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7) SMARTEST RPG you’ve played

Continuum, a time-travel RPG where nobody can change the timeline. Is that fun? Yes, it is, because those restrictions means you have to carefully manage where you are, when, and what you learn there. In-universe, the time-line is fixed, but as long as you don’t know what that time-line is, you have your hands free. This makes for very clever game-play, but the load on the GM was too high for me and I had to end the one campaign I ran of this.

8) Favourite CHARACTER

Oof, I’ve played so many, and I don’t even remember them all. Right now, I think it’s the two character I played that were both named Arin. One was in a homebrew system in a geofictional world — so the world had been created as its own thing, and only as a vehicle for RPGs on second thought. This gave it a richness that is hard to get. This Arin was an easy-going swindler who got into more trouble than he could handle.

The second Arin was in Astrid’s Amber Campaign (somewhere around 2005? wow, it’s been so long ago) and was the straight-laced son of Corwin. He ended up in the smallest faction in a throne war. The queen of the Golden Circle Shadow where he was seeking shelter tried to use him for her own political gains, but Arin ended up marrying her daughter and becoming the ‘prince-consort’.

9) Favourite DICE

d100, in the “two d10” manner. On my wedding day, I wore cufflinks with d100s made of amber!

10) Favourite tie-in FICTION

I don’t read tie-in fiction. The last time I bought a fiction book that is set in an explicit RPG universe, it was the ‘Secrets of Power’ trilogy for Shadowrun, which was published in 1990-1991, so go figure.

11) WEIRDEST game you’ve played

Rune, based on the computer game with the same name. It is a competitive RPG. GMs have a budget to design ‘levels’, with monsters and traps costing a certain number of points. Then the PCs tackle the level, and there is a scoring mechanism involved. The idea is that every player designs a few levels with the same point budget, and there is a point scoring mechanism for both PC and GM (of the level). At the end, the points are compared and someone wins…

12) Old game you STILL play

Last Thursday we finished up a three-session Ravenloft using AD&D. I would not play this for a long-term game, but it was fun as a one-shot. Technically, I’m still in an Amber Diceless RPG game, which was published in 1991, I think that is the oldest game I am still playing.

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