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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 902715" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>Yes, I remember it. There were three of them, at least. One for fantasy and one for science-fiction games, then a bit later on one that was for modern/horror/superhero games.</p><p></p><p>It was a pretty darn good product, just full of charts and tables and idea mechanics just waiting to be used. It was adjustable to a number of games, and had suggestions on how to interprete certain results for different systems.</p><p></p><p>The first one, for fantasy, is still the best and most useful. The other two were mostly duplication save in certain specifics such as job tables and the like.</p><p></p><p>I used them up to a point. Usually I used a few tables to determine family histories or to give a player a few ideas to play with. (OK, and it seems you have an identical twin brother. Cool. -- Hey, I can use that....)</p><p></p><p>The Modern one was... well, there was some odd little change between the second and third book and the preface declared that the Modern book would be the 'op-ed' of gaming and serve to point up the moral decay of modern times. Thus we got stuff like a timeline which has the line 'Congress accelerates moral decay of US' by passing such and such law, and more. Nothing more in the series was done to my knowledge. </p><p></p><p>The Modern one did have some additional features that prevented it from being such a direct copy of the fantasy book with the specifics changed. I'll try to locate my copy and give specifics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 902715, member: 3649"] Yes, I remember it. There were three of them, at least. One for fantasy and one for science-fiction games, then a bit later on one that was for modern/horror/superhero games. It was a pretty darn good product, just full of charts and tables and idea mechanics just waiting to be used. It was adjustable to a number of games, and had suggestions on how to interprete certain results for different systems. The first one, for fantasy, is still the best and most useful. The other two were mostly duplication save in certain specifics such as job tables and the like. I used them up to a point. Usually I used a few tables to determine family histories or to give a player a few ideas to play with. (OK, and it seems you have an identical twin brother. Cool. -- Hey, I can use that....) The Modern one was... well, there was some odd little change between the second and third book and the preface declared that the Modern book would be the 'op-ed' of gaming and serve to point up the moral decay of modern times. Thus we got stuff like a timeline which has the line 'Congress accelerates moral decay of US' by passing such and such law, and more. Nothing more in the series was done to my knowledge. The Modern one did have some additional features that prevented it from being such a direct copy of the fantasy book with the specifics changed. I'll try to locate my copy and give specifics. [/QUOTE]
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