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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8660952" data-attributes="member: 20564">Mike's games.  Huh, what's that, it that an RPG?  Well, it was collection of overlapping Champions and AD&D (later AD&D 2e) campaigns run by a friend of mine.  It's where I really learned to roleplay.  Mike ran like 3-6 games a week.  And the D&D ones were all in different parts of his Forgotten Realms, and the Champions ones where all in his world as well.  (He was later published for Champions, a number of products like Foxbat for President.)  Our games were glorious soup opera dramas as well as high adventure of the appropriate sort.  Who hates who, who's dating, you name it.  There were frequent crossovers between groups, it was just this huge pot of characters and rivalries and love triangles and death and marriage and whatever.  He later became more hidebound as a GM and too in love with unintended consequences (meaning negative consequences) of every action, but those years in our teens and 20s were glorious.Spirit of the Century.  Never got to play it, but it opened my eyes to RPGs that could be different than D&D.  When I first saw it, I think it was FUDGE/proto-FATE, though Wikipedia says it was FATE3.Secret Hitler.  Okay, horrible name.  Not quite my first hidden sides game, I think that was a Battlestar Galactica boardgame, but the whole social deduction of it I really enjoyed as a new type of game.  Just like when a cooperative boardgame laid out new ground, so did this.  Still, the name, but what can you do?</blockquote>

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