Two players at a table over the letters GOTHEGAMING OUTPOSTThe archive

The Gaming Outpost archive

Mike Daisey

13 recovered pieces under this original byline.

April 29, 1999
Article archive

Archmage

Rarely has a game been as schizophrenic than ARCHMAGE, a strange licensee RPG that has evolved from the online battle sensation of the same name. It would appear that in light of the new movement toward license-driven…

April 7, 1999
Article archive

Continuum

Time travel is one of those tasty subjects for science fiction games that never seems quite to ferment. Between Grandfather Paradoxes, missing time, meeting yourself and endless causality problems, it seems like the…

April 20, 1999
Article archive

Delta Green: COUNTDOWN

Listen to me: this book is 432 pages long. This redefines 'supplement' as 'gigantic opus full of more material than some game lines release in 5 products'. It's a third longer than the core Delta Green book it came…

May 10, 1999
Article archive

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

With a backstory so delightfully inane, I was certain that the game would need special help for testing, so my fiancee and I with some friends drank Jagermeister shots for about an hour, to see what would happen to our…

November 30, 1999
Article archive

Exposé: Aberrant

In a time when I find myself disenchanted with many of the directions that tabletop RPGs have been taking in terms of production values, I have found the White Wolf Updates for both Trinity and Aberrant a breath of…

December 8, 1999
Article archive

Gemini: The Dark Fantasy Roleplaying Game

One of the most unexpected recent entries to the well-worn category of classic fantasy games is Gemini, a very dark fantasy game from Stockholm, Sweden. It's a fascinating study--on one hand, it's a D+D retread game…

October 11, 1999
Article archive

Imagine Player's Guide

If you dropped copies of the old-school Keep on The Borderlands and the movie Dragonheart into a blender with a dash of Rolemaster supplements, you'd end up with IMAGINE.

April 30, 1999
Article archive

Mastermaze

Though I am still mortal and have not been completely transformed by its arrival, I will freely admit that MasterMaze is a deeply impressive piece of work.

September 1, 1999
Article archive

Rolemaster Revised Edition

Iron Crown Enterprises has been a warhorse of the RPG field, managing to eke out a living while most RPG companies wither and fade...while I might personally prefer R. Talsorian's design aesthetic to ICE's in-house…

November 18, 1999
Article archive

Ultima Thule: Mythic Scandinavia

The ad copy for the game states, 'Any roleplayer with an interest in Mythic Scandinavia should have Ultima Thule!', which begs the question, 'Am I interested in Scandanavia?

August 25, 1999
Article archive

Witchcraft

CJ Carella's WitchCraft is now in its second incarnation, having burned up one of its nine lives on a failed foray from Myrmidon Press in 1996. It has been resurrected by Eden Studios, who seems to be competing with…