AGG/GAG unearths games for a rainy day
Created | Updated Jan 21, 2003
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This week: Subcomandante Deidzoeb
digs for buried Monopoly money.
I got the new d20 edition Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game rulebook a few weeks back, so I've been immersing myself in role-playing, haunting gamer message boards, thinking of newer and better ways to torment my gaming group. Made me wonder what games are lurking in the underbelly of h2g2, waiting to be found. The idea was to assemble one special gaming issue of AGG/GAG, but our fearless leader jwf suggested I make an on-going game of it. I'll try to find a new game-related entry each week for AGG/GAG, keeping a running list at the AGG/GAG Repository of Games for a Rainy Day. Besides the freeform games around h2g2, there are plenty of articles about table-top games, board games and card games that haven't seen the light of day. Here a few good ones...
played on H2G2
Motorcycling Superheroes - the Role-Playing Game
For those of you who always wondered what was missing from your superhero role-playing games, here it is: motorbikes. "Your character can be of any profession, and will be able to use the skills and knowledge of that profession. And you can also ride a motorcycle." The fact that your superhero will be bikin' in the vicinity of Bondi Beach, Sydney, makes it even cooler than typical hero stories set in boring, old Manhattan or Metropolis.
bio of a legendary game designer
Dave ArnesonQuick: read this unedited article about the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. You have to do it quickly if you want to brag that you read it before it got into the Edited Guide. It would be worth reading even if the real Dave Arneson hadn't posted a reply under this guide entry, making corrections and clarifications. [Maybe it's someone else who just created the h2g2 username "Dave Arneson," but it looks like the real dude might have read this article about himself, perhaps checking search engines for his own name, as we all do now and then.]
card game
Full Body Contact SnabGrab
with weapons and body armour
Actual snippet from the rules: "...If, however, he's a more experienced player than you, he will counter your counter. Your dagger blade breaks off as it hits the reinforced back of your opponent's gauntlet. The backhand cosh blow glances harmlessly against his helmet (which he was wearing a bobble hat over so you wouldn't notice) and now his left hand, which is of course NOT pinned to the table..." (Yes, there's a card game in there somewhere.)
If this game ended too quickly for you, browse through the AGG/GAG Repository of Games for a Rainy Day. Drop a message there if you know of other entries that should be included.
We, the undersigned, undesigned, undesirables of AGG/GAG, will still be found lurking
in the slightly embarrassed
h2g2 Post.
As always, we'd be much obliged if you wanted to
join us.
- ~jwf~ plays with his initials until they look like an elephant or alien or something.
- (tonsil revenge) plays through.
- Subcom.Deidzoeb shamefully promotes his own game, No, You Mean Don Ho!, in AGG/GAG.
- Spaceman Spiff plays Milles Bournes.
- Martin plays with dice.
- Sir Bossel plays cops and robbers.
- Hobbes plays well with others.
- Zaphod plays thumb war.
- Thirdgirl took her ball and went home.
- your name here
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