Day 9: Awesome Media That Would Make An Awesome RPG

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Day 9: Awesome Media That Would Make An Awesome RPG

My answer to today's official prompt is a brief roll of the eyes, so I'll glance back to the 2015 prompt, which is an endless source of easy answers.

Spinning the media-wheel and landing on "computer games," I still crave a tabletop RPG set in the Zork universe, taking its strongest cues from Beyond Zork but drawing on the whole library (including the Effinger novel, the Activision stuff, and the retroattached Enchanter material). Parts of heaven's grave are shamelessly Zorkian, of course, but gaming-in-the-style-of and actually-adapted-from are very different animals. I envision a very distinct style of adventuring in this world, distinct from both the usual fantasy tabletop model and from the inventory-puzzle source material ... an ensemble-oriented style built upward from the chorus of satiric voices that shaped where Zork has gone so far, paving new roads for its future.

#RPGaDay #RPGaDay2017 My approach: https://goo.gl/fHnbFU

California Gaming Part II - LSD&D with Erol Otus #RPGaDAY Not much reference to Holmes here, but Otus was an...

California Gaming Part II - LSD&D with Erol Otus #RPGaDAY Not much reference to Holmes here, but Otus was an illustrator on some printings of B2: Keep on the Borderlands, included with many Holmes Basic boxed sets.

My first RPG purchased - the Holmes Basic D&D rules.

My first RPG purchased - the Holmes Basic D&D rules... for cheap! Plus, an obligatory shout out to the Zenopus Archives. #RPGaDAY

#firstrpg #rpgaday As you may have known, my first RPG was Holmes Basic.

#firstrpg #rpgaday As you may have known, my first RPG was Holmes Basic. What's surprising is that this was in 1982, well after the next Basic Set (Moldvay) had been released in early '81. My neighbors who I first played with had the same set, with B2 and chits (ad for this version below, scan by Allan Grohe). So its influence lasted longer than just the publishing dates would suggest. As late as 1986 you could still buy the Holmes set from the TSR mail order hobby catalog.