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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9242552" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I have a choice.Cyborg Commando. The game itself is, perhaps, not the most terrible game ever. But it is bad. Most of the choices made in the game are, at best, baffling- for example, IIRC, the rulebook spends countless pages detailing population statistics (and also how to generate them), and include maps of all the Cyborg Commando bases, but doesn't actually tell you anything about Cyborg Commando bases. There are so many rules and formulas and conversions ... most of which I can't imagine using in actual gameplay, and the character creation rules (and skills) which have both a basic and advanced component are just ... bad (unless you really need to have obstetrics and gynecology as a skill, which, I mean, points for realism I guess ... but I'm not sure why you'd need to include two different skill levels for ... domestic arts?). But the reason it was so bad is that it was the first TTRPG from Gary Gygax after his ouster from TSR. At that time, many people still believed that he had a singular vision, and looked forward to the game. The game made it clear that he was no longer a driving force in the industry as he was in the '70s and early '80s, and (perhaps) showed just how valuable the other contributors at TSR were to the game we had been playing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9242552, member: 7023840"] I have a choice. [I]Cyborg Commando[/I]. The game itself is, perhaps, not the most terrible game ever. But it is bad. Most of the choices made in the game are, at best, baffling- for example, IIRC, the rulebook spends countless pages detailing population statistics (and also how to generate them), and include maps of all the Cyborg Commando bases, but doesn't actually tell you anything about Cyborg Commando bases. There are so many rules and formulas and conversions ... most of which I can't imagine using in actual gameplay, and the character creation rules (and skills) which have both a basic and advanced component are just ... bad (unless you really need to have obstetrics and gynecology as a skill, which, I mean, points for realism I guess ... but I'm not sure why you'd need to include two different skill levels for ... domestic arts?). But the reason it was so bad is that it was the first TTRPG from Gary Gygax after his ouster from TSR. At that time, many people still believed that he had a singular vision, and looked forward to the game. The game made it clear that he was no longer a driving force in the industry as he was in the '70s and early '80s, and (perhaps) showed just how valuable the other contributors at TSR were to the game we had been playing. [/QUOTE]

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