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Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game
by Chet C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/11/2012 22:27:43

Some call it D20 Light. Some gripe that it's so much like OD&D that they can get OD&D clones for free.

Bah!

I call it Light, all right -- Light hearted and fun! What gives PFRPG its edge, is the fun and almost-whimsical tone of the writing. The style is friendly and encourages reading.

As to playing -- Well, a lot of people like the Knacks. It's a good skill system which doesn't go off into Feat-land, a place which still gives me shudders! The various classes are fun - there are some which are significantly strange that I'd love to play them.

There are some quibbles with realism. My experience is that a person in combat who goes berserk is going to take MORE damage, not less. That's why we trained so thoroughly, so that when a panic situation occurred, we would NOT go berserk. Trust me, I've seen people (fortunately, very few) who "lost it" and became real machines of destruction -- but left their defenses wide open.

I could see this ruleset encouraging good roleplaying and well-structured adventures. Unfortunately for me, I really can't see myself using PFRPG when my two favorite FRPGs (Castles & Crusades and Tunnels & Trolls) cover everything I want or need in a fantasy RPG. There's nothing here to really pull me away from either of those two. And nobody's selling extra hours for the day or extra days for the week....

If you haven't found your perfect rolegame yet, or if you're willing to try something new, you could do worse than try this game. Unlike most rulesets, it's fun to read. And you might get a few good ideas from it, even if you never actually play it as written.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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New Khazan
by Chet C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/11/2012 19:14:58

Difficult to review this, as the author has proved hostile to criticism or reviews. Let's just say that Starfaring is a much superior version of Tunnels & Trolls in Space (and there's rumor of another T&T in Space RPG besides NK and Starfaring) and worth hunting down. (If FBI would think about it, they'd turn it into a PDF and sell it here.)

Starfaring permitted - DEMANDED - that one use one's imagination to fill in the blanks to create something unique. New Khazan's background has the feeling of having been there and done that. Derivative without being interesting, I couldn't recommend it.



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Cloudbusting
by Chet C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/11/2012 19:02:33

A weak entry for a weak game. We're not sure if it's because of its sketchiness or because it feels like one has to follow a certain track to "win." Any time a rolegame has a clear "win" pattern, it makes it difficult for players to come up with their own ideas and determine their characters' fates.

It's very short - way too short for the plot. It's funny - the Keith brothers were able to pack a LOT of story in a very small amount of words in their Traveller adventures. Not too many people seem able to do that. I'm a fan of minimalism, but the writer seems to want the gamesmaster to do ALL the work.

This might have been fine as a short adventure within a magazine, but it utterly fails on its own. Even at a buck-fifty, it seems overpriced.



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WHAP Deluxe Pulp Adventure System
by Chet C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/11/2012 08:51:56

Have to agree. Poorly written and overpriced. Playable, barely, but why bother when there are so many alternatives which are superior? BRP, of course, comes to mind, but there have been so many GOOD pulp RPGs, why bother with such a weak entry? At best, incomplete and hacked out over a weekend. This has been scrubbed from my tablet.



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POW!erful Tales: First Team
by Ken S. A. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/06/2012 11:27:17

I've always loved superheroes and comics, and even though I'm older than dirt, I still read them. Kinda wanted to be a comics writer, but I don't think I have the stamina for it. Writers have to come up with new and better stories all the time, and I only come up with stories a few times a year--maybe once, maybe twice, but the good stories seem pretty far apart.

First Team is a good story, but it's trivial. That's okay. Every story shouldn't be about saving the planet. Some of them should just be the everyday escapades of the characters. That's what this is. A buddy story, and a team-up story, and a fight story. It's the origin story of Captain Scrappy and the Mangod. It's amusing. Told mostly in conversation, the story moves right along. I enjoyed it.

So, why didn't it get a 5 star rating? Two things pulled the story down, imho. There were quite a few typos--as a guy who makes plenty of typos myself I can understand how they might slip through. Spell checkerswoundn't catch them. Secondly, I wanted more art. The one piece on the cover is flat, black and white that any non-artist could do. I'm sure glad this 20 page story was marked down from $15 million dollars to a buck and a half. And Peryton Press didn't bother to make a real book or even magazine out of it. No front and back cover. No title page. Even is my light reading, I'm old and crotchety enough that I like things to conform to the proper Forms. I thought this was a book, but it was only a short story. Small disappointment.

If you like superheroes with a bit of humor thrown in, you'll like Tom's story.



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Elder Tunnels: Halloween 2010
by scott n. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 06/22/2012 12:44:53

This was horrible. There was hardly any subject matter. Not even worth the reduced 4.99 I was hoping to use it as a storyline and mapping for a D&D campaign but it's in my computer trash folder now.



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Elder Tunnels: Halloween 2010
by Michael H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 05/26/2012 16:22:03

With 3 GM adventures and 1 solo adventure, this Elder Tunnels is worth a look! The solo was enjoyable and well-done.



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Under the Sundered Moon Redux Deluxe
by Paul I. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/12/2011 17:58:43

Most excellent! Tom's ripe imagination draws us into the classic tale of the Time Machine, T&T-style! Plenty of background detail and story elements to give it structure, yet plenty of room for a GM to mold this into his own unique adventure, or even a campaign. Anyone familiar with the original tale will feel right at home, and if not, no fear, there is still fun aplenty. Five stars for bringing a steam-punk sci-fi classic to T&T7.5, and for providing a platform for exploring the underrated Citizen character type.



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It Came from Beyond the Stars!
by erik f. t. t. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 12/10/2011 21:39:31

(originally posted at TenkarsTavern.com)

If you are a long time reader of this blog, I'm sure you've heard on of my little rants lamenting the lack of GM or group play adventures for Tunnels & Trolls. T&T is seen as a solo play RPG system by most, but it can really excel in group play. It's just that there has been so little in the way of group play adventures for T&T it's almost laughable.

I can stop laughing now, as It Came From Beyond the Stars is a really nice adventure written for a party of beginning delvers. It even has a Lovecraftian feel to it. Fun to read, I expect it will be even more fun to play. My one complaint is the lack of maps for the adventure area. They aren't needed for play, but would have helped with the atmosphere. Besides, ever group of delver's needs a home base ;)

It's not a long adventure, but T&T generally uses less space for stats and more for the story. Same holds true here.



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A Fragmentary History of Trollworld
by Dan P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/28/2011 02:48:50

This was an interesting read, but I was hopeing that the information presented would have been a bit more informative. I know humor plays a big part for many fans of TNT, but I felt this should have been done with a bit more seriousness. That being said I'd still recomend it for the TNT truest.



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[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Elder Tunnels: Spring 2011
by Ken S. A. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 04/16/2011 01:00:34

Elder Tunnels 3 takes Tunnels & Trolls 7.5 where it has seldom gone before--into the science-fictional future of Trollworld. This 42 page zine contains 3 lengthy adventure, and a gag random treasure table--the gag being that you don't get any loot, just the results of your last date. Brian Penn offers a 15 page solitaire adventure dealing with genetic manipulation. Tom Loney explores magical time travel with Wellsian ramifications. And Michael Eidson demonstrates that the life of an inventor's test subjects are never very easy. All three adventures are written with keen intelligence and elevate role-playing well above the common hack and slash gaming so dear to my heart. Very good stuff indeed!

Disclaimer: I received a free reviewer's copy of the pdf of Elder Tunnels 3, and as the creator of Tunnels & Trolls, I am predisposed to like such material. However, the content of this publication is intellectually far above your general dungeon delving. My only real criticism of the work is that the front cover of Elder Tunnels seems totally irrelevant to the contents.

--Ken St. Andre



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Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game
by Hamilton R. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/17/2010 12:56:28

Peryton's gimmick is its Knack system, which is a good idea. The book has a decent layout; the cover is it's best art. Because it reads like ODaD, it inherits some of the problems of its "parent". There is some innovation here, but not enough to justify the cost if you already have a free copy of some other ODaD clone; save your money if this is so.



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Elder Tunnels: Halloween 2010
by Jeff F. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/20/2010 10:54:21

This is a wonderfully creepy collection for Halloween! David R. Crowell spins a masterfully moody tale with lots of twists in his solo "The Farmer's Daughter". Christina Lea provides a collection of horrid little monsters in her GM adventure, and these beasties would be a wonderful addition to your collection of random monsters to use in other games as well. Mike Larsen provides a series of challenging little "Resurrection Missions". In "Trouble Among the Tumbled Stones", Tom K. Loney delves into Ghoulish culture for an exciting adventure. This is a really nice collection!



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Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game
by Curt M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/25/2010 22:57:29

Two aspects of this retro-d20 game I like:

  1. the knacks system--Castles & Crusades could take a page from Peryton here;

  2. the write-ups of the Mystic, a class less like the Monk of standard d20 and more like an archetypal guru [Jedi, minus the light saber]; and the Templar, a cross between the d20 Cleric and Paladin;

Aspects of the game I don't like:

  1. too few classes;

  2. the magical class it retains is the Gygaxian Wizard; the OD&D convention I like the least is the guy lugging the spell book into the dungeon.

Basically, this is a solid game, but is it better than free retro-d20 fixes, namely Basic Fantasy? No.



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POW!erful Tales
by Eric A. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/23/2010 09:41:03

Some really interesting, often unconventional, superhero stories. Several variations on the superhero theme accompanied by pictures from a variety of artists. If you pay attention, the seemingly disparate stories are tied together by the editor into an unexpected over-arching storyline. Very cool.



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