Eat your heart out, Fellow Gamers....

[Teflon Billy]

I just went to the awesome Imperial Hobbies[/b] annual clearance event, and there, marked down from $47.95 to $12.50 was...

Raven C.S. McCracken's WORLD OF SYNNIBAR

It is roundly considered by nearly-all to be one of the most power-gamey, nonsensical, "Kitchen Sink" RPG's ever committed to print, and I have craved it for years. $47.95 was too much.

$12.50? I'm so there

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Raven C.S. McCracken's WORLD OF SYNNIBAR

 

[Ghostwind]

I'm sure there are gamers who would have gladly given you their copy if they had only known of your desire to own one of the "worst games ever created"...

 

[Crothian]

ummm...congradualtions...?? I guess this seems like a good thing for you. Are you going to run it at Gen Con?

 

[Shemeska]

There's a nearly mint condition copy of that wretched piece of gaming history thats been staring at me from a shelf at one of the local used bookstores in my area, and so far I've done my best to avoid even accidentally touching it.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Ok, now I'm curious. What exactly was this? I thought I'd at least heard of pretty much everything out there....

 

[Chris Tavares]

$12.50? Dude, you got robbed - I bought it for $3.00 at a con about 7 years ago.

You've gotta love a game where the example of play has a line like:

Only 1000 points of damage? Man, what a sucky roll.

 

[maddman75]

Sign me up for the inevitable PbP game.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Contrary to my expectations, the World of Synnibarr did not suck all of the flesh off of my face, leaving behind only a screaming skull. It did not rape my other gaming products, leaving them pregnant with “neomods”, McCracken-speak for something as simple as a gaming module. It did not shoot twin streams of hydrochloric acid into my eyes, nor did it squat on my chest and stare at me when I was trying to sleep.

But it God-Damn well should have, because any of the above would have been better than actually trying to review this bastard.

A review that should have been a one-man stand-up act.

BTW, it got straight "1's" for a score.

I tried to review it. I really did. But you can only hold your face to the blowtorch for so long

 

[Teflon Billy]

I'm sure there are gamers who would have gladly given you their copy if they had only known of your desire to own one of the "worst games ever created"...

I am a creature of extremes I guess.

I hold "Incredible crap" in about the same regard as I do "Astonishing Quality"...I think they arw about equally hard to produce.

Anyone can crank out "Functional, Journeyman Product" or "So-So, poorly exectuted dreck", but it akes something "special" to create the truly inspired...or something bizarrely awful.

Ask yourself: could any other product have geerated a review like Darrens?

I doubt it.