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that is such a good book! i love it

Brilliantly put, I've always liked the more sensible way it works in later editions, and it's not that big of a change (even if I do get 1st and 2nd edition purists telling me I'm wrong). As well as arranging it more sensibly, they also took away the limits, so your AC could still improve later on, rather than just capping out at -10.

Thank you for the kind comment, glad you liked it.

I must make a video on the James Dallas Egbert III case, and that really kickstarted the Satanic Panic. The assumptions in the search for him, led to everything which came later, even though they were proven wrong when he was found. But because it suited their aims, the lies were repeated for decades.

You're quite right, the members of BADD were few, but they made so much noise they provoked endless interviews and news segments for over a decade.

These videos are just so weird to me. Here in Scotland there was no satanic panic, no one was claiming that D&D led to the devil. I even remember playing in a church hall back in the 80's, without the vicar batting an eyelid as we were just kids playing a board game. If you were a player then people did look down on you, as the only acceptable game for a teenager was Football, and if you were playing D&D then you might as well say you were playing Snakes and Ladders or some other childish game. But these videos are a total glimpse for me into an alternate world I never experienced which I find fascinating.

In some ways I feel sorry for her. She was a mum just trying to find sense in the death of her kid, but she really took that beyond what is acceptable with a decade (and more) long crusade.

Very deserving of it's status as an iconic adventure, well thought out and well formatted (especially for 1978 when they really hadn't got much experience publishing adventures).

I think I'll cover more of it, as this video has been very nicely received. Sometimes it's the games I think most people have forgotten about which get the best comments.

The rules are very well done, working towards co-operative story building, excellent stuff. And the rule book is heavy enough that you could easily defend yourself from any raging beasts you might encounter.

I'll have to do a Rules Breakdown on it some time, and cover the core rules. This was a strange one where I randomly decided to cover an adventure for a game I've never covered before.

Thank you kindly! Your kind comments as always are very much appreciated.

The artwork is really great, so reminiscent of the Movie Posters, perfect in style for James Bond.

It's really excellent, and there's loads to help a starting GM in it, great stuff, hope I brought back pleasant memories.

Cool stuff, looking forward to it, love your channel and your style. Just watched your video on Star Frontiers and loved it, I've a copy of Star Frontiers sitting in my desk waiting for me to get around to making a video on it (problem is the box got lost, and I don't think I've still got all the contents).

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Am perpetually bad with my pronunciation, makes sense now it's explained.

Not sure if I mentioned in my video, but one of the guys in my group (who have been playing together for the past 30 years) is an ex-bishop. He runs D&D for his family, and for our group, and is currently running Alien for us (which is loads of fun). He obviously has certain limits, and everyone happily sticks to those because we like playing with him. If someone else is GM'ing and there's a situation he doesn't feel comfortable with, he just sits back, and usually we'll restrain ourselves as we don't want to make him uncomfortable, and we certainly don't feel limited by that. It's just a matter of having fun with friends and wanting them to have fun too and be comfortable. Many thanks for the thoughtful comment.

There's certain things I like in the more modern versions of Shadowrun (the guesses on future technology in 1989 look pretty outdated now), but the FASA versions were a whole load of fun to play.

It's no where as detailed as this one, but still was pretty cool.

The timeline diverges before that, so they just ignored it. The later licenced version, Twilight 2013 has a different timeline, but I do like that they've now returned to it just being an Alt History version of the 90's.

I believe that's the in-universe reasoning for the split panels on the TIE Interceptor, so the pilot can see to either side. But this just plays into the idea that the TIE Fighters main advantage is that it was cheap and easily manufactured, while were pretty rubbish at everything else.

TNE is the version I've been more familiar with, and I possibly mis-spoke when I said the other versions of the rules were better, it's just they've got such different ideas than most RPG's I found their uniqueness to be a selling point. Whereas the TNE rules are easy, fast, and great fun. It's not that any of them are better, but some definitely have innovative and interesting ideas which I find appealing.

An excellent point, and now you've made me think of it, I instantly thought of HG Wells The Time Machine and it being a retold story.

I find it fascinating, as it's a completely different version of the 80's than I lived through in Scotland. While playing D&D was mocked, it was because you were playing a game so were being childish, rather than any satanic association. Which given how strong the religious establishment of Scotland is, seems pretty weird.

@@RPGGamer Why America got so weird? It's complicated. If you'll humor me, IMO It's 2 things its MTV, because it was trying to be edgy which was too sophisticated for the i love lucy crowd, and its sorta political at root. It has to do with the rise of the religious rightwing, the so-called "moral majority" and it was a reaction to the 60s-70s liberal reforms. Roe v wade in '73, and interracial marriage becoming legal in '67, and segregation ending in '65. The white southern religious right found an ally in Jimmy Carter, and then a match made in heaven with Reagan. He publicly echoed their beliefs even kooky end-times stuff, and they became extremely involved in trying to influence policy, but couldn't do much at the executive level, so they got way better at it in the 90s with the new moral majority in congress, the rise of evangelicals using their congressional seats as missionaries to their constituents, and the contract with America '94 was born. But in the 80s the religious rightwing were still finding a voice, and watching music videos on the brand new MTV with dudes like Ozzy Osborne entertaining their children, scared the normal churchgoing simple folks into a frenzy, they saw devils, and did not like the electric guitars, and when you have religion being shoved down your throat from secular sources, and see devils on TV, well that's probably why satanic panic over Dungeons and Dragons probably struck a nerve more than other places.

Glad to hear it, there's loads to love in this one, sad that they didn't have faith in the original author.

For doing my Rules Breakdown it took me a while to get used to it, but once I made the connections that the Cards are basically just Dice, it clicked. The actual contribution of the Players skills are pretty minor to attempts to do things, so it's a bit random (in some sample card pulls, the Player or GM ended up with cards adding up to 10-20, with the skill level only being 4 or so points. So it's a bit random, more reliant on chance that your character skills.

Wasn't familiar with that game, but a quick google let me see that the set up of the image looks very similar. Same artist perhaps? Or both inspired by another picture?

Loads to love in here, very different to what I expected, as I'd come at it from the Steampunk side of things, but am not unhappy with what I discovered within it's covers.

As I said in the video it was a game which I picked up many times, but just never got around to buying back in the 90's.And now looking through it, there's a load to love. Great system, wonderful setting.

He is a true pioneer. First cyber punk RPG. First Steampunk one. First "anime" one. First Giant Mecha one.

I really thought it was going to be a purer version of Steampunk, but while it's not what I expected it's a lovely Fantasy Mashup, without just being Tolkienesque fantasy. I noticed the lack of Character sheets, but there are still Skills and Attributes of types, so it's not a completely alien system like some I've seen. It seems odd at first, but easy to get to grips with. For the Rules Breakdown, I've used an online card shuffler as the arrangement of my workspace would involve me turning 90 degrees every time I needed to use cards. The online card dealer wasn't perfect, but worked pretty well as I needed cards for the Host and Player Character.

It is indeed.

Yep, I've got the Rebel Starfighter book as well, and will cover it in a few weeks. It's post Rise of Skywalker and Resistance, so had starfighters that I didn't even spot from the movie like the Republic X-Wings. My feelings for the Tie Fighter pilots being cool stem from when I had the action figures back in the 70's when I was just a little nipper, and the black suited Pilot I used as a special forces Stormtrooper (as I didn't actually have a Tie Fighter for him to pilot), a sidekick to Darth Vader.

@@RPGGamer I like the classic TIE Fighter pilots shots where they're inside their TIE cockpits, but when they're walking around the Death Star with Vader they almost look like small kids wearing adult-sized helmets. :D The overall OT Stormtrooper helmet looks awesome, though, and I've always wanted a replica, but could never afford one. And... what? The Republic had X-Wings? I know that they had those weird 6-winged ARC fighters (the ships in the whole prequel trilogy look really weird to me, and unappealing.)

He did reference that at around the 7:30 mark, when he got to the TIE Defender spread.

Yeah, I wish they'd covered all types, but with the Disney Canon, I guess we'll never see any EU stuff in an official book.

I'm aware this has become a thing. I've since backed Kickstarters, which mainly add postage later, although still not all. This was the first time I'd encountered it, and the cost of the shipping was vast, especially when similar sized boxes get delivered by amazon for less than a tenner next day. But while I've gotten used to this, I still think that calculating in postage doesn't seem unreasonable. One of my areas of responsibility in my last management job was Mail Order, and we knew the costs on a yearly basis, contracts signed and agreed and all that. So it really doesn't seem unreasonable to me to expect others to do the same.

It's amazing how even the mid 80's were a completely different era, so what was acceptable then really isn't now.

Lol. I may have an inside man to find out more. Adam (my youngest son who appears in some of my videos), had an interview to work at the shop the other day, and they're checking references but said they'll get back to him a start date, so I'll have insider information :D

@@RPGGamer Haha awesome. Congrats to him and keep us updated on what you learn.

Oh I see it, a roll of 10 or higher counts as 2 successes

Yep, you got it.

They are really nice dice :D

It's constantly saddening how some issues they get it right, but then the rest of the time they just put in so little effort and spread their aim so wide that they don't cover the topics any where near full enough.