"Go to the sign of Marvel's Axe, a dubious inn on the edge of the Thieves Quarter, in the City of Greyhawk, and look to your own wrist. If you perceive a bracelet and dangling dice, watch for the next throw in the war between Law and Chaos and be prepared to follow the compelling geas." -Signal

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

AM3: Bughunters

From the back of the book:

Travel to exotic new worlds, see strange new life forms, and kill them . . . before they kill you!

The Bughunters role-playing game--part of the Amazing Engine line-up--casts player characters as protectors of the human race in a hostile galaxy. From orbital stations to fledgling colony worlds and Mother Earth herself, Bughunters PCs seek out and battle inimical alien creatures while trying to piece together the secret of a horrifying galactic threat!

 

1 comment:

Dick McGee said...

Like many of the Amazing Engine setting books, this was actually decent enough when new and had a little more creativity than the simple Aliens ripoff you might expect. For its time period it was a solid attempt at a general scifi horror universe with a good variety of menaces from the genre. Bit like a prototype of Mothership, if anything.

Sadly the AE engine was pretty mediocre and very little remembered these days, and Buhunters isn't quite deep enough to pick up just as an idea mine for more modern systems, many of which cover the same tropes as well or better.

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