Title: Purchasing some out of print RPG books
Slug: purchasing-some-out-of-print-rpg-books
Date: 2010-04-20 14:47:00
Tags: RPG,Cyberpunk,Megatraveller


<p>Thanks to my friend Vicente now I'm doomed too and I've started buying old and out of print pen&amp;paper RPG books.</p>

<p>To test it, I've bought two books, Megatraveller and Cyberpunk 3rd edition.</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaTraveller#MegaTraveller">Megatraveller</a> (1986!!!) is a space sci-fi RPG with heavy focus on the creation of characters, settings, worlds, and even spaceships. Characters have to choose a profession as background, you can design your own space (and have space fights), and in general get as deep as you want.</p>

<p>I learned about this game playing the old Amiga games (<a href="http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/39-rpg/20386">Megatraveller I</a> and <a href="http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/39-rpg/20387">II</a>), and I recall having seen this boxed set (contains three books plus a huge hexagonal star chart) when I was quite young, so I couldn't miss this opportunity :D</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020#Cyberpunk_203X">Cyberpunk 3rd edition</a> is the other book. As can be seen in the photo, I alreaady own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020#The_World_of_Cyberpunk_2020">the 2nd edition</a> in spanish. In fact I didn't knew there was a semi-recent new revision (2005), so why not giving it a try...</p>

<p>From the intro and first look, seems that the complex rules of Cyberpunk 2020 have been simplified and streamlined a lot (the game was quite hard to learn and play, and also very easy to die after all the effort demanded for setting everything up).</p>

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<p>I need time to read them but looks like I'll be searching for more old RPGs...</p>
