The Saga Edition
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I discovered a science fiction roleplaying game called Traveller. A little black box, three booklets. You provided pen, paper, dice and imagination. What fun we had during college with that! Traveller evolved into various editions, died, was brought back, died again, was brought back again. I drifted in and out.
Some time later another company brought out a science fiction roleplaying game based on Star Wars. I bought some of the modules, but never really used it. That game eventually faded, but that franchise went out to be run by the uber-gaming company...which also et the franchise fail.
They've now brought out The Saga Edition of the Star Wars roleplaying game. Is there still room for pencil and paper games in a world of many flavors of computer games? Here's a review that looks at the current edition.
Posted by Fred Kiesche at June 13, 2007 05:44 AMEven in a MMO, you can't get the same intensity of social interaction in a computer game as you can in a pencil and paper game. So, yeah, until we get much better virtual reality, meatspace RPGs will have a place.
Posted by: owlish at June 13, 2007 09:50 PM