Not really a "Mail Call" but it feels like one. I was down visiting my brothers and sisters this past weekend and look what my brother had for me!
YES! I have finally got my hands on a copy of Imperium! But the box is full of surprises.
In addition to the Imperium game there is a complete mini-game, Sticks and Stones, the Monster that ate Sheboygan, tourney rules for Imperium, and either another game or pieces of two other games. And a little zine "The Halfling Magazine."
I am going to need to go through it all and see what I really have but it looks like it was all bought at Origins in 1980.
In addition, there is a game I am completely unfamiliar with. The naval battle game Trireme.
Not only does it look intact, it looks like it has been completely unplayed!
These will provide me a lot of fun over Christmas break to be sure.
4 comments:
Wow, nostalgic gold mine. I had all of those games. Trireme's not half bad, and you obviously already know how good Imperium and Creature are. Sticks & Stones is surprisingly deep - it's got a point-buy system for some of the scenarios that really adds replayability. Had some support articles (including an expanded hunting scenario IIRC) in Interplay Magazine, the short-lived Metagaming house organ.
The Halfling Magazine looks like a small zine from Excalibre Games, but I don't recall seeing it before, offhand: http://tomeoftreasures.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=401 doesn't list it nor does it appear in the larger list of zines in general (or at the Acaeum).
Allan.
I am so envious of the Metagaming-heavy bonus material and the zine.
I plated Sticks and Stones a long, long time ago. Had forgotten that one.
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