Archive for the ‘Japanese role-playing games’ Category

The Fabulous Women of Phoenix ComiCon 2011   8 comments

Atroll attended the Phoenix ComiCon 2011 over the Memorial Day weekend.  While I was there, running games like Trollhalla and Tunnels and Trolls, I encountered a superabundance of beauty and imagination.  Here then is my inadequate tribute to the Fabulous Women of Phoenix ComiCon. This is Sam. Catwoman never looked so good. Sam volunteered at Game [...]

The Rest of the Pix   Leave a comment

Lacking anything really important to say today, I thought I’d just put up the rest of the pictures from the Hobby Japan RPG anthology.                   That’s it!  You’ve seen everything in that gamebook.

Wizardry–Pix from a Game Book I can’t read   2 comments

Back in 1991, Hobby Japan released an anthology of 5 tabletop rpgs, and I showed a little of their illustrations for it in my blog yesterday.  Then WordPress went crazy on me, and refused to allow me to finish my blog.  I don’t understand why the software worked up to a point and then stopped [...]

Scenes from Japanese roleplaying   Leave a comment

Way back in 1991 Hobby Japan published an anthology of popular tabletop roleplaying games.  Five games were included: Rune Quest (Avalon Hill Dark Ages Europe version), Mega Traveler, Tunnels and Trolls, Call of Cthulhu, and Wizardry. All of those games originated in the United States, but Wizardry started as a Dungeons and Dragons clone of [...]

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