[Bit of Fun] Guess the RPG from a screenshot of a page spread!

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Sharrow said:
The typography and layout looks very like that of Runequest 2, but it's rules are completely something else.
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Yeah, wasn't published by Chaosium. As far as I can tell, the publisher in question didn't make any other games.
 
Lofgeornost said:
I've not been able to identify your game, though--nor has anybody else, that I can see. From the spelling, it's American rather than British
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Just now able to confirm that, yes, it was an American game.
 
Telok said:
Aye. Too easy huh? Ok, one last easy before I have to start on obscure pdfs... dang it I can't find my save of Devil Bunnies: The Fluffing.

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I have no idea what game or book this is from, but I think I love it.

Lofgeornost said:
The following was not designed as an RPG supplement, but was published that way:

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I'm guessing some sort of supplement for Pendragon, but I don't know enough about that particular game line to hazard a guess beyond that.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
I have no idea what game or book this is from, but I think I love it.
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Well, closest it got to being a game was the fake & super silly yet vaugely plausible character sheet & errata in the back, meant to be photocopied filled and left laying around at cons. But that was in the original book in the 90s that I lent & never got back.

The version in the 00's didn"t have any of the back matter. Those tables weren't in it. In tge 2010's I ordered this latest from the publisher website because it had the tables... but not the fake character sheet or silly errata. Ah, well.

Over all its really just a compilation of funnys from other gaming publications by that publisher. I have seen the random pizza & misdialed phone number tables used in play though, and not just by me.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
I have no idea what game or book this is from, but I think I love it.



I'm guessing some sort of supplement for Pendragon, but I don't know enough about that particular game line to hazard a guess beyond that.
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It's the first edition of Phyllis Ann Karr's The Arthurian Companion, which was indeed published as part of the Pendragon line.
 
rumble said:
Looks old school BRP. Page not flavorful enough to be Stormbringer. Maybe Magic World? I only owned it for a short time, so very unsure.
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Right general era. Wrong company.
 
rumble said:
I love how you have to be anorexic to be unencumbered.
And heavily encumbered just happens if you're big. I mean, yeah, that pic may show someone who's obese, but this game obviously never met Marvel's Kingpin.
I have no clue what this game is.
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I don't know what it is either, but I'd like to. That's a nice creative way to try to illustrate (or even assess) encumbrance levels. It might help math-phobic people not just ignore encumbrance.

Marvel's Kingpin is a super-villain, though, no? I get the feeling this game isn't about supers.

The thing I find funny/lacking is no one in heavy armor, and no one trying to carry a bunch of loot, or too many weapons, etc.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
I'm guessing some sort of supplement for Pendragon, but I don't know enough about that particular game line to hazard a guess beyond that.
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Doctor Wombat said:
It's the first edition of Phyllis Ann Karr's The Arthurian Companion, which was indeed published as part of the Pendragon line.
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Indeed, though The Convenient Skill The Convenient Skill may get credit for the initial identification, since he (or she) got the author.
brettmb said:
I don’t think this one has been answered. It’s What Price Glory?!
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That's right. You really are a maven of older games!
 
Skarg said:
That's a nice creative way to try to illustrate (or even assess) encumbrance levels. It might help math-phobic people not just ignore encumbrance.
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My group always thought it was a nice way to measure encumbrance without tallying everything.
 
Tulpa Girl Tulpa Girl; I'm still stumped on yours, though I've had some fun browsing through Heroic Worlds (via the Internet Archive).

What is the page size for it, by the way?
 
Lofgeornost said:
Tulpa Girl Tulpa Girl; I'm still stumped on yours, though I've had some fun browsing through Heroic Worlds (via the Internet Archive).

What is the page size for it, by the way?
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Pretty standard size; about 8 1/4 by 10 5/8 inches. Just around a quarter inch shorter in length compared to, say, the B/X or T&T rulebooks.
 
Nobby-W said:
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No idea, but I'm really enjoying the idea of someone trying to use "preeval" as a verb, in order to tell someone to stop moving...:grin:

(That's not a verb in Russian, it's closer to "a stop during a travel", "bivouac", and also used as a command for "stop the march" in the army, IIRC...but obviously you can only give that command if you're in the command chain to begin with, and if you're in the army:shade:).
PC, supposedly some kind of freedom fighter: "Preeval! Preeval!".
NPC: "Odurel? Kakoy na fig preeval, tvoyu mat?!?" ("Lost your mind? What fucking bivouac, your mother?")
 
Lands of Adventure by Lee Gold. I stole "Free Load" for Galaxies In Shadow. Really, using a page from a game that came in a shrink wrapped box is a bit cruel.
 
David Johansen said:
Lands of Adventure by Lee Gold. I stole "Free Load" for Galaxies In Shadow. Really, using a page from a game that came in a shrink wrapped box is a bit cruel.
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0bscure product with highish profile names attached. Lee Gold as author and Bill Willingham for cover art. I think I failed last time I tried to make a character for it.
 
Telok said:
Aye. Too easy huh? Ok, one last easy before I have to start on obscure pdfs... dang it I can't find my save of Devil Bunnies: The Fluffing.

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If this hasn't been guessed I think it's Tales from the Floating Vagabond or related
 
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