Statting out the Terminator, Villains & Vigilantes Style!

I’m bringing metal down on the Connors, Villains & Vigilantes style! (using the 1982 revised edition of the game).
Over on RPG.net, Jonah challenged us to stat up the Terminator using our choice of non-generic RPGs. My first run into the arena is with my favourite old-school supers RPG – Villains & Vigilantes. V&V was a [...]

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[MERC] Henrik Volker, South African Special Forces

“As long as there have been wars, there have been mercenaries. Whether for money, patriotism or just the love of adventure they came; the Lafayettes and Von Steubens, the Mickey Marcuses and Mike Hoares. Rallying to foreign flags to lead, fight and die. These are the twilight soldiers.”
MERC is an interesting odd-ball of a game [...]

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[Bushido] Asao Iwakuro, Shugenja

Bushido is a classic FGU game that really helped set the tone of “Oriental Adventures” styled games. It’s a typical FGU boxed set with only two books inside it – a player book with most of the rules and a GM book with setting information, bad guys, and a sample adventure. It’s by the team [...]

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[Other Suns] Tchalok Yontibrezat, Ata’a Lowlife

Still on myFantasy Games Unlimited kick after the Monday top 5 list, I pulled another FGU game off the shelf today at random and got… Other Suns. FGU had a lot of science fiction games on the market around this time – they were working hard to compete in every RPG arena it seems, and [...]

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[DareDevils] Scott “Free” Bujold, Fighter Pilot of Fortune

Continuing on the series of FGU games, Daredevils was my first Pulp RPG (released in 1982). It’s the classic “two fisted thirties” genre RPG where you play a variety of pulp heroes – the classic examples of the cloaked avenger, the technical wizard, the hard-boiled detective and so on. I remember watching a bunch of [...]

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[PSI World] Anne Ranger, Rogue Bike Courier

Still on my FGU kick from my Top Five FGU Classics, I decided to pull down another game that didn’t make the top 5 list, make a character or two for it, and get a new feel for the game. This time it’s the venerable PSI World. Not as old as Starships and Spacemen, PSI [...]

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[Starships & Spacemen] Mr “Terror” Gessek

With yesterday’s post being about Fantasy Games Unlimited’s variety of cool games, I figured it was perfect time to dig through some FGU games and put together characters for some of them. The first game that came off the shelf was a true classic, Starships & Spacemen, one of the first science fiction RPGs on [...]

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5 FGU Classics

While discussing the advertising in vintage Dragon magazines over on Zachary’s RPG blog II, I realized exactly how many ads Fantasy Games Unlimited had in each issue back then.
Of course, the second realization was exactly how many FGU games I had bought because of those exact ads over the years. Going through my shelves I [...]

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