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<blockquote data-quote="Theron" data-source="post: 3601437" data-attributes="member: 2326">A buddy of mine loved that game.&nbsp; He desperately wanted to run it, but a bunch of dedicated Hero System players all thought it looked too hard.&nbsp; He finally talked my brother and I into running a &quot;simple&quot; one-on-one combat he refereed.&nbsp; IIRC, it took three hours.Some of the setting stuff looked pretty cool, though.The prize bits of my collection aren't obscure, but they're rare due to age:Call of Cthulhu, 1st edition boxed setVillains &amp; Vigilantes, 1st editionBoot Hill, the little yellow digest sized rulesMetamorphosis AlphaGamma World, 1st editionI used to have &quot;Wings of the Valkyrie,&quot; a Champions adventure that got pulled by the publisher due to some controversial content, but I sold it off a few years ago.One that does qualify as obscure was called, &quot;Professional Wrestling.&quot;&nbsp; It was a little digest-size game of, well, professional wrestling.&nbsp; The combat system was clearly derived from GDW's En Garde!, but the designers went wild with the crazy stuff.&nbsp; There were random tables to determine the wrestler's costume and schtick, and random event tables to generate crazy things that went on during a match.&nbsp; Of course, the point wasn't to pin your opponent so much as to pull off maneuvers that would add to your popularity score.&nbsp; We killed a lot of high school lunch breaks with it.I've also got a Spanish printing of the WEG Star Wars that I picked up on a lark at a used bookstore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Theron, post: 3601437, member: 2326"] A buddy of mine loved that game. He desperately wanted to run it, but a bunch of dedicated Hero System players all thought it looked too hard. He finally talked my brother and I into running a "simple" one-on-one combat he refereed. IIRC, it took [i]three hours[/i]. Some of the setting stuff looked pretty cool, though. The prize bits of my collection aren't obscure, but they're rare due to age: Call of Cthulhu, 1st edition boxed set Villains & Vigilantes, 1st edition Boot Hill, the little yellow digest sized rules Metamorphosis Alpha Gamma World, 1st edition I used to have "Wings of the Valkyrie," a Champions adventure that got pulled by the publisher due to some controversial content, but I sold it off a few years ago. One that does qualify as obscure was called, "Professional Wrestling." It was a little digest-size game of, well, professional wrestling. The combat system was clearly derived from GDW's [I]En Garde![/I], but the designers went wild with the crazy stuff. There were random tables to determine the wrestler's costume and schtick, and random event tables to generate crazy things that went on during a match. Of course, the point wasn't to pin your opponent so much as to pull off maneuvers that would add to your popularity score. We killed a lot of high school lunch breaks with it. I've also got a Spanish printing of the WEG Star Wars that I picked up on a lark at a used bookstore. [/QUOTE]

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