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I4 An Oasis in a sea of growing turmoil at TSR
Jim Holloway Keith Parkinson Module TSR
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT AOTG'S CURRENT KICKSTARTER TO YOUR RIGHT! AND, WE NEED JUST 20 MORE BACKERS TODAY TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL ARTWORK GIVE AWAY! COME JOIN US AND ROLL THE DICE ON ART! Today I’m going to take a look at one of my favorite module series by one of my favorite artists [and currently a client if anyone needs a commission].Yes indeed, I4 Oasis of the White Palm is the second installment of the Desert of Desolation series written by Philip Meyers and Tracy Hickman. It is for characters 6-8th level, but I always...
Final Fantasy Tactics has some absolutely incredible character design.
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT AOTG'S CURRENT KICKSTARTER TO YOUR RIGHT! I’m not sure when I actually played Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time. I’m figuring it must have been at some point when I was working in the audio department at Circuit City before the turn of the millennia. At the time, I remember various folks in the computer department anxiously previewing trailers for The Fellowship of the Ring, and that at some point they convinced me that if I like FFT, then I had to try Front Mission IV. So, that would be roughly...
Black Gate Guest Blog Today: Robotech!
http://www.blackgate.com/2014/10/15/art-of-the-genre-robotech-anime-rpg-novels-comics-toys-video-games-and-soundtrack-oh-my/
A Trampier take on the Post-Apocaplyse of the 1970s
I was at my yearly game retreat last March and one of my friends had a copy of the third printing, of the initial release, of Gamma World by TSR in 1981. Since the game had been designed in 1978 by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, it had a certain old school feel, but it wasn’t until I actually picked up a physical copy and held it in my hand that I realized all the artwork for it was done by Dave Trampier.That simple fact alone makes this version of the game highly important to the hobby in...
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is one pretty RPG...
I made a character in a Star Wars RPG once, way back in the late 1980s, but I’ve never actually played any version of the game. Still, having been raised on Star Wars during the 1970s, it’s easy to say that I’ve got a certain love affair with it.This always gets further enforced when I see great Star Wars art, and so I was sure to be roped into Fantasy Flight’s RPG release of Star Wars Edge of the Empire because of that fact. I finally broke down and bought a copy of the core book for my birthday...