Fantasy Games Unlimited

I wouldn't wanna run the game I was running at the con, just in case somebody was in it, you know? Okay, good.

So my first game was Villains & Vigilantes, um, which is an old, uh, Fantasy Games Unlimited, I think is the name of the company, game, where basically you're playing superheroes, but you play yourselves.

And we actually did the character creation where you, you, you have to stat yourself up, you know? And it's really funny because, uh, of c- most of us, at the table anyways, were like, "Oh, all right, strength, seven." You know, you know, [laughs] I mean, it's like 318, you know?

Yeah.

I know what you're all thinking, audience.

What is this game about? It's Psyworld from 1984, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited.

It is about a dark, depressing future where a police state soldiers knock down your doors and drag you off to internment camps 'cause you're a psychic.

[laughs] That's, that's-

Okay.

Corbett.

I, like a lot of old games, and specifically a lot of games, uh, Fantasy Games workshop or Fantasy Games Unlimited, right?

Yeah.

It can only mean one thing.

This episode is all about Bunnies and Burrows, which was first published in 1976 by Fantasy Games Unlimited.

Bunnies and Burrows was created by B. Dennis Sustar and Scott G. Robinson and inspired by by Richard Adams, Watership Down, is one of the earliest RPGs to ask the important question, what if, instead of pretending to be a mighty warrior, you were a rabbit? The original game was followed by a second edition in 1982, a GURPS, Bunnies and Burrows, adaption by Stephan O'Sullivan, appeared in 1992, And after a very long period underground, appropriately enough, the original authors returned with a completely revised third edition from Frog God Games in 2019.

In this episode, we go down the rabbit hole and give the game a speed rating.

It's all, one of Sal's favorite games.

The Fantasy Games Unlimited.

I thought for years and years that the game had, the publisher had gone out of business, but the guy who owns it, I forget his name.

It, don't, I won't say his name.

Heart of Oak is miniature naval combat rules.

And this Fantasy Games Unlimited, which you can still buy this on DriveThruRPG.

You get PDFs of all this.

But so Privateers and Gentlemen comes with Heart of Oak.

[laughs]

But the, uh, the original design team is a guy called, uh, Bob Charrette or Robert Charrette, Paul Hume, and Tom Dowd, and these guys were, uh, game designers who had worked at a company that, uh, a lot of us probably have heard of, Fantasy Games Unlimited.

It's, well, I should say a lot of us.

Men of a certain age remember [laughs] Fantasy Games Unlimited.

[laughs]

FGU.