years ago, I got a copy of MEGA off ebay for $5. Let's just say, at the time I thought maybe I made a mistake getting GURPS instead, but in retrospect what an uninspired fucking mess this game is. It could have been a tour de force of Norse RPGness, and instead is merely a weird D&D knockoff with some "interesting" systems. I'm happy I finally have a copy, but I doubt even 14 year old me would have had fun playing it.

This is rare for me to do, but I brought back a game on my list. The Machineguns & Magic Classic Reprint is now available in PDF, with optional Softcover pre-order. What happens when your military squad gets transported to a fantasy world and must face orcs, goblins, dragons, and evil wizards?

http://rpg.deals/mm