So I wrote off to Penguin myself and suggested they publish a game in a paperback book. The Fighting Fantasy solo adventures were popular at the time, and some friends of mine had written a book called What is Dungeons and Dragons? (explaining D&D to non-gamers, and also published by Penguin), which made the whole thing seem more possible. I thought it would be great if you could just go to a bookshop and buy an RPG for the price of a paperback book rather than having to find a specialist store and pay several times as much for one of the AD&D rulebooks. I was at school, and doing a lot of role-playing, but it was always difficult to find shops that stocked RPGs. Puffin was at that time enjoying considerable success with its Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and arranged for Scott to write an RPG set in sixteenth-century England. Maelstrom was an RPG written by Alexander Scott and published in 1984 by Penguin’s children’s imprint, Puffin. I had entirely forgotten about this game until late in the writing of those posts, but it has a number of important similarities to WFRP that mean it deserves further attention. When I wrote my ‘ WFRP Manifesto’ posts I tried to provide some historical context for the design of WFRP1, but inevitably there were omissions. Lledelwin on L’ENNEMI INTÉRIEUR: LE GUIDE echowfrp on LOST WARHAMMER: A TALE TO TELL. ![]() Gideon on LOST WARHAMMER: A TALE TO TELL.John Parkin on THE WFRP STORY XV: CHAMPIONS OF CHAOS Gideon on THE WFRP STORY XV: CHAMPIONS OF CHAOS.
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