OK, I need a reason not to bid on this.

[gridlore]

Swords & Sorcery SPI, 1978

This is one of my favorite board games of all time. On the surface, it is a standard SPI game covering fantasy warfare with some character-driven elements. But then you read the damn thing. Much of the game setting was based on the extremely weird D&D game that designer Greg Costikyan was running for the SPI crew. Puns and in-jokes abound and along with the traditional army units you get Giant Killer Penguins. The entire feel is somewhere between serious wargaming and a RPG session entering it's 17th hour and third case of Mountain Dew.

Aw, hell... someone is selling a mint copy of Freedom in the Galaxy too...

Comments

[allensh.livejournal.com]

Freedom in the Galaxy rocks! I actually borrowed the name of one of the villains in that game for a Star Wars RPG adventure once...Thysa Kimbo :)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

You know that the names in that game are anagrams of SPI employees and playtesters, right?

[allensh.livejournal.com]

Yep, I remember hearing about that :)

[fangorn.livejournal.com]

Stupid frikkin' shrinking Universe

[mikkop.livejournal.com]

Bah, he doesn't promise to post to Finland.

One could think that all EU would be the same, from his point of view.

(Not that I really have the money or the time to play or the room to keep this...)