Monsters! Monsters!

Monsters! Monsters! is a role-playing game first published by Metagaming Concepts in 1976.

Description

Monsters! Monsters! is a fantasy system in which the player characters are monsters who prey on adventurers and the civilized world.[1] The game's rules systems are essentially compatible with Tunnels & Trolls.[1]

Publication history

Monsters! Monsters! was designed by Ken St. Andre with Jim "Bear" Peters, with art by Liz Danforth, and was published in 1976 by Metagaming Concepts as a 40-page square-bound book.[1] Monsters! Monsters!, St. Andre's third game,[2]:36 was developed by Steve Jackson based on a design by St. Andre related to his Tunnels & Trolls role-playing game.[2]:78 Metagaming Concepts released a second printing in 1976, which was saddle-stitched.[1] Howard M. Thompson provided illustrations for Monsters! Monsters!

Flying Buffalo got the rights to print a second edition of Monsters! Monsters! in 1979.[2]:36[1]

Reception

Ronald Pehr reviewed Monsters! Monsters! in The Space Gamer No. 34.[3] Pehr commented that "Monsters! Monsters! is a good game for beginners, or anyone who wants to be a troll, but experienced gamers who enjoy complex campaign games offering more than bloodlust won't find anything they want here."[3]

John ONeill of Black Gate commented that "The game is well written, with plenty of delightful Liz Danforth art, and my games library is no longer missing an important piece of gaming history."[4]

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References
  1. Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 199. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. Pehr, Ronald (December 1980). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (34): 31.
  4. "Black Gate » Articles » Get Out of the Dungeon with Monsters! Monsters!".
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