Thursday, April 14, 2022

Mail Room: Adventures Dark & Deep

Where did this game come from?

So I am sitting here, mulling the concept of magic resistance and wondering if this is a "make or break" factor for my OSR game of choice, when I see another AD&D retro-clone sitting in the back of the classroom, desperately raising his hand for attention, and saying, "Ooh! Oooh! I have magic resistance too!"

Mind you, this is the kid with the "Iron Maiden" t-shirt and the knit cap, patched-up jeans with holes still in them, natural hemp woven belt, and some biker belt-buckle his dad gave him. That "dude" look on his face. A denim vest that looks like the arms were ripped off the jacket, covered with patches. Also, he made his own tattoos on his hands with a ballpoint pen. All his books are covered in paper bags, with rock art all over them, and the book titles embellished as if they were band names. He has stickers from packs of bubble gum on his locker door.

Are you in my class?

And I read this game and this is the game AD&D would have made if it were tasked with writing AD&D. It is that band that comes along and plays a speed metal riff so incredible you have never heard anything like this before. And when the record finishes you sit in silence, the needle spinning at the end of the record with that soft "ka-thump" noise coming through the speakers as it endlessly plays the silent end of the vinyl LP.

I never knew a game could be more AD&D than AD&D.

Yet here it is.

More on this game soon.

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