Roleplayer #23, May 1991
Coming Detractions
Your Life is Worthless Without These Books
by Chris McCubbin
Sick of fantasy roleplaying? Tired of being able to juggle planets
and vaporize armies? Ready for a dose of reality? SJ Games pioneers the
field of reality roleplaying with their miraculously mundane
fifth quarter 1991 schedule, "Dare to be Dull!"
BURPS Blue-Collar
Get a life! This new 566-page BURPS (Boring
Universal RolePlaying System) worldbook has everything you'll
ever need to construct a roleplaying campaign that's no different from
everyday existence. You can be a downtrodden working stiff, a confused
and abused student, an unemployed parasite or any other sort of hopeless
loser you meet on the street (or over the gaming table).
Struggle! Fail! Give up! Complete rules for: tedious, dead-end jobs; school,
including pop quizzes and being beat up; romance, rejection, broken hearts
and social diseases.
Just be yourself in the most pointless BURPS rule
book ever. Only $99.99.
And look for these sort-of-great supplements . . .
BURPS Mundane Tech
Burn the toast, enjoy Muzak, bump your nose on automatic doors, sabotage
Grandfather's hearing aid! At last, complete rules for all devices essential
to 20th century life. Everything from rotary pencil sharpeners to refrigerators!
Includes 50 pages of rules detailing exactly how even the simplest and most
innocuous of machines can turn on you and ruin your work, your life, and
your health. 20 pages alone of annoying personal computer glitches!
BURPS Itty Bitty Bestiary
Roaches and rabbits and mice, oh my! Yeah, you know what a rhino or a great
white shark can do to your characters. But what about a butterfly, or a
kitten, or a gerbil? Huh? What about it? Huh?
Complete game stats on all those annoying pests and vermin that other game
systems ignore -- ants, sparrows, Yorkshire terriers, armadillos, toddlers.
Compare the number of starlings you've seen recently to the number of hippogriffs
-- how did you ever get along so far without the Itty Bitty
Bestiary?
BURPS Folks
The sinister fast-food counter person, the macabre convenience store night
manager, the diabolical vice-principal! Face them all thanks to BURPS
Folks, Real People For Your Real World. Includes teachers,
nerds (tech and non-tech), bosses, cops, snobs, bullies, jocks, more!
And look for these two special BURPS Blue Collar / Horror
crossovers, Junior High and Night
of the Jogging Yuppies! Ooooh, scary!
Dare to be dull with SJ Games. Yes, Stupid Joke Games,
the company where you can just be yourself.
(And happy April First, a bit late.)
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