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No D & D stuff for me. Yeah I played it with friends because they liked it, but I never looked for it. I ran it on occasion because it was my turn, but I never bought the books. I was always able to borrow them. I did buy some from the used bin once in a pinch with "borrowed" money. :-)
Now try and borrow someguys ratty old copy of RECON or his copy of Aftermath that doesn't look it could take one more game. I don't think so. Even Twilight 2000, which has plenty of books around, it would be easier sapping a mine field than getting to borrow the books.
It was (is) a different class of people, a different breed of adventure seeker that could be armed to the teeth and still beg (argue) the Referee not to be found out and forced to confrontation. Then if they did find you, you got that "Look" in your eyes just before hundreds of dice were thrown.
These are the times I remember most about the games. Before Console's and PC's pidgeon holed a characters persona. If your a fan of one of those platforms then you are "this close" to feeling the good ole rush of a Referee's call in your favor, counting one that landed on the floor because "you called it", and the good old plot twist because the Referee's boss (wife/girlfriend) yelled at him. Nothing sexist intended, statistically written. The hobby was always begging for more women.
Hit the auctions, the Net, Used game stores. Any way you can to get one of these great games. Learn it. If you can't learn it, get online and ask (they do for cheats). Afterward teach your friends, spoon feed them, a little at a time. These are the games you can count on your hand not on your memory card. Best of all there are no codes, just rules. Kinda like life.
I've played all of these at some point. I plan on putting up a dedication page to Aftermath, Psi World and RECON as soon as time permits.
~ Aftermath (FGU ) Paul Hume and Bob Charette
~ Psi World (FGU) Del Carr and Cheron
~ RECON (Palladium) Erick Wujcik
~ Freedom Fighters (FGU) J. Andrew Kieth
~ Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes (Flying Buffaloe)
Michael A. Stackpole
~ Skull and Cross bones (FGU) Gerald D. Seypura and Anthony LeBoutilier.
~ Year of the PHOENIX (FGU) Martin Wixted
~ GURPS (Steve Jackson Games) Steve Jackson
I'll eventually expand this to my entire library.
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