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Monday, December 11, 2006

Treason point for OgreCave! 

The gaming news site OgreCave.com, ordinarily cordial (or at least benignly silent) toward PARANOIA, posted an annoying observation in its latest 2006 gift guide installment, "Twelve Games Under the Tree." Commenting favorably on the new edition of RuneQuest released this summer by PARANOIA's publisher, Mongoose Publishing, the OgreCave staffers decided to lob a gratuitous and clueless shot:
"Better known for shovelling out numerous d20 System supplements, as of last year Mongoose Publishing was the last publisher you would pick to bring out a new version of a 30-year-old RPG classic and not make it d20."

Citizens of OgreCave, you have treasonously included no response link on your site and have turned off comments on that post. So I use this public venue to instruct you to report to Internal Security's Bright Vision Re-Education Center for attitude alignment. Don't worry, the electrodes are for your benefit!
Posted by: Allen Varney / 3:50 PM

Comments:
Yeah, but PARANOIA's only twenty years old (okay, twenty-two). By the time a game hits the big three-oh, the fondly-held memories of actual play have evapourated all that's left is some vague nostalgia assocaited with the name and a bunch of munchkins saying, "Yeah, RuneThingy - is it D20?"

:-D
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : December 18, 2006 1:25 AM
 
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