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@nowayjosedaniel 11 минут бұрын
Thank you for all this documentation. It's invaluable for our society, and I personally absolutely love your channel.
@sir_cornholio5 5 сағат бұрын
Thank you for the video wonderful job and I’m definitely picking up this book. I can’t believe I didn’t know about it! I dressed up as hicks when I was 11 years old I’m 38 now. Very cool
@the80sguy80 6 сағат бұрын
Machine Man was a favorite of mine as well, he doesn't get enough love. As for this game, my friends and I needing a break from Dungeons & Dragons, started playing this back in the day and we absolutely loved it. The Secret Wars adventure module which came out later was really fun. Brings back alot of memories...
@allluckyseven 7 сағат бұрын
Funny that, now that I've seen this video, I can see that the new Marvel RPG (Marvel Multiverse) took some inspirations from this game. The Attributes forming (even if not intended to be) an acronym, power ranks, Karma...
@Halfling.Paladin 9 сағат бұрын
more handholdy superpower shit. This game sounds awful. Games are more fun when there's risk of failure.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom 15 сағат бұрын
If fighting fantasy gets a throwback. It would be called retro fighting fantasy.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom 15 сағат бұрын
The pathfinder to dungeon crawl classics.
@BigBatts Күн бұрын
First rpg I ever played in ‘89. Great to see that cover again
@Quirky_QF Күн бұрын
Could you imagine if modern day Iron Man had roller skates pop out of his boots to roll around in? The fans would lose their minds.
@freddaniel5099 Күн бұрын
Great game, period.
@Eurodance_Groove Күн бұрын
This game resembles too much warhammer 40 000
@calstancill Күн бұрын
Wait... So I need the other book with the bike on the cover too?
@ChristopherPolack Күн бұрын
terrific flip through. thanks for creating this video.
@witchdoctor1394 Күн бұрын
This was one of the big 3 Superhero genre games back in the 80s-90s. Alongside Mayfair's excellent 'DC HEROES' game and the super crunchy 'Champions/HERO system' these three were pretty much the go-to games for superhero action. There was also 'SuperWorld' which ran on the BRP (Call of Cthulhu RPG) system and GURPS Supers, Villains & Vigilantes and a few others. I remember MSH released an absolutely HUGE loose-leaf supplement that detailed just about every hero & villain in Marvel at the time...complete with game stats.
@Nightbreed24 4 күн бұрын
I bought this because of the extra gaming material. Some of the modules are OK, but I don't think, that they can be jury rigged into a campaign.
@RPGGamer 3 күн бұрын
I'd seen most of these when they were published in White Dwarf, and think they're a great set of adventures. But totally agree, putting them together and calling them a campaign really doesn't work.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom 4 күн бұрын
D6 space? But I haven’t played D1 space yet.
@RPGGamer 3 күн бұрын
Afraid I use the same joke whenever I see something with a number in the title, my usual claim is "however will I follow the plot since I've missed all the earlier parts". I think my wife is getting a little tired of the joke :D
@TUKByV 4 күн бұрын
Interesting!
@RPGGamer 3 күн бұрын
Totally agree, so many great ideas in this game. Sad it's no longer being published.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom 4 күн бұрын
It reminds me of Aquelarre. The RPG is based around Spanish folklore about demons. The combat and historical war gaming inspired them outside of coming across demons. The morality system will affect characters. If you steal or kill for fun. You are at risk of demonic possession or curses.
@RPGGamer 3 күн бұрын
Does sound pretty similar, as Demons are behind a lot of what's going on in Dog's. One final video to do covering this game, and it's about how every adventure is about the town or settlement it's based in, love that it really concentrates on creating an interesting town and bunch of NPC's for every plot.
@RIVERSRPGChannel 6 күн бұрын
Bummer I still wish these were available in the states
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
This issue I'd say No, it's really not that interesting. £8.99 for maps which aren't really useable, and 4 pages of decent content, really overpriced. Sad as many of the recent issues were getting great.
@RIVERSRPGChannel 5 күн бұрын
@@RPGGamer yes the other issues were worth it. I would like to see them here though
@allluckyseven 6 күн бұрын
Yeahhh... This one's one of the weakest issues they've put out, considering the price. Some nice things with the random encounters and the paladin oathbreaker, but lighter than they should be. I may be wrong, but I think that articles in old magazines would give you so much more. In the next issue, they've gone back to packing a set of dice, and in the next one there will be a notebook with a mechanical pencil. Now, I'm curious to see if this will be one of those 5E adventure journals like Field Notes has, or like one of those on Etsy (both types have pages with blank character sheets, spell sheets, others to draw maps on, quest logs, etc.), or if it'll be just a regular notebook, with nothing special about it.
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
I missed the next issue, but just picked up the one with pencil and pad last night. It's just a lined note pad, but still feels nice compared to useless maps, or yet more dice. The pencil is a little cheap too, would have preferred a branded wood pencil, but you can't have everything.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom 6 күн бұрын
Oddly the spiritual successor of the ghostbusters RPG.
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
I see what you mean ruleswise. But I think Men in Black was really the spiritual successor to Ghostbusters. Same rules system (with some improvements over time), same tone, really deserved to do better.
@joshuahartman3132 2 күн бұрын
I think the Star Wars one (the first edition, that is) was either released at the same time as Ghostbusters or just slightly before or after, as there's an ad for it along with the ads for the SW Sourcebooks in the back of the First Edition book.
@richardmullens4707 6 күн бұрын
I only buy issues where I like the dice and I thought battle mats for miniatures would be great... but... I guessed that these maps/mats might not be that good. So I was holding back on getting this issue until I saw your review. Glad I did. Unfortunately I haven't got any miniatures in ant scale, so I won't be buying it. What a disappointment this issue is!
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
Yeah, this isn't a good issue at all. After a bunch of issues which were getting progressively better and better, this one just messed the bed and ruined it all.
@UrzaTron707 7 күн бұрын
Love it! We go back from 5 ed to 2.0 and it absolutelly more grimdark and rewarding to play overall
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
Love every edition of D&D for different reasons. 2e I love for the fact it gives you reasons to go adventuring, to build your castle, pay hirelings, etc, and for it having so many great campaign settings, Dark Sun, Planescape, Spelljammer, etc, etc. But I never saw it as particularly grimdark, with us it seemed epic fantasy. Fighting an enlarged Black Dragon which blotted out the sky, our Paladin wrestling the Tarrasque into unconsciousness in the first round of combat. Epic stuff.
@RIVERSRPGChannel 8 күн бұрын
Very cool magazine, wish they had them in the states
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
It's been a couple of decades since I last visited the states, but I remember being really jealous of the Magazines there. Ordinary shops seemed to have all the UK mags of the Time (Gamesmaster International, Valkyrie, etc), as well as the normal ones we also saw over here (Dungeon/Dragon), but you also had things like Shadis, and I remember seeing RPG sections in other magazines (I picked up a Star Trek magazine, and it has a section on roleplaying). But I suppose times have changed, and magazine shelves are a lot more empty these days.
@RIVERSRPGChannel 5 күн бұрын
@@RPGGamer yes they are especially with all the digital stuff
@johnsimcoe2081 8 күн бұрын
These were a huge misfire, in my opinion. It ended up being not generic enough for good homebrewing, and not specific enough to form a cohesive game concept. Plus, I truly hate the advantages/disadvantages system that they wasted half the book on.
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
They really should have come with some kind of setting, as while the D6 system is great, I've got it with my Star Wars, Ghostbusters and Men in Black rulebooks.
@MP_Indy 8 күн бұрын
Look at that price. That game is a STEAL for that!
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
Let me fetch my time machine.
@samuelhaight195 8 күн бұрын
Such a great book :)
@RPGGamer 5 күн бұрын
I'm currently about to start running a Cyberpunk campaign, and reading through this for the video made me stop in my tracks and I'm seriously considering just using it.
@rebeltinaschannel6240 10 күн бұрын
I think you're skiing dangerously into correlation vs. causation there re: church attendance and gun undoing. The factors are a lot more complex than that.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
Which was the point I was making, If they can make totally spurious claims, so can I. And it took me less that 5 minutes to google data to support it.
@stevenkennedy4130 11 күн бұрын
I own these three modules. What a blast from the past! Thanks for the share!!
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
My pleasure, was a joy to read through them.
@johnwalsh4857 11 күн бұрын
first saw a mention of this one in a Judges Guild catalog in the Sci fi movie magazine from 1980.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
Although I've been gaming since around then, Judges Guild has just bypassed me completely and I really haven't been aware of them, so this was a joyous little discovery for me.
@johnwalsh4857 10 күн бұрын
@@RPGGamer As for me what fascinated me with judge's guild is them not only sticking to D&D but they also produced adventures and supplements for Traveller, Villain';s and vigilantes and Runequest.
@michaelotero4394 11 күн бұрын
I recently backed The D6 System 2e Kickstarter because I was fond of the 90s one and the WEG Star Wars. It put me on a D6 dice pool system rabbit trail. You might like Mythic D6, which is the successor of D6 Legends. It’s the D6 system, but you count successes instead of adding up the dice. I can second the TinyD6 system as a great minimalist d6 pool game. I discovered a few others that might interest you: EZ D6, Tricube Tales, Mini Six, and Far Away Land. I really like these games - especially FAL. Don’t let the Adventure Time-esque aesthetics fool you; there’s a great game there!
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
I've had TinyD6 and EZ D6 recommended by someone in my gaming group, and he intends to run them sometime soon, so I hope to get some real experience with those soon. I remember the D6 Legends system, which was an interesting variant on the normal D6, and will check the others out, cheers for letting me know about them.
@allluckyseven 11 күн бұрын
That looks fun and is very nostalgic. The first adventures I've ever played or created, way back in the early 90s with Basic D&D were very much like that. We'd come up with a very simple plot, and then take the PCs to a dungeon with random stuff and monsters in every room. Only a few monsters and rooms had anything connecting them to the plot.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
Yep, this totally reminds me of so many adventures we played, where there was no plot, just a map and bunch of monsters to fight.
@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 4 күн бұрын
I remember those games. They quickly led me to writing more exciting settings with themed uniformity They weren’t great because everything penalized the players who weren’t adapted by nature to the oddities Now I called that hard mode
@youwayo 11 күн бұрын
I don’t mean be to that kind of guy but… …STILL BETTER THAN DISNEY STAR WARS!
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
There's a load of Disneyverse stuff I like, but I do miss this version of the Star Wars universe as it makes a lot more sense that much of the new stuff.
@TA-by9wv 11 күн бұрын
Congratulations you come off as less tolerant and more insane than pat ribertson. Quite the feat.
@RPGGamer 11 күн бұрын
I'm honestly curious, what did I say which made me seem less tolerant and more insane than the guy who was telling us he had men hold down a young girl as she objected and screamed "no"?
@LionKimbro 12 күн бұрын
My partner and I are reading these books because they were vigorously recommended as "YOU-MUST-READ" by a new friend of ours, named Robert.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
As I've said elsewhere, the only books to have made me cry. The end of The Heir Apparent made me cry for hours. Love these books so much.
@BeetleBuns 12 күн бұрын
thanks for making a video on this game, my partner just picked up a copy and I wanted to learn to play but as you said, yours is the only video about it on youtube
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
I'm glad you liked it, sad it wasn't more popular as it's got a lot to like about it.
@luziankrieger8370 12 күн бұрын
Played it for years. Great system.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
I really like a lot in the game, but I do look at it more as a toolkit to lift ideas out of as the combat system does seem a bit slow.
@tombirmingham7033 12 күн бұрын
it's all real, ever read on John Dee and Rabbi Loew? The black lodge are the masons, and the ragnarok guys are a real world cult called the Thulians. the vampire conspiracy is the sabbatian and Chabad conspiracies. The atlantean conspiracy is related to the Rosacrucion movements
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
My dad used to be a member of Masonic Lodge No.1, and tried to get me to join before he passed, but I really wasn't interested as it seemed laughably stupid. Think he convinced by eldest brother instead though.
@tombirmingham7033 10 күн бұрын
@@RPGGamer traditions can seem stupid. but it's the rigidity of these systems that are kinf of necessary to manage the world. I am a big fan of occult stuff and when you read into it you start finding alot of things in our games are based on real life conspiracies. the truth is stranger than fiction. The great awakening for example, what if i told you magick was real and visa vee, "God"?
@user-sw6hx4sj7u 13 күн бұрын
Also awesome nes rpgs on my opinion: Might and magic 1 Ultima 3 Dragon wars Pool of radiance
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
Cool list, I wasn't aware of Pool of Radiance on the NES, loved it on the home computers, so am really interested in how it looked on translation to the NES.
@auxlen 13 күн бұрын
I stopped this when i had more dice than magazines. I wanted to like it so much but it did not represent value for money to me.
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
I think I broke my printer with all the dice and tins I piled on top of it from DnD Adventurer. I'm a sucker for RPG stuff, and I keep finding this magazine in the shop at the end of my road (where I am most days buying milk and bread), so I keep on buying it although I've long said it wasn't worth the cover price.
@RIVERSRPGChannel 13 күн бұрын
Nice they give you dice That is a cool magazine too
@RPGGamer 10 күн бұрын
It's been improving later, but spoilers, next issue the only gift was a dungeon map, and most of it was just Sub-classes, so not really useful to most people.