Has anyone mentioned Midnight at the Well of Souls? I'm not sure if I ever encountered anyone that actually played it.

Quote from: Tetsubo;953652Has anyone mentioned Midnight at the Well of Souls? I'm not sure if I ever encountered anyone that actually played it.

I picked up a copy on eBay a few years back. Interesting idea, but not much advice on running it.

Quote from: Matt;953394Is the Arthurian game Hidden Kingdom obscure?

Probably, although it did get a Kickstarter revival about a year or two ago and can be found on DriveThruRPG.

Quote from: Dan Davenport;952602Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1992), based on the 1977 animated movie. A post-apocalyptic, post-human setting in which the true ancestors of mankind -- Elves, Dwarves, Faeries -- use magic to battle the technology-using mutants and their demon allies. Had a nice, simple attribute+skill system, IIRC, and a decent spell-creation system, but the damage system depended upon being big and strong enough to use heavier weapons... which meant that only a maxed-out, human-sized Dwarf could wield a battle axe.

I guess Wizards is a pretty obscure game today. But there was a time (really for most of the 90s) where it seemed to be in every gaming store I went into. I'm betting it was a pretty big print-run (bigger than was merited, apparently).

1992 certainly seems a bit late in the game to be putting out a Wizards RPG.

I picked up a copy of Star Rovers a while back. It's pretty much Arduin Grimoire in space. Dave Hargrave actually did have a hand in it and some of Arduin's scifi elements turn up in it.
I think it might have been meant to be compatible with Traveller to some degree.

It's infamously incomplete, being labeled as 'module 1' with no sign of 'module 2' ever having been written. So no starship rules and lots of stuff mentioned without explanation.
Still, kinda cool, and like Arduin, gave me some wacky ideas for space-fantasy games.

It goes for nutty prices online but I got really lucky and got a mint copy for $30.

Quote from: Simlasa;954170I picked up a copy of Star Rovers a while back. It's pretty much Arduin Grimoire in space. Dave Hargrave actually did have a hand in it and some of Arduin's scifi elements turn up in it.
I think it might have been meant to be compatible with Traveller to some degree.

It's infamously incomplete, being labeled as 'module 1' with no sign of 'module 2' ever having been written. So no starship rules and lots of stuff mentioned without explanation.
Still, kinda cool, and like Arduin, gave me some wacky ideas for space-fantasy games.

It goes for nutty prices online but I got really lucky and got a mint copy for $30.

http://mrlizard.com/characters/star-rovers/
Oh, man. Mind truly blown.

Quote from: Voros;9541061992 certainly seems a bit late in the game to be putting out a Wizards RPG.

Judging by how long some books sat in gaming stores, I'd say you were right.

Reading that link to the Star Rovers... review?  reminded me a bit of the intro to SLA Industries. A lot actually. Not that SLA Industries has galaxy eating whatchamacallits and so forth, but simply how much of the backstory of the setting... as presented to the average player and game buyer... is so generally free of context and connection to anything in the actual game, but is just cool as fuck.  


Of course, cut to a decade plus later and I finally find The Truth in the Interwebz and... yeah, I was happy with the Kilneck roaming out Beyond Black Stump, past the White Earth and all that jazz.  In this case it turns out that the Kilneck and all that stuff was apparently an Amber Diceless game (stripped of setting) that the designer had run for his mates some time before that had eventually evolved into SLA Industries... so quiet possibly Mr Slayer, Senti and Precepter Teeth are the ultimate GMPCs because they were, once upon a time, actual PCs...  

Not sure how obscure it really is, but damn its still in my top five 'if only' games.