![]() ![]() ![]() Watching a titanic creature devastate a familiar cultural object provides a sinister thrill for viewers it makes the monster that much more intimidating. Giant monsters in particular love wrecking landmarks, or at least getting good spectacle use out of them (such as Kong and the Empire State Building). What? That’s one of the reasons we have national monuments! This is not a defense of Transformers 3: We Won’t Get It Right Until Bumblebee, but a reminder that one of the core purposes of great landmarks across the globe is so they can be destroyed by aliens, robots, and giant monsters on the big screen. As one government official explained, in regards to a planned shoot for the third Transformers film, “The National Mall is not an area in which Americans come to see high-tech action movies being made.” The city of Washington, DC has taken occasional issue with production companies shooting large-scale action and science-fiction movies in the National Mall. Godzilla: 3, Castles: 0 – The History of the Castles Godzilla Wrecked Godzilla: 3, Castles: 0 – The History of the Castles Godzilla Wrecked The only game system I would ever play is Fudge, the best universal system ever and wonderfully flexible, but that only makes it easier to read about other games and sourcebooks - they can all be run in Fudge! I’m also interested in RPG history, since I came of age right as they did, during the advent of AD&D in the late ’70s. So why did I buy this? I’m one of those people who rarely plays RPGs (I don’t know enough people around me who want to) but enjoys reading RPG books as entertainment. Ward, playtest notes, and all the supplemental material and errata published in Dragon and other RPG magazines of the time. This volume contains the original Metamorphosis Alpha manual, an interview with creator James M. Its combination of radiation and mutant people/animals later formed the basis of Gamma World, one of the most out-there RPG settings ever. Originally published by TSR as a slender booklet in 1976, it’s essentially a weird dungeon crawl … IN SPAAACE! … taking inspiration from Brian Aldiss’s novel Non-Stop (which I love, BTW). ![]() This oversized volume arrived in the mail last week: the Deluxe Collector’s edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, the first science-fiction roleplaying game. ![]()
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