It’s that time again: A new month brings another 500 pages of the Previews catalog, and as always I am your helpful guide to the wonders within.
And this month, there are wonders indeed, from the cybernetic Jane Wiedlin to an RPG that I am pretty sure fills the last available pen-and-paper gaming niche possible. Enjoy!
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While the Hellcats and Hockeysticks RPG is definitely more specific, there have been other similar school-based RPGs.
The first – all the way back in 1982 – was Alma Mater: http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=1386
You played anarchist students bent on destroying the school and Cheerleader was a character class! It was considered incredibly racy at the time and was hard to find or buy. You were more likely to find it in a head shop racked next to the Fabulous Furry Freak Briothers than in a gaming/comic book store.
The other school RPG that was similar in tone: Teenagers From Outer-Space where you played either a human kid dealing with aliens enrolled in your school or an alien kid trying to fit in. Heavily influenced by anime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenagers_from_Outer_Space_%28role-playing_game%29
As the Wikipedia article notes TFOS was very influential in the development of the biggest anime role-playing game Big Eyes Small Mouth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eyes,_Small_Mouth
Not that I need to say it, but yes I am INCREDIBLE geek.
Holy shit has Cyclops gone nuclear?!
Dr. Solar looks like half the superheroes I made up when I was ten. Bet he can do LITERALLY EVERYTHING with his powers, too.
@Danicus: From what I recall of the Dr. Solar/WildC.A.T.S. cross-over where he made-out with and then merged with Void, something like that…
I never thought I knew Dr. Solar, and I know way more comic characters than can possibly be healthy.