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Rough Magic Role Playing Game

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Rough Magic is an RPG with an interesting setting:

Rough Magic is a role-playing game of magic, mystery, and guns in 1960s Europe. Europe is united under the polished boot of the Franco-Prussian Empire, and hex use is ruthlessly regulated and (as a result) enormously profitable.

Think of a cross between Casablanca and Angel Heart.

Play is very loose, and players are encouraged to take initiative rather than simply hanging around and waiting for someone to kick in the door, guns a-blazing. Players are also encouraged to flesh out the setting and be creative, rather than passively accepting what has already been described.

Go!Go!Go! Counter Terrorism Rules

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Jim Wallman has written a set of rules called Go!Go!Go!, which he says is loosely based on the computer game “CounterStrike”.

The Great Wide Open Co-Op and Solo Survival Game

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In The Great Wide Open, you have crash landed in a frozen wilderness and must make your way back to civilization. This print and play game was a BGG contest winner for 2019.

Crossfire Meets AK47 Republic

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Peter Pig’s AK 47 Republic rules are a lot of fun as a campaign game. Set in the turbulent near once and future Africa, there are rules for designing an army, political maneuvering, morale, adn more. Its your chance to run your own little despotic African nation.

But I’ve always thought that the combat rules were a little lacking. Or maybe its just better tos ay that they just aren’t to my style.

Apparently I’m not the only one who had this thought. Steven Thomas has written a set of guidelines for converting AK47 Republic forces to the Crossfire rules by Arty Conliffe.

Pulp Heroes

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I think I’ve got to live to be 100. Otherwise, I’ll never get around to doing all of the periods that interest me. One of those is the “Pulp” era. This site has a large number of resources for the Pulp Gamer, with links to material on Doc Savage (my fave), the Shadow, the Spider, and others. I’d personally like to see someone do a figure of “The Phantom.” The Ghost Who Walks was my late father’s favorite comic hero.