This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we drag out West End Games’ weird universal system, MasterBook, and its bizarre licenses. Why would you refurbish the shuttered RPG Torg into your universal game when the D6 system was right there? Why would you think the movie Species was ripe for RPG adaptation? Or Tales from the Crypt? Mysteries abound.
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Perhaps it was the fact that West End was 90 minutes from me, and would often be a dealer at our one-day conventions at the Legions, selling their overstock and scratch and dents ($3 softcovers, $5 hardcovers), plus we had a pair of wild TORG GMs that kept things rowdy in our area all through the 90’s.
I had planned on taking my D&D campaign world into Masterbook (the limited edition hardcover was screaming “Use Me!”) I was almost ready to re-launch the newest campaign in the world… when the pendulum swung the other way and I double-downed on Hackmaster. I don’t regret the change, but I would have liked to work through the turnip cart full of idiosyncrasies I kept uncovering.