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Forums  > General  > Off Topic  > Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks?     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks?  renter6 Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Total Posts: 684 Send PM   Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks? Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:42 AM Found this snooping around my webcomics on a Sunday morning: http://www.goblinoidgames.com/ I'm fascinated because their trade seems to be replicating the layout and feel of vintage D&D rulebooks, with a set of "original" self-consciously retro rules. I haven't gamed with P&P in a heck of a long while (and when I last did, that referred to No. 2 pencil and loose-leaf paper). I have a box in my closet with AD&D 1st ed. rules books and a few books from the 2nd ed. thrown in, plus the first three editions of Gamma World (never played it!), Twilight 2000, this, that, and the other. I love the bad art in early games. Someone working on these games has styled his illustrations after Erol Otus. I love that! "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about dying." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever." -Burt Reynolds, "The End"  Henesua houseofthemagus.com Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Total Posts: 797 Send PM   Re: Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks? Posted: 31 Jan 2010 10:38 AM Thanks for this, Renter. I too never played Gamma World but always wanted too. I did manage to play Call of Cthulu twice. I still have that stuff in the closet just in case. Famous last words: Mykal> it's my new wireless router. * > Mykal has quit (Ping timeout) Vulpina> Hey!! IRC didn't boot m..... * > Vulpina has quit (Exit: DarkMyst WebChat)  Vince Klortho Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Total Posts: 268 Send PM   Re: Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks? Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:47 PM GAMMA WORLD!! Had a great campaign in junior high... the best thing about the rules was that you could play a sentient plant. Different tech levels were awesome, as well. "You know, a gong. Large, flat object that you hit when you want things. Sort of like a waiter, but less portable." -Radra  renter6 Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Total Posts: 684 Send PM   Re: Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks? Posted: 01 Feb 2010 08:19 AM VK has got it right - GAMMA WORLD should always be in all caps! "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about dying." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever." -Burt Reynolds, "The End"  Imperious Joined: 21 May 2005 Total Posts: 303 Send PM   Re: Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks? Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:41 PM I loved Gamma World....sorry, GAMMA WORLD...enough that I'm still on a Wizards of the Coast list-serv about it. And the timing of this post is interesting in that apparently there will be a 4th Edition version of GW coming out...just announced last week. Of course, since it's 4E, it will be nothing like the original version/box/cover, which to my mind ranks up with the blue box D&D version as the best covers of all time. And the great picture of the mutated rabbits (Hoops? they were called) toting around semi-automatics and assault rifles.....ah, those were the days. The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for... -- Ernest Hemingway Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > General  > Off Topic  > Cloning the cheap feel of old rulebooks?