gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Gaming - Ogre)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2007-06-26 04:15 pm
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OK, I need a reason not to bid on this.

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...

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
You know that the names in that game are anagrams of SPI employees and playtesters, right?

[identity profile] allensh.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, I remember hearing about that :)