![]() ![]() ![]() 2) Write a game with a genuine old-school, 1970s feel, reminiscent of early D&D (…) // 3) Write a game that would be totally coherent with Paul's article : a game that would 'feel' as 'the first RPG that never was' or perhaps, more accurately, the first RPG that could have been'. From my perspective, it was a triple challenge : // 1) Write a complete game in English (which is not my native language). “I wanted to write this game as a personal exercise in game design. They could even call it 'Dungeons and Dragons.'” Got it? Not yeat? Ok, let’s go to Olivier’s more extensive presentation: I’ll just stick to the core idea: “You wanna know what I think? With the release of M&M D20 I think someone should go back to Gary's first idea and produce a Medieval version of 'Mazes and Minotaurs'. I’ll not detail the thing because you can read it yourself. Unlike Olivier’s previous games, M&M is in English and there is a story to it that started with Mithras at a RPGnet column. I’m still waiting for the yellow pack with my M&M drops to arrive in my mail, though. I obliged, specially since I had not long before (days? weeks?) downloaded his excellent Gnomes and his no less excellent La Terre des Héros (both games in French since Olivier’s grand-grand-grand-father was actually named Olivierix). He wanted me to review Mazes & Minotaurs. One day I discover in a RPGnet Open forum thread that Olivier Legrand was looking for me. You can review it as a book, you can review how much it helps, but reviewing an individual session can (at its worst) be as useless as reviewing an individual snowflake.” The book helps create the game, but it can only help. As Greg Stolze once said, “The book is the book and the game is the game. It’s based on the concept that one can review a game book even without playtesting and still provide useful data to the person interested in the game and the game book. After the review you can find links to the games that were covered before. By fantasy I mean pre-modern fantasy involving low levels of technology (up to the equivalent of 15th century Europe without gunpowder guns), magic and fantastic creatures. The present review is part of a series of reviews of fantasy games. ![]()
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