The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs
That’s all there is for Lords of Creation, so let’s round out the week with another bonkers RPG: The World of Synnibarr (1993). This is widely regarded as one of the worst RPGs ever made. Let’s take the name, first. Cinnabar is a mercury-based mineral often used to create red pigment for cosmetics and pottery. […]
Omegakron (1984) is the final scenario box for Lords of Creation. Two more were announced, but never published. The world is poorer for that. The portal from the previous scenario dumps the players 200 years in the future, in post-nuclear holocaust Akron, Ohio (Akron, no surprise, was Moldvay’s adopted hometown — the box includes a […]
The second Lords of Creation, The Yeti Sanction (1984), sees the players recruited by the CIA in order to rescue the Secretary of State, who has been kidnapped. OK, makes sense so far. But how are Yeti involved? Well, he’s been kidnapped by terrorists based at Mount Everest. Those terrorists are funded by aliens who […]
The weirdness of Lords of Creation doesn’t let up in the adventures. They’re nicely packaged, gotta say, each in a slim half inch box, complete with handouts. Avalon Hill had its own presses, so what their RPGs lacked in mechanical polish they more than made up for in presentation. Anyway, this is The Horn of […]
Beholders and Sahuagin and Mind Flayers, oh my! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat about Monstrous Arcana, a series of sourcebooks and adventures late in the D&D 2E days that explored three of the game’s most iconic monsters in alarming detail. The series is one of several crystal balls through which we […]
There really is no shortage of weird ass games out there, but Lords of Creation (1983) is definitely in the running for the weird ass-est crown. This is the work of Tom Moldvay, he of B/X D&D and Isle of Dread. It is billed as a “Role-playing adventure game of travel through time and space.” […]
Beholders and Sahuagin and Mind Flayers, oh my!
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