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So, it seems to be the thing to do drunk reviews right now.

While it made me want to drink, I don't think I was actually drinking when I reviewed FATAL. I'm tempted to do a drunk review of that, but it's pretty long (several thousand pages) and I don't think drinking would add much.

Lets see, other ideas:
  • Godlike (WW2 supers game)
  • Rifts Juicer Uprising
  • After the Bomb (palladium game based on the TMNT rules, but made it's own thing)
  • Monster Island (Kaiju combat game. Short book, so maybe a quicky)
  • Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters (BESM book for fighting mon games)
  • Cold Hands Dark Hearts (BESM "horror" game. Their take on WoD, I guess.)
  • Cyberpunk 2020
  • Apparently I have Little Fears, a game about playing little kids fighting boogeymen. So... that's an option.
Or, I could do a drunk review of the MLPFIM porn fanbook that was mentioned in the Cracked article Count shared.
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I was mostly sober for the 2nd chapter I wrote in my review; I wish I had been shitfaced for it, but that's an aside.

I'd vote either for Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Monsters (the title is just too awesome for the book to go unreviewed!) or Little Fears (since the concept sounds genuinely interesting, although its implementation might be shit)

"Juicer Uprising" sounds like either a band, a bar, or (possibly) a drink named after the bar, and it's RIFTS, so I guess it would be a distant third.

But really all of those sound interesting; I'm down with anything other than My Little Porno would be good (and watch that get the most votes.)
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My Little Porno would also be fairly quick. It'd be like reviewing a comic.

Juicer Uprising was the RIFTS sourcebook dealing with one of the more insane, but not completely insane, classes in RIFTS. Basically, you played Bane from Batman, being a person enhanced with a cocktail of steroids, combat drugs and pure awesome. It made you super durable, super strong, and all around super human. However, you would die within 7 years. As if that matters for an adventurer in the land of Pink Mist Guns. Juicer Uprising talked more about them, and added some variations.
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Post by erik »

God, it may be fun to review Rifts books. I accumulated over a dozen of those craprags in highschool. Horrible system, but we had fun.

There's awful rules, no attempt at balance, or editing, or layout. While there's good art at times, there's also any time Siembieda is allowed to ruin a perfectly fine piece of paper with a pen since it's his property.

It almost feels like a low-hanging fruit to review Rifts tho. *checking*... Sure enough, the something awful guys have gone for those low hanging fruits (Juicer, Japan, Core, Canada).
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Yeah, but... Something Awful is fucking horrible.
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I can't remember anything about the system of Little Fears, but you're supposed to feel bad after playing it. And while playing it. It's horror, from the perspective of small children, and the book seriously does mention abduction and alcoholic parents and paedophiles and stuff. And we all know how kids are great at solving those pro- oh wait.

I think it's really the kind of thing that some people just put in their roleplaying shelf to show they're not *just* mainstream D&D/WoD/SR, they totally have some artsy edgy stuff. They don't actually play it.
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Well, it's conceptually interesting. It seems somewhat similar to Grimm, which deals with kids fighting folklore monsters in the world of the fairy tales.

So, exactly the same concept, I guess. Grimm was d20, though.
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Ok, new option for the list:

Nymphology- the sex joke book of the Encyclopedia Arcana series by Mongoose.
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I can't really do a Drunken Review until next Friday because of reasons. But at that point I could do one. There are several options for D&D-related drunk reviews:
  • Assassin's Handbook (d20)
  • Book of Erotic Fantasy (d20)
  • Ultimate Prestige Class (d20)
  • The Unholy Warrior's Handbook (d20)
  • The DMG 2 (4e)
  • Wilderness Survival Guide (1st edition)
  • Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1st edition)
  • Planes of Conflict Player's Guide (2nd Edition)
  • Well of Worlds (2nd edition)
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I vote BoEF. Drunk Frank + that book can only lead to more hilarity.
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If anyone is to review the BoEF it should be Frank, yeah.
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@Prak: Given what I've read here, my number one vote now goes to Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Monsters.

@Frank: Book of Erotic Fantasy, totally.
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Frank should do the BoEF and Prak the Juicer sourcebook, I think.
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Post by fectin »

BoEF.
4e DMG would also be cool, but BoEF is head and shoulders above the rest.

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I don't think that is any excuse for a game to have bad mechanics.

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Post by Ted the Flayer »

I want to try my hand at this so-called "drunken reviewing". I haven't contributed anything to this board except for mild trolling yet.

I do have electronic copies of nearly every D20 book (if not all of them), so I'm willing to take requests. Or take something that's a runner-up in someone else's list. Or if I don't get any request, I'll take one that has been requested and hasn't been done next week (hours got cut at my second job, I have more time than usual next week).
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I'll vote for BoEF, too. I've heard it mentioned off and on over the years, but I've never actually seen any material from it.
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So the BoEF is finished. I could do another one starting Tuesday or Wednesday because of reasons. All the other D&D options are still on the table.
  • Assassin's Handbook (d20)
  • Book of Erotic Fantasy (d20)
  • Ultimate Prestige Class (d20)
  • The Unholy Warrior's Handbook (d20)
  • The DMG 2 (4e)
  • Wilderness Survival Guide (1st edition)
  • Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1st edition)
  • Planes of Conflict Player's Guide (2nd Edition)
  • Well of Worlds (2nd edition)
Of course, we don't have to drunkenly rageview old D&D products. We could just as plausibly do other works, such as:
  • Dark Passions (Cthulhutech)
  • Second Sight (New World of Darkness)
  • Giovanni Clan Book (Old world of Darkness)
  • Back for Seconds (Feng Shui)
Honestly, my last OSSR on a Shadowrun product kind of fell into the void, so I'm not exactly eager to do another one in the near future.

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Post by Cynic »

How about dark ages vampire?
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Cynic wrote:How about dark ages vampire?
I actually already did Requiem For Rome, so doing Dark Ages Vampire isn't high priority.

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My vote is the Planes of Conflict Player's Guide, with a distant second on the DMG 2.
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I vote Unholy Warrior's Handbook.
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I'm gonna go with the Unholy Warrior's Handbook, coz' I own it.
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