You have a 1-100% chance to make that feat and you roll dice to achieve it. (There is a whole psychological examination to be done about nerdy kids playing a game that has built into its dynamics a desire to achieve popularity.) FASERIP: The Gameplayįor the most part, the game was simple. Throw in Karma (experience points), resources and popularity and you round out your characters. The first four are all tests of physical attributes and the last 3 mental. On the character sheet, you list those down one side, which creates the acronym FASERIP. FASERIP: The DynamicsĬharacters are built on these attributes: Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition and Psyche. And it had a simplicity that the competitor DC system lacked. It was nearly impossible to cheat in and you could create characters you wanted or play characters you loved. It had an easy to understand game mechanic. And for nerdy comic book fans, this game was excellent. Though they originally published a set in 1984, my friends and I played the 1986 edition.

You could simultaneously merge the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Vietnam era veteran warriors and superheros.īut my best love of that era has to be the Marvel Superheroes Role Playing Game. (I had no idea that this is what it was called until researching this piece.) The beauty of this system is that they played a ton of modules around all things nerd. No, the truth is that I was a full blown cheater. In many, many Car Wars adventures, I am pretty sure I never once drove a car that fit the space and weight requirements of the game. On paper, this was a genius option except for one thing: the rules. (Because if in 1988, you didn’t want to throw ninja stars at stuff, even in your role playing adventures, you and I couldn’t be friends.)

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, complete with Oriental Adventuresrules.

In some ways, this was a zenith of role playing game popularity. For me, growing up as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s, that meant that there was a wealth of options available to me. When you are 13 and you are making the jump from being nerdy to an all-in, epic nerdiness, one of the new experiences that you try is role playing games.

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