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I_Abibde posted...

IIRC, the reason they had Peter Wyngarde wear that mask in the first place was so that the audience would not immediately know it was him, since he was in the process of shrugging off a 'public indecency' scandal at the time.

Yeah, I was aware of that. Though that was more for the potential UK audience, because almost no one in the US knew or cared who he was at the time.



I_Abibde posted...

This sounds about right. I am honestly surprised that the game had a life cycle that long, but that speaks favorably of the dedication of its fan base. There are probably things to be said about the life and death of tabletop game fandoms.

I'm always still kind of amused that Amber DRPG has the lifespan it does in spite of the original books it was based on ending in the mid-90s when the author died, and the RPG system itself not really getting re-released since the 80s due to the death of the designer and convoluted rights issues (and the one company that finally managed to sort the rights issues out going bankrupt before they could actually put out a second edition).

But yeah, in a marketplace where it seems like almost no games last all that long (other than the Big Three of Magic, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh), L5R managed to hang on for a long time. Doubly impressive when you realize it was never supposed to last past 1997, and the company told the designers "We are making a ton of money off this, you absolutely need to make more."



I_Abibde posted...

Meanwhile, a dungeon I designed for my D&D 5E group is going over pretty well. Putting the gelatinous cube inside an armored box with little holes for its pseudopods was a good way to get the players thinking. Almost makes up for putting the gorgon at the end of a tight passage (... where its breath weapon is pretty much unavoidable).

My brain immediately went to "Heat Metal". That would be an absolutely evil spell to use on a monster like that.


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