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Friday, September 26, 2008

PARANOIA RPG.net review by Rory Hughes 

RPG.net has published a quirky but positive review of PARANOIA (Style: 5; Substance: 5) written by Rory Hughes while, as he says, he was waiting for his visa to clear. Let Rory's example inspire all loyal citizens who are waiting in line at the bank, supermarket, auto repair shop, or Central Processing Unit Form Validation Supervisory Inspection Queue. Use those idle moments to write a review of PARANOIA, the game that makes waiting in line fun! (For certain definitions of "fun.")

RPG.net reviewers have been kind to PARANOIA. In eight reviews to date, they have awarded the game an average Style rating of 4.25 and average Substance rating of 5.00 (on a scale of 5). At this writing, the PARANOIA rulebook holds a high position in the increasingly comprehensive RPG.net Game Index, with a rank of #23 out of 10,766 products. Among core rulebooks, PARANOIA right now ranks #11 out of 1,176 games, the highest it has yet reached and by far the highest of all Mongoose Publishing products.

And -- huh! -- I only now notice from the Game Index that PARANOIA (correction: the Mongoose PARANOIA card game, which I had nothing to do with) won an Origins Award in 2007 and was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. (The game's first edition won an Origins Award in 1984.) I presume the committee's notification will arrive shortly after clearance from CPU's Form Validation Supervisory Inspection Queue.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 8:05 AM

Comments:
Congratulations on your Origins award Allen! Perhaps now you'll be promoted to one of those clearance ranks higher than even Ultraviolet that oficially don't exist but we all know have to be part of the system even though it's treasonous to mention th--
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : September 27, 2008 2:33 PM
 
The Paranoia card game received a 2007 Origins Award, which presumably was this reference. Regrets on spoiling the party Johnny-b-goo was proposing to throw on this account for Allen...
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : October 01, 2008 12:44 AM
 
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