Question: If you buried a box full of nonperishable foods (like Twinkies and Campbell soup) in your backyard, would those provisions become available to your Gamma World characters if they knew the right place to dig in Far-Go? :-)
@@UndeadVikingVideos GM to players: "You come across a few pieces of concrete and glass scattered amongst the grass, all that remains of your house from the 20th century. Looking down, a small roundish object catches your eye. It's a polyhedral die . . ."
Hey, grew up there too! I can mentally map out the place for players too, right down to the mangled wreckage of South High. Maybe have mutant bruins in there. 😄
I own the 1st ed. boxed set of Gamma World as well as the Legion of Gold module, but never played it. I always thought a Gamma World campaign would be really fun, but never found anyone interested in it back when I was in high school to try it out. This module looks like a lot of fun and the chicken processing plant with the Colonel Sanders militant bird in the officer's hat artwork are what are drawing me into this module. Sadly, this retired old game system would need to be brought into a 21st century D&D 5e style update for my group to try out. Which I think would also be cool.
Having grown up in Fargo I really need to run this sometime. I can mentally map out the valley in great detail. Modified for things like the wreckage of my high school, of course. 😝
For anyone who missed these, Interloper has some 28mm miniatures that would be, ah, let's call them "appropriate" for use with this module, and Gamma World in general. One-eyed chicken-men: interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/three-beaks/ interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/cocked-rifles/ Some other very post-apocalyptic stuff on their main store page: interloperminiatures.com/minis/
I got the Gamma World first Edition core rulebook plus the extra books you mention. I never got a chance to play this back in the day but I'm playing this now with my group. Love your reviews brother. Keep up the good work.( of course I used your link for drive-through RPG on the last video to buy it)
Now you got me thinking of doing the prep work for a possible Gamma World game I've been kicking around for a hot minute. This and your full GW review has put Gamma World as a whole into perspective for me as a GM on how it works. I'm going to snatch up the POD of the rulebook and this adventure to have but also read through.
I totally agree! This following type of scenario is one that I have begun but yet to finish, but the premise, is basically the same as expedition to the barrier Peaks, except that it's not expedition to the barrier Peaks. I feel like there's a million ways to incorporate future Tech into your D&D game, and that could lead to Gamma World specific campaigns, or a mixture of gamma world and Dungeons & Dragons. I know the crashed spaceship idea was the original, but it was also very unique. What is the NPC's witnessed a spaceship or time travel capsule crashing? Maybe have a Green Lantern esque campaign where the dying alien bestows power, or rather shares his future Tech with the PCS. You know those first level magic users people always laugh about having so few hit points and very limited if not just one spell? Well how about some plasti Steel armor , and maybe a limited capacity Blaster pistol for a Last Resort. Basically give your lower level party a Fighting Chance, and if at any point they seem overpowered, well, that's when the batteries die... Hahaha , or rather the power cells run out or whatever it is they do back then, or in the future, or... oh well oh, I'm sure you guys are picking up what I'm putting down
All of our characters survived the adventure. Couple us had mutated animals in the village. None of us ate the berries and our GM had to adjust fast. 😊
Wow! That is one from the way back machine! Thank you for sharing such an awesome collection of adventure content. As usual another big thumbs up, amazing work and collection!
Very nice review. What a classic module...mutant gun-totin' chickens at a robotic chicken processing plant...I mean, what else could you want?! I will gladly watch every Gamma World review you do, and on that note, I sincerely hope you do every module and rulebook of at least the first three editions.
A GM could attempt to mitigate the rail-roading a bit by having the chicken processing plant and meteor be optional areas. Or at least that the PCs don't need to go right to them after eating the berries. They return from their rite of passage, get their names, and as new adults are informed of the dire straits their village is in due to famine (as if they didn't already know). And that it's necessary for their village's survival for the PCs to venture forth again, looking for solutions. This could lead to them finding clues pointing to the chicken processing plant, or other sources of food (like a homebrew supermarket that may have canned goods stashed somewhere, guarded by monsters). Or they could investigate the impact site, to remove the source of the famine. At all times up to this point, they might encounter the badders randomly or as scripted encounters. Only by clearing out their lair will the PCs and the village be freed from their attacks. Basically, treat it as a normal sandbox adventure module, rather than a single long outing. The village acting as their home base.
That's pretty creative, and a great solution to the railroading problem. You could also have the meteor strike will the characters are off on their Rite of Adulthood, seeing the bright starfall.... cool ideas!
Always a pleasure to see you post videos, your attitude and approach to reviews is a joy to watch. You seem like someone I'd like to game with some day. It's also neat you're giving your thoughts on these "old games", and I feel showing how they still have merit and potential even to this day. Once again thank you.
@@captcorajus The cards were a turn-off for a lot of people but I will say this much for it, it took a traditionally gonzo setting and cranked the dial to 11 before breaking off the knob and setting fire to the amps. Also thought the shift from the very 80s "civilization destroyed by nuclear war" motif of the earlier editions to "civilization destroyed when super-collider experiments fracture time and space" thing was a neat touch. Some people were seriously convinced that was going to happen back then, a bit of science paranoia on par with the first nuclear bomb setting the entire atmosphere on fire back in the 40s. Didn't hurt that the mutants, robots, and other weirdness were all pretty much fully compatible with 4E D&D either, and yes I absolutely did throw an alien saucer at my adventuring party one time. :)
@@richmcgee434 That super collider angle story wise is a good touch. Might add that into the background for a gamma world game i'm thinking of running.
*Great video, as always... As no one has yet, you aught to do a video review of the 88' Forgotten Realms module, "Ruins of Adventure", the module that was based on the novel and the classic SSI Gold Box computer game, "Pool of Radiance"... I myself played Pool of Radiance on my Amiga back in the early 90's, then read the novel, and then purchased the module, although I never played through the module... While it might not have been as classic as the oldschool 1st edition AD&D modules, it really fleshed out the playing of the Amiga game and the reading of the novel, and it correlated closely with both of them... And with that familiar cover of Ren o' the Blade slashing his sword at the bronze dragon, Tyranthraxus, it was a classic in its own way... Anyway... Just a thought... Thanks again for all the great videos!*
Would gladly play AS a one-eyed gun toting chicken, thank you very much. ;) EDIT: Played Gamma World back in the day and played as a mutated Golden Retriever with Energy Absorption and Energy Transformation (the jackpot of mutation random rolls)...and I recall the Kieth Parkinson cover of the game.
I got my friends to play it when I told them you could play as a bear with wings that could shoot energy beams out of its eyes and that could turn invisible . One of my players made his dog as a character that had anti life leach , heighted speed and had a Centaur like body named Bosko . Another player had a mutant human that had wings , 4 arms , a tail and heightened intelligence . Once they started playing that's all they wanted to play and our AD&D campaign got put on hold for a few months . They loved the fact that the characters hit points were based on their constitution in d6 giving them greater survivability instead of only gaining 1 HD alevel
I like the mutant plants and animals in this setting. It really helps to distinguish it from other fantasy products out there. Plus the radiation theme gives it a fallout feel. I think you have done a great review Cap. However, your great overview aside, I can't say that I am interested in playing the game. I might considering reading a Gamma World story, as the world is definitely a novel one (pun intended), but I don't think the game itself would scratch my dnd itch. All that said, keep the good stuff coming and game on!
Oh, i dont' know. Exploring the ruins of the ancients? Encountering not orcs, but mad androids, malfunctioning security droids, wild mutated animals? To us, Gamma world was basically D&D, but with a gonzo, sci-fi twist. You might be surprised at how a change of genre can get your creative juices flowing.
@@captcorajus You ARE the expert in this area, so I will defer to your judgement. As I stated before, the setting is very interesting and the gonzo sci-fi eleme ts are unique. Having never played the system, my opinion is solely based on your reviews.
If you're interested in Gamma World books, Nick Pollotta wrote American Knights and 24-Hour War for TSR back in the 90s. They're "choose your path" style adventure books but still manage to be pretty good reads, get the crazy setting across well, and are loosely connected to each other. There was supposed to be a third one called Freed-For-All but TSR died before it was released. Maybe WotC will salvage it someday as an e-book or PoD. If you're a fan of "trashy" scifi/fantasy/supernatural with a heavy dose of satire I'd recommend just about everything Pollotta ever wrote, particularly the Bureau 13 series (based on the RPG of the same name), Illegal Aliens (coauthored with Phil Foglio of the old Dragon strip What's New?) and That Darn Squid God. He also did a lot of "men's adventure" genre stuff under pen names, including Deathlands (a less gonzo post-apoc setting) and some of the endless Mack Bolan and Stony Man series, which I can't endorse quite as heartily.
Not sure if you came upon this or not, as you didn't mention it. The 1st Ed AD&D DM's Guide has conversion rules for GW to AD&D/AD&D to GW, pages 113 and 114 of the DMG. Another informative post. Thank you.
Yah, I've never actually seen Gamma World until this video, but I was aware of it because of that mention in the 1st ed. AD&D DM's guide. Nice to finally see it.
Hey Captain I think I accidentally sent creator feedback to you (I accidentally hit something while cooking) if I did ignore that. I love your videos I’m actually thinking about doing something like this with Crawling Under a Broken Moon
You should start listing Style, Presentation and Value horizontally across the screen, with the dice beneath them instead of to the right. That would give you more room.
Just turn your phone sideways when you're watching ... duh.. To Captain Capricornificopia, Keep being amazing! You are the number one old school TH-camr, hands down. Our Lord and Saviour, the evil DM Vince notwithstanding of course, but I die-best..... I mean digress....lol
Great job on this GW review. Would love to see more GW content. Thanks for doing this. Played all of the versions of GW going back to 1e. I think 2e & 4e are my favorites. Curious as to what your take might be on 3e (I think) with the percentile dice color chart resolution table. That one was different. Thanks again
I got a Gama World Box set in 82/83 at 12 years old or so (not sure what edition that would have been?), but never cold get anybody else interested in it enough to play, so basically just read and tested bit. I wanted a "Thundarr the Barbarian" type game, but looking back it actually could have been a lot more clever and cool than I could have really appreciated at that age.
Did someone say Thundarr? interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/wasteland-wanderers/ or a stylized modern revamp www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi/products/psy02-techno-barbarians or 15mm scale if you like www.oldglory25s.com/view_product.php?product=S15A Pandemic or no, it's still the Golden Age of Miniatures.
Had a wedding and also was feeling a bit under the weather. Nothing serious. Have been working on stuff. Almost finished the Legion of gold video. Got some fun Trivia from Luke Gygax himself on that one. Should be out tomorrow.
Wow....This is another plot that I could easily re-skin in my Irish Celtic-like campaign, like the Shrine of Tomoachan from a couple weeks ago. It could be a great session 1 for level 0 characters if we decide to do it. eat the berries and go up to level one. I think that this is the one GW adventure I played when I was in 9th grade with my D&D group.
I frequently refer to my game shelf as the 'Shelf of many things', so the answer is yes. My copy of star frontiers is long gone, and as many here know, I HATE trying to evaluated/ relearn from a PDF, so we'll have to see what's available. I frequently use my DrivethruRPG credits to purchase print on demand copies of games I don't have but would like to review. As it looks, SF is available for POD, so as soon as my credits are back up, I'll grab it.
@@captcorajus awesome captain!! I wish we were neighbors so bad. A walk through of your TSR Museum would be incredible ✊ Thank you for all you do brother 👍
@@captcorajus Would you ever consider doing a video tour of your D&D collection and bookshelf? I think many of us would love to see your wizard's workshop as it were.
@@Johnny_Nitro I've thought about it. I need to redo it, before I do, as my shelf is actually SHELVES and they are a bit disorganized at the moment. I have more stuff than i have self is the issue. lol
@@captcorajus glad to hear, yeah, voice came through a bit slower, sounded like a cold. One of my players last night was talking about a campaign he had been in that went all the way from pre-history to gammaworld back in the day. It's interesting how more out of the box the old school was. Today it's all "curse of strahd is deep because it is psychologically complex" vs. gonzo weird stuff.
@@joshkellemen5931 There's still plenty of gonzo out there in modern games, that hasn't changed. The stuff Monte Cook is producing is bogglingly innovative, and you've got things like Transhuman Space, the second edition of Over the Edge, and a big chunk of the OSR scene.
Grew up in Fargo North Dakota and all of us young gamers owned a copy of this and got a total kick out of it.
Question: If you buried a box full of nonperishable foods (like Twinkies and Campbell soup) in your backyard, would those provisions become available to your Gamma World characters if they knew the right place to dig in Far-Go? :-)
@@RobertWF42 that's a hell of an idea.
@@UndeadVikingVideos GM to players: "You come across a few pieces of concrete and glass scattered amongst the grass, all that remains of your house from the 20th century. Looking down, a small roundish object catches your eye. It's a polyhedral die . . ."
Hey, grew up there too! I can mentally map out the place for players too, right down to the mangled wreckage of South High. Maybe have mutant bruins in there. 😄
@@Jarnor23 class of 90 for Fargo South here!
I own the 1st ed. boxed set of Gamma World as well as the Legion of Gold module, but never played it. I always thought a Gamma World campaign would be really fun, but never found anyone interested in it back when I was in high school to try it out. This module looks like a lot of fun and the chicken processing plant with the Colonel Sanders militant bird in the officer's hat artwork are what are drawing me into this module. Sadly, this retired old game system would need to be brought into a 21st century D&D 5e style update for my group to try out. Which I think would also be cool.
Having grown up in Fargo I really need to run this sometime. I can mentally map out the valley in great detail. Modified for things like the wreckage of my high school, of course. 😝
the story loosely reminds me of the first fallout to an extent.
For anyone who missed these, Interloper has some 28mm miniatures that would be, ah, let's call them "appropriate" for use with this module, and Gamma World in general.
One-eyed chicken-men:
interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/three-beaks/
interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/cocked-rifles/
Some other very post-apocalyptic stuff on their main store page:
interloperminiatures.com/minis/
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I got the Gamma World first Edition core rulebook plus the extra books you mention. I never got a chance to play this back in the day but I'm playing this now with my group. Love your reviews brother. Keep up the good work.( of course I used your link for drive-through RPG on the last video to buy it)
Now you got me thinking of doing the prep work for a possible Gamma World game I've been kicking around for a hot minute. This and your full GW review has put Gamma World as a whole into perspective for me as a GM on how it works. I'm going to snatch up the POD of the rulebook and this adventure to have but also read through.
I totally agree! This following type of scenario is one that I have begun but yet to finish, but the premise, is basically the same as expedition to the barrier Peaks, except that it's not expedition to the barrier Peaks. I feel like there's a million ways to incorporate future Tech into your D&D game, and that could lead to Gamma World specific campaigns, or a mixture of gamma world and Dungeons & Dragons. I know the crashed spaceship idea was the original, but it was also very unique. What is the NPC's witnessed a spaceship or time travel capsule crashing? Maybe have a Green Lantern esque campaign where the dying alien bestows power, or rather shares his future Tech with the PCS.
You know those first level magic users people always laugh about having so few hit points and very limited if not just one spell? Well how about some plasti Steel armor , and maybe a limited capacity Blaster pistol for a Last Resort. Basically give your lower level party a Fighting Chance, and if at any point they seem overpowered, well, that's when the batteries die... Hahaha , or rather the power cells run out or whatever it is they do back then, or in the future, or... oh well oh, I'm sure you guys are picking up what I'm putting down
All of our characters survived the adventure. Couple us had mutated animals in the village. None of us ate the berries and our GM had to adjust fast. 😊
I love the detail in this adventure, at the factory
I had this one. Mom DM'd it for me. It was really fun. I always thought the beginning of Fallout 2 was based on this module.
Wow! That is one from the way back machine! Thank you for sharing such an awesome collection of adventure content. As usual another big thumbs up, amazing work and collection!
Played the 4th edition conversion. Jeez we need an official 5th ed conversion this game is so much fun!
Take 5 Torches Deep as the base rules.
@@MrRourk We'll look into that!
@@gameon_ct Ultraviolet Grasslands combined with Black Hack has a very Gammaworld Feel.
@@MrRourk More games to look into yay! Thanks so much!
First module of any game I GMed
Very nice review. What a classic module...mutant gun-totin' chickens at a robotic chicken processing plant...I mean, what else could you want?! I will gladly watch every Gamma World review you do, and on that note, I sincerely hope you do every module and rulebook of at least the first three editions.
I know, right? lol...
The response to my Gamma World reviews has been very positive so it seems likely, i'll be doing more! :)
@@captcorajus Fantastic.
I loved this game when I was 13-14v years old!
Brings back great memories!
Thanks!
A GM could attempt to mitigate the rail-roading a bit by having the chicken processing plant and meteor be optional areas. Or at least that the PCs don't need to go right to them after eating the berries. They return from their rite of passage, get their names, and as new adults are informed of the dire straits their village is in due to famine (as if they didn't already know). And that it's necessary for their village's survival for the PCs to venture forth again, looking for solutions.
This could lead to them finding clues pointing to the chicken processing plant, or other sources of food (like a homebrew supermarket that may have canned goods stashed somewhere, guarded by monsters). Or they could investigate the impact site, to remove the source of the famine. At all times up to this point, they might encounter the badders randomly or as scripted encounters. Only by clearing out their lair will the PCs and the village be freed from their attacks.
Basically, treat it as a normal sandbox adventure module, rather than a single long outing. The village acting as their home base.
That's pretty creative, and a great solution to the railroading problem. You could also have the meteor strike will the characters are off on their Rite of Adulthood, seeing the bright starfall.... cool ideas!
I loved this module and still have my copy!
This sounds like a nice little gem, and LOVE that badger mascot!
Yeah, that cracked me up. Bucky Badger is their god. Brilliant.
@@captcorajus like the image of the airline pilot that looked liked Mel Gibson in Beyond Thunderdome!
Always a pleasure to see you post videos, your attitude and approach to reviews is a joy to watch. You seem like someone I'd like to game with some day. It's also neat you're giving your thoughts on these "old games", and I feel showing how they still have merit and potential even to this day. Once again thank you.
That pretty much encapsulates nicely everything this channel is about. Thank you for the kind words.
The Captain is the best at his reviews 🤘👍
I am loving these Gamma World reviews, was a huge early fave. Thanks captcorajus!
Glad you like them!
Loving the Gamma World coverage, my inner younger geek thanks you, as well as the older one!
This was awesome my dude! You have to cover the other editions of GW and their respective modules, I promise you they're worth it
7e Gamma World (the one that used the 4e D&D system) also had a Famine in Far-go and a Legion of Gold module. Famine in Far-go was the first of those.
Yes I saw that when it came out. I was not real keen on the 'collectible card' aspect of the game so I gave it a pass.
@@captcorajus The cards were a turn-off for a lot of people but I will say this much for it, it took a traditionally gonzo setting and cranked the dial to 11 before breaking off the knob and setting fire to the amps. Also thought the shift from the very 80s "civilization destroyed by nuclear war" motif of the earlier editions to "civilization destroyed when super-collider experiments fracture time and space" thing was a neat touch. Some people were seriously convinced that was going to happen back then, a bit of science paranoia on par with the first nuclear bomb setting the entire atmosphere on fire back in the 40s.
Didn't hurt that the mutants, robots, and other weirdness were all pretty much fully compatible with 4E D&D either, and yes I absolutely did throw an alien saucer at my adventuring party one time. :)
@@richmcgee434 That super collider angle story wise is a good touch. Might add that into the background for a gamma world game i'm thinking of running.
@@captcorajus It's a pretty good excuse for just about any level of gonzo high weirdness you want in a campaign, that's for sure.
I have to say, my favourite part of your videos is the funky organ riff in the openings.
*Great video, as always... As no one has yet, you aught to do a video review of the 88' Forgotten Realms module, "Ruins of Adventure", the module that was based on the novel and the classic SSI Gold Box computer game, "Pool of Radiance"... I myself played Pool of Radiance on my Amiga back in the early 90's, then read the novel, and then purchased the module, although I never played through the module... While it might not have been as classic as the oldschool 1st edition AD&D modules, it really fleshed out the playing of the Amiga game and the reading of the novel, and it correlated closely with both of them... And with that familiar cover of Ren o' the Blade slashing his sword at the bronze dragon, Tyranthraxus, it was a classic in its own way... Anyway... Just a thought... Thanks again for all the great videos!*
I bought 4 modules based off this video.
Would gladly play AS a one-eyed gun toting chicken, thank you very much. ;)
EDIT: Played Gamma World back in the day and played as a mutated Golden Retriever with Energy Absorption and Energy Transformation (the jackpot of mutation random rolls)...and I recall the Kieth Parkinson cover of the game.
When I run this, I allow mutant animals by just adding another color of berries/necklace. Super easy.
I also worship Bucky Badger. #BuckyIsTruth
I bought all the gamma world stuff when it came out, loved it, but never got any of my AD&D friends to play it!! True tragety
Same here
I got my friends to play it when I told them you could play as a bear with wings that could shoot energy beams out of its eyes and that could turn invisible .
One of my players made his dog as a character that had anti life leach , heighted speed and had a Centaur like body named Bosko .
Another player had a mutant human that had wings , 4 arms , a tail and heightened intelligence .
Once they started playing that's all they wanted to play and our AD&D campaign got put on hold for a few months .
They loved the fact that the characters hit points were based on their constitution in d6 giving them greater survivability instead of only gaining 1 HD alevel
Legion of Gold is such a fun Module to run!
I like the mutant plants and animals in this setting. It really helps to distinguish it from other fantasy products out there. Plus the radiation theme gives it a fallout feel. I think you have done a great review Cap. However, your great overview aside, I can't say that I am interested in playing the game. I might considering reading a Gamma World story, as the world is definitely a novel one (pun intended), but I don't think the game itself would scratch my dnd itch.
All that said, keep the good stuff coming and game on!
Oh, i dont' know. Exploring the ruins of the ancients? Encountering not orcs, but mad androids, malfunctioning security droids, wild mutated animals?
To us, Gamma world was basically D&D, but with a gonzo, sci-fi twist. You might be surprised at how a change of genre can get your creative juices flowing.
@@captcorajus You ARE the expert in this area, so I will defer to your judgement. As I stated before, the setting is very interesting and the gonzo sci-fi eleme ts are unique.
Having never played the system, my opinion is solely based on your reviews.
If you're interested in Gamma World books, Nick Pollotta wrote American Knights and 24-Hour War for TSR back in the 90s. They're "choose your path" style adventure books but still manage to be pretty good reads, get the crazy setting across well, and are loosely connected to each other. There was supposed to be a third one called Freed-For-All but TSR died before it was released. Maybe WotC will salvage it someday as an e-book or PoD.
If you're a fan of "trashy" scifi/fantasy/supernatural with a heavy dose of satire I'd recommend just about everything Pollotta ever wrote, particularly the Bureau 13 series (based on the RPG of the same name), Illegal Aliens (coauthored with Phil Foglio of the old Dragon strip What's New?) and That Darn Squid God. He also did a lot of "men's adventure" genre stuff under pen names, including Deathlands (a less gonzo post-apoc setting) and some of the endless Mack Bolan and Stony Man series, which I can't endorse quite as heartily.
@@richmcgee434 Thanks for the information I will definitely look into them. 👍
Not sure if you came upon this or not, as you didn't mention it. The 1st Ed AD&D DM's Guide has conversion rules for GW to AD&D/AD&D to GW, pages 113 and 114 of the DMG.
Another informative post. Thank you.
I did mention it, but not in this video, in my previous video on Gamma World! :)
Yah, I've never actually seen Gamma World until this video, but I was aware of it because of that mention in the 1st ed. AD&D DM's guide.
Nice to finally see it.
Hey Captain I think I accidentally sent creator feedback to you (I accidentally hit something while cooking) if I did ignore that. I love your videos I’m actually thinking about doing something like this with Crawling Under a Broken Moon
Love 2nd edition Gamma world.
You should start listing Style, Presentation and Value horizontally across the screen, with the dice beneath them instead of to the right. That would give you more room.
Just turn your phone sideways when you're watching ... duh..
To Captain Capricornificopia,
Keep being amazing!
You are the number one old school TH-camr, hands down.
Our Lord and Saviour, the evil DM Vince notwithstanding of course, but I die-best.....
I mean digress....lol
Wait.... WAIT!! This sounds familiar..
More GW! Excellent.
More to come!
captcorajus 😊
Great job on this GW review. Would love to see more GW content. Thanks for doing this. Played all of the versions of GW going back to 1e. I think 2e & 4e are my favorites. Curious as to what your take might be on 3e (I think) with the percentile dice color chart resolution table. That one was different. Thanks again
Never messed with 3E Much. The 4E version released in the 90s was pretty darn cool and we played the heck out of that.
captcorajus - same here! Loved the introduction of classes per se. Really fun. Thanks again man. Good stuff
I got a Gama World Box set in 82/83 at 12 years old or so (not sure what edition that would have been?), but never cold get anybody else interested in it enough to play, so basically just read and tested bit. I wanted a "Thundarr the Barbarian" type game, but looking back it actually could have been a lot more clever and cool than I could have really appreciated at that age.
You could totally play a Thundar the Barbarian game with it to be sure!
Same here. Nowadays, reading Crawling Under a Broken Moon (as the title might suggest) scratches that old itch a bit for me.
Did someone say Thundarr?
interloperminiatures.com/miniatures/wasteland-wanderers/
or a stylized modern revamp
www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi/products/psy02-techno-barbarians
or 15mm scale if you like
www.oldglory25s.com/view_product.php?product=S15A
Pandemic or no, it's still the Golden Age of Miniatures.
I recently scored a complete gamma knights ;0
I wanted my group to play Gamma World _so damned much_ but we got into Top Secret instead and that was a debacle lol
Now requesting a party of adventures to find the missing Captain!
2 weeks since last post.
Had a wedding and also was feeling a bit under the weather. Nothing serious. Have been working on stuff. Almost finished the Legion of gold video. Got some fun Trivia from Luke Gygax himself on that one. Should be out tomorrow.
@@captcorajus the adventures are already a day out of town. Should be in the mountains. Do you have Gold or Platinum? I told them you where paying?
@@captcorajus glad you are feeling better
I bet the OSR Book Narcosa would fit in well in a Gamma World Game? Hmm?
Wow....This is another plot that I could easily re-skin in my Irish Celtic-like campaign, like the Shrine of Tomoachan from a couple weeks ago. It could be a great session 1 for level 0 characters if we decide to do it. eat the berries and go up to level one. I think that this is the one GW adventure I played when I was in 9th grade with my D&D group.
A person could use Black Hack / Rad Hack / White Hack / Blue Hack Rules to modernize Gamma World
Thanks for the video! If you want a copy of Legion of Gold to review, I have a beat up copy I could send you maybe :)
Thanks! I have a POD copy on its way.
Hay captain I'm just curious, do you own all the stuff you review? Can you please do Star Frontiers?
I frequently refer to my game shelf as the 'Shelf of many things', so the answer is yes.
My copy of star frontiers is long gone, and as many here know, I HATE trying to evaluated/ relearn from a PDF, so we'll have to see what's available.
I frequently use my DrivethruRPG credits to purchase print on demand copies of games I don't have but would like to review. As it looks, SF is available for POD, so as soon as my credits are back up, I'll grab it.
@@captcorajus awesome captain!! I wish we were neighbors so bad. A walk through of your TSR Museum would be incredible ✊ Thank you for all you do brother 👍
@@captcorajus Would you ever consider doing a video tour of your D&D collection and bookshelf?
I think many of us would love to see your wizard's workshop as it were.
@@Johnny_Nitro I've thought about it. I need to redo it, before I do, as my shelf is actually SHELVES and they are a bit disorganized at the moment. I have more stuff than i have self is the issue. lol
Great review, you doing okay, sound a bit under the weather
I do? I'm doing just fine! Thanks for asking!
@@captcorajus glad to hear, yeah, voice came through a bit slower, sounded like a cold.
One of my players last night was talking about a campaign he had been in that went all the way from pre-history to gammaworld back in the day.
It's interesting how more out of the box the old school was. Today it's all "curse of strahd is deep because it is psychologically complex" vs. gonzo weird stuff.
@@joshkellemen5931 There's still plenty of gonzo out there in modern games, that hasn't changed. The stuff Monte Cook is producing is bogglingly innovative, and you've got things like Transhuman Space, the second edition of Over the Edge, and a big chunk of the OSR scene.