Stephen Lee wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>[snip]
> >PS: Never mind, I think I figured it out: He's uneducated; he listed
> >Fountain of Dreams as "very rare Wasteland sequel". It's not rare at
> >all, nor is it the true sequel.
>
> It isn't the true sequel, but it is fairly uncommon, and it was
considered
> a sequel (until people realised that Tim Cain wasn't even part of the
> project! ;)
>
> Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams, IIRC, were for many years the only two
> post-nuke RPGs in the market
>Well, heh, Fountain of Dreams was generally considered to be better than
>Scavengers of the Mutant World.
Yeah, I forgot that one :(
>OTOH, I'd like a copy of Scavengers,
>since, well, it's an RPG and I don't have a copy.
Seems to be pretty rare, I haven't found it anywhere either. Not that I've
looked too hard, but I really haven't seen it.
>(That's another for
>your list. Superhero League of Hoboken isn't a post-nuke scenario, BTW;
>it's more of a post-acute-global-warming-and-other-assorted-catastrophes
>scenario.)
It's nevertheless a post-catastrophe RPG, and the game surely looks like
it's post-nuke... it's hard to call it simply "sci-fi", so Jim may want to
include it on the post-nukes.
>I think there were one or two other old post-nuke RPG's as well, but they
>were all comparable in quality to Fountain of Dreams from what I can
>remember.
I've never played much FoD, I admit, so I can't share my opinion, but as
far as RPGs go, I think we have them all covered...
I just remembered a whole new category... "Terror games", or do you have it
already, Jim?
>-- Stephen
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