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Pyramid Archives - 2002


January 04, 2002 Circle Of Fear -- Part II: A GURPS Atomic Horror Adventure; Designer's Notes: GURPS Cops; Pyramid Review: At Your Service (for Over the Edge); Pyramid Review: Mystic Warriors (for d20); Terra Incognita: The Cult of Asklepios; Suppressed Transmission: A Firmament of Rocs; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Random Thoughts on Lord of the Rings

January 11, 2002 Scale and Lamellar Armor; The Lost Tribe of the Library; The World in a Bottle; Pyramid Review: Ragnarok! Tales of the Norse Gods (for d20); Pyramid Review: Target: Awakened Lands (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Pick: De Profundis (for Call of Cthulhu); Suppressed Transmission: The Unexplored of the Rings; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: My Campaign is Not a Number! (Okay; Maybe It Is. . .)

January 18, 2002 The Taking of the Twin Chalice; Creatures of the Night -- and Afternoon, Evening, or Too Darn Early in the Morning (aka IOU Bestiary Out-Takes); Pyramid Review: The Book of Eldritch Might (for d20); Pyramid Review: Dime Heroes RPG and Jungle Adventures Supplement; Unusual Suspects; Suppressed Transmission: Wanna Bęte? The Beast of Gévaudan; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Romantics Vs. Simulationists, With the World in the Balance

January 25, 2002 Designer's Notes: In Nomine Anime; Oh My God! They Got Johnny! -- Optional Rules for Snipers for GEV and Ogre Miniatures; Pyramid Pick: Dragonstar -- Starfarer's Handbook (for d20); Pyramid Review: Song and Silence (for Dungeons & Dragons); Supporting Cast: Garnath Minarsson -- A Virtuous Traitor For Hero Wars; Supporting Cast: Charles A. Lindbergh; Terra Incognita: The Kobb Group; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Part of a Simulation Nation

February 01, 2002 Rotgut Rumble in the Rockies -- An Adventure Scenario for the Deadlands RPG; Pyramid Review: Mage Knight Dungeons; Pyramid Review: Beyond the Veil (for d20); Pyramid Review: Adrift in the River of Dream (for Tribe 8); Adventure Pizza: Out of Body, Out of Mind; Suppressed Transmission: Black Box Down; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: The Romantic View . . . By The Book

February 08, 2002 Cupid's Arrows: A Holiday Adventure for In Nomine; Time Enough for Love: Getting Romance into your Super-Hero Games; 'Til Death Do Us Part, And Then Some . . . .; Pyramid Review: Nexus Card Game; Pyramid Review: Dead From Above (for Weird War II/d20); Suppressed Transmission: We Are For The Dark: Antony and Cleopatra; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Sex! (Now That I Have Your Attention . . .)

February 15, 2002 Magic Ingredients Revisited: Spell Ingredients for GURPS; Appendix Z: Form Blazing Sword!; Pyramid Review: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game; Pyramid Review: Arcana: Societies of Magic (for d20); Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Games Without Frontiers, War Without Tears; Campaign in a Box: Hyperworld vs. the Invadroids

February 22, 2002 Beyond Contagion and Remove Disease: Optional Rules for d20; Back Into The Cube: An Alternate Campaign for GURPS Time Travel and Places of Power; Pyramid Review: War! Age of Imperialism; Pyramid Review: Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex (for d20); Warehouse 23: Mirror of Hidden Truth, Soulbreaker, and Weeping Wounds; Suppressed Transmission: Yours Truly, Prester John; Random Thought Table: When Spacefleet Won't Return Your Phone Calls

March 01, 2002 Designer's Notes: Transhuman Space; Inquisitio Ytarria: The Congregation of the Holy Inquisition of Yrth; When Good LARPers Go Bad; Pyramid Review: Slaves of Fate (for d20); Pyramid Review: Dvonn; Error Reading Disk: Invoke/Retry/Summon?; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Conclusion: In a Perfect World, You May Be Obsolete

March 08, 2002 Around the World on a Shilling: The Great Exhibition of 1851; Homestead Inc.: A Corporate Player for any Space Campaign; Cardboard Anti-Heroes: Paper Pawns For Use With Kill Doctor Lucky; Pyramid Pick: Godlike -- Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946; Pyramid Review: Dogs o' War: All's Fair (for The Great Rail Wars); Pyramid Pick: Gaming Frontiers (for d20); Suppressed Transmission: Hurled Into Eternity: The Gunfight At The O.K. Corral; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Go Ahead; Make Mistakes . . . It'll All Be Fine

March 15, 2002 De Arcanis Catholicae: The Church Arcane; Designer's Notes: Orbital Decay (for Transhuman Space); Pyramid Review: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Collectible Card Game; Pyramid Pick: The Witchfire Trilogy Part III: The Legion of Lost Souls (for d20); Supporting Cast: Odin, King of the Aesir; Suppressed Transmission: Transhuman Histories; Random Thought Table: KISS With Complexity

March 22, 2002 Passenger Artillery: A Means of Travel for any Steampunk Campaign; Just Like Any Other Job; Designer's Notes: GURPS Cabal and GURPS Horror, Third Edition; Appendix Z: Not-So-Plain Sailing; Pyramid Pick: Carcassonne; Pyramid Review: Quest for the Unknown (for HackMaster); Pyramid Review: Eden Odyssey: Wonders Out of Time (for d20); Random Thought Table: Room With a View . . . Or At Least A Spot For Your Soda

March 29, 2002 April Fools Dungeon Tech; Nuance And The Static Curtain: Two (Very) Minor Players In The Greater Game; Primary Sources: Duck Soup and The Mouse That Roared; Pyramid Review from Dimension X!: Decados Fiefs (for the Fading Suns RPG); Pyramid Review from Dimension X!: The Contract Directory (for SLA Industries); Warehouse 23: The Pythagorus Box; Warehouse 23: License to Drive; Suppressed Transmission: The Secret of My Success; Random Thought Table: ZRM EPYZ VBBPSABO XPIQEB MTMK!

April 05, 2002 The Lonely Mariner: An Adventure for GURPS Swashbucklers; Song Combos for In Nomine; Pyramid Review: Wilderness War Boardgame; Pyramid Review: Enter the Viking (for Rune RPG); Pyramid Review: Villains (for d20); Warehouse 23/Supporting Cast: The Phantom Cabriolet; Suppressed Transmission: Ghosts From The Machine; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: The Power of Labels

April 12, 2002 Sports in Roleplaying Games; Plotting Like Old Man Jenkins; Black Flag: Capture The Flag Variations for Frag; Pyramid Review: Rokugan (for D&D 3rd Ed/Oriental Adventures); Pyramid Review: Strange Adventures in Infinite Space Computer Game; Pyramid Pick: Formula Motor Racing; Terra Incognita: Joe's Oxygen Shack; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Try It . . . You Might Like It!

April 19, 2002 Designer's Notes: Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe; Pyramid Review: Enter the Zombie (for All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG); Pyramid Review: Marvel Recharge CCG; Pyramid Review: Spycraft RPG (for d20); Supporting Cast: The Venerable Bede; Suppressed Transmission: If The Secretary of Defense Falls From An Empty Room, Does It Make A Sound?; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Building An Iron Curtain Between Player And Character Shouldn't Make You See Red; Campaign in a Box: Toybox Tribes

April 26, 2002 The Son of Cheeroonear Part I; Double Secret Illuminati; So, What Brings You Here?; Appendix Z: Starship Troubles; Pyramid Review: GURPS Conspiracy X; Pyramid Review: Pocket Universe Basic Rules Set/Teenage Demon Slayers; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Pulling Back the Curtain . . .

May 03, 2002 The Son of Cheeroonear Part II; Mummies: The Next Generation; You Like Me, You Really Like Me! -- An Optional GURPS Rule for The Arts; Grenades! -- A Rules Expansion for Frag; Pyramid Pick: Star Wars Epic Duels Game; Pyramid Review: Ascension of the Magdalene (for Unknown Armies & d20); Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Curtain, Curtain . . . Who's Got the Curtain?

May 10, 2002 Roadblock: Four 20th Century Armored Cars for GURPS; The Serial Murder Resource Center; Pyramid Review: Star Trek Roleplaying Game -- Player's Guide; Pyramid Review: Marvel HeroClix -- Infinity Challenge; Pyramid Review: Psionics Toolkit (for d20); Suppressed Transmission: Robin's Laws Illuminated; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: History: Yesterday's Beliefs, Today (Or Vice Versa)

May 17, 2002 Pyramid Pick: Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide; Pyramid Review: Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition; Pyramid Review: Metamorphosis Alpha Universe RPG; Adventure Pizza: Hunting The Griffins; Terra Incognita: Aulos -- City in the Sky; Suppressed Transmission: Red Sphere Rising; Random Thought Table: An Open Letter To Game Designers

May 24, 2002 Interior and Terminal Ballistics for GURPS; Los Huevos Diablos: An adventure for the Deadlands RPG; Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII: Hand of Steel; There's Something Your GM Wants to Tell You; Pyramid Review: Seven Strongholds (for d20); Pyramid Review: Floorplans by Brian K. Moseley: Inns & Taverns, Castles & Keeps, Temples & Shrines; Pyramid Review: Lone Stars: The Texas Rangers (for Deadlands & Deadlands d20); Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Building Stronger Mysteries Today For A More Secretive Tomorrow

May 31, 2002 Seers for In Nomine; D.I.Y. Random Names on the Web; Appendix Z: Smugglers; Pyramid Review: Riót!; Pyramid Review: Star Wars Jedi Unleashed; Supporting Cast: Steampunk Heroes: Professor Pierre Arronax and Conseil; Suppressed Transmission: The Thunder of Mighty Wings: The Mothman Cometh; Random Thought Table: Setting Up Setting Need Not Be Upsetting

June 07, 2002 Designer's Notes: Transhuman Space: Fifth Wave; Hardware that Hums, Software that Sizzles: Customizing Your GURPS Hardware; Exercise T: A Scenario for Ogre; Pyramid Review: Star Wars Trading Card Game: Attack of the Clones; Pyramid Pick: Diceland: Deep White Sea; Pyramid Pick: Hero System Fifth Edition RPG; Supporting Cast: Benny Mawr: The True King of Baltimore; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Place-Setting With Kitchen Utensils and Hamsters

June 14, 2002 GURPS Combat Tactics: The Basics; Appendix Z: The Emergency Generator; Pyramid Review: The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game; Pyramid Review: Exalted Storyteller's Companion (for Exalted); Supporting Cast: Anjali Phoenix; Suppressed Transmission: Malfisance: Death And The Duchess of Malfi; Random Thought Table: Weaker Than Thou

June 21, 2002 High Noon: GURPS Rules for the Classic Duel; Factions: Buying Friends and Associates in GURPS; Pyramid Review: Threats 2 (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Pick: Playing with Pyramids: 12 Games for Icehouse Pieces; Pyramid Review: Star Trek Roleplaying Game Narrator's Guide; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Normalcy, And Other Fictional Constructs; Campaign in a Box: Kung-Fu Crucible

June 28, 2002 Pyramid Review: Big Aisle, Small Cart; Pyramid Review: Van Richten's Arsenal (for d20); Pyramid Review: FATE Magazine; The Money College of Magic (for GURPS IOU); Replacement Transmission: The Bisociated Battleground; Warehouse 23: The Permanent Record; Random Thought Table: Heavily Skilled Today, Slightly Killed Tomorrow

July 05, 2002 Election Day: Electoral Ideas for Fictional Democracies; Like Unto Gods; Pyramid Review: Laws of the Hunt (for Mind's Eye Theatre); Pyramid Review: Cube Farm; Pyramid Review: Tempest Feud (for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game); Supporting Cast: The Sharp-Edged Man; Adventure Pizza: Slave to the System; Suppressed Transmission: Four Lords of Mars; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: I Think Icon, I Think Icon

July 12, 2002 Pyramid Review: Seven Cities (for d20); Pyramid Review: Operation: Jungle Drums -- Redux (for Heavy Gear); The Art Of Cattle Raiding; Designer's Notes: GURPS Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire; The Big Score Bank; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Powers and Pimples

July 19, 2002 Victorian Archetypes in a Steampunk World; Designer's Notes: GURPS Mars; Pyramid Review: Mean Streets RPG; Pyramid Review: World of Darkness: Mafia; Warehouse 23: The Ephemeral Suit; Suppressed Transmission: Know When To Say Wendigo; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Asgard As My Witness

July 26, 2002 Reign of Fire: A GURPS Cabal/Reign of Steel Crossover; When, Where, and How Much?: Early Scientific Instruments; Pyramid Pick: Unknown Armies, Second Edition; Pyramid Reviews: QAGS RPG & Galaxikhan Attacks!; Pyramid Review: Silver Age Sentinels, Deluxe Limited Edition; Creatures of the Night: Shadow Steeds; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Teaming Up The Kryptonian With Mam-El

August 02, 2002 Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII: Iron Cross; Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dread: Dark Lords in GURPS Discworld; Ignore At Your Peril: Warning Signs A Gaming Group Is Self-Destructing; Pyramid Review: Prophecies of the Dragon (for The Wheel of Time RPG); Pyramid Review: GURPS Prime Directive Core Rulebook; Pyramid Pick: Napoleon in Europe; Suppressed Transmission: Uwaysi Days, Uwaysi Nights; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Real Power Is Making Two Months Moot

August 09, 2002 Designer's Notes: Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game; Realistic Fantasy Worlds: The Impact of Magic on Social, Political, and Economic Structures; Cinematic Points!: GURPS Rules for Cinematic Play; Pyramid Review: Zombies!!! 2: Zombie Corps(e); Pyramid Review: The Epic Level Handbook (for Dungeons & Dragons); Warehouse 23: The Lyre of Orpheus; Random Thought Table: Odds and Ends 2002

August 16, 2002 Thrust! Parry! Spin!: Tactics for Cinematic Combat; Pyramid Review: Shadows of North America (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Pick: The Black Seal #1 (for Call of Cthulhu); Supporting Cast: Sergei Korolev, 'The Chief Designer'; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: More Than a Friendly Pace; Campaign in a Box: Robogenesis

August 23, 2002 Invitation to a Necktie Party; Cutting Edge Magic in GURPS; Pyramid Pick: Monster Island: The Game of Giant Monster Combat; Pyramid Review: Agora; Pyramid Review: Prawn LARP; Suppressed Transmission: In The Blink Of An Eye: The Mystery of Augustin Le Prince; Random Thought Table: Posterity Doesn't Need To Be A Pain In The Butt

August 30, 2002 Character Communications; New Cards for Deluxe Illuminati; De Arcanis Catholicae II: The Church Arcane; Appendix Z: What's Wrong With It?; Pyramid Review: When Darkness Comes: The Awakening; Pyramid Pick: Savage Seas (for Exalted RPG); Random Thought Table: Absent Players, Drooling Heroes

September 6, 2002 Guns That Might Have Been: Alternate Firearms for Alternate Histories; Heresy! Beware: It Can Happen In Any Campaign; Freedom of the Press: Journalism in GURPS Discworld; Pyramid Review: Full Clip: Hong Kong Action RPG; Pyramid Pick: Magic: The Gathering Online; Pyramid Review: Target: Wastelands (for Shadowrun); Random Thought Table: If It Has Stats, It Can Be Visited

September 13, 2002 To Have An Invisible Monster: Poltergeists for Call of Cthulhu; Arm of Decision: An Alternate Setting for Battletech; Pyramid Review: Gregory Horror Show; Pyramid Pick: Squint; Supporting Cast: Clay Allison; Suppressed Transmission: The Magickal History, or Historickal Majesty, of Mister Punch; Random Thought Table: We All Know How Painful Breaking Kayfabe Can Be . . .

September 20, 2002 With this Power Ring, I Thee Wed; In The Beginning . . .; Ten . . . HUT!!!: An Alternate Treatment of Military Rank for GURPS; Nonhuman Rights in the Transhuman United States; Pyramid Review: On Location: The Feng Shui GM Screen; A Brief History Of Dice; Pyramid Review: EABA Universal RPG; Pyramid Review: Gamemastering Secrets, 2nd Edition; Random Thought Table: Unexpect the Expected

September 06, 2002 Guns That Might Have Been: Alternate Firearms for Alternate Histories; Heresy! Beware: It Can Happen In Any Campaign; Freedom of the Press: Journalism in GURPS Discworld; Pyramid Review: Full Clip: Hong Kong Action RPG; Pyramid Pick: Magic: The Gathering Online; Pyramid Review: Target: Wastelands (for Shadowrun); Random Thought Table: If It Has Stats, It Can Be Visited

September 20, 2002 With this Power Ring, I Thee Wed; In The Beginning . . .; Ten . . . HUT!!!: An Alternate Treatment of Military Rank for GURPS; Nonhuman Rights in the Transhuman United States; Pyramid Review: On Location: The Feng Shui GM Screen; A Brief History Of Dice; Pyramid Review: EABA Universal RPG; Pyramid Review: Gamemastering Secrets, 2nd Edition; Random Thought Table: Unexpect the Expected

September 13, 2002 To Have An Invisible Monster: Poltergeists for Call of Cthulhu; Arm of Decision: An Alternate Setting for Battletech; Pyramid Review: Gregory Horror Show; Pyramid Pick: Squint; Supporting Cast: Clay Allison; Suppressed Transmission: The Magickal History, or Historickal Majesty, of Mister Punch; Random Thought Table: We All Know How Painful Breaking Kayfabe Can Be . . .

September 27, 2002 Windy City, Wayward Souls; Bam! Pow! Ouch! Damage, Healing, And Fatigue For GURPS Supers; Appendix Z: Vehicular Mayhem; Pyramid Review: Hundred Kingdoms Official Boxed Game; Pyramid Review: Silver Age Sentinels -- d20 Edition; Pyramid Review: TransAmerica: One Step Ahead; Random Thought Table: All Those Foreshadowing, Say I

October 04, 2002 Designer's Notes: Special Ops, Third Edition; Late Victorian Law Enforcement; Pyramid Review: Virus Alert! Card Game; Pyramid Review: State of the Art: 2063 (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Review: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Core Book; Adventure Pizza: The Quest for the Masters; Suppressed Transmission: Headpiece Filled With Straw: The Scarecrow; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: All Of This Has Happened Before

October 11, 2002 Designer's Notes: GURPS Modern Firepower; . . . And Sinker: Giving Your GM Plot Hooks; Pyramid Review: Gold Digger; Pyramid Review: The Resurrected III: Out of the Vault (for Call of Cthulhu); Pyramid Review: The Moonstruck (for Hunter: the Reckoning); Terra Incognita: Eden, the Lost Colony; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Not Giving Subgenres Das Boot (Part I)

October 18, 2002 Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII: Return to Honor; Cosmic Tilt; Pyramid Review: The Great Space Drag Race; Pyramid Review: Wake of the Comet (for Shadowrun); Random Thought Table: Not Giving Subgenres Das Boot (Part II); Campaign in a Box: The Bat Pack

October 25, 2002 A Thread Winding Backwards; Blood Magic in GURPS; Pyramid Pick: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game; Pyramid Pick: Freeloader Board Game; Pyramid Review: Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom; Warehouse 23: The Purgatory Mark; Suppressed Transmission: Bride of Clio's Nightmares; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: A Loose-Fitting Straightjacket

November 01, 2002 Heat Wave: The Rookies Begin; Common Misapprehensions in Swordplay; The God WSHN; Designer's Notes: GURPS Deadlands: Hexes; Pyramid Review: MechWarrior: Dark Age; Pyramid Review: Fightball; Random Thought Table: Looking For The One Good Thing

November 08, 2002 Swashbuckling in Sidebars: Additional Details for GURPS Swashbucklers; The School of Tobaccomancy; Pyramid Review: Gamer Tycoon Card Game; Pyramid Review: Fantasy Busine$$ Card Game; Pyramid Review: Reading The Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel; Terra Incognita: Mangaseya -- Ghost Town on the Kara Sea; Random Thought Table: Punchy Music, Snoozing Players

November 15, 2002 The Garage: Samples for GURPS Vehicles Lite; Adding Depth To The Whole: Approaches To Building Interesting Characters; Pyramid Review: Hamlet! A Game In 5 Acts; Pyramid Review: Armada X RPG; Suppressed Transmission: A Little Bird Told Me: The Language of the Birds; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Adventuring Means Never Doing Paperwork

November 22, 2002 Pyramid Review: Traveller T20 (for d20); Pyramid Review: Godsend Agenda; Lovecraftian Supers: Using the Mythos to Power Your Metahumans; TransToony Space; Taking Orders, Taking Charge; Cold Fury: New Options for Berserk in GURPS; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table:Roll Die, Say ‘Hi’, Decide

November 29, 2002 The CIA's Grimoire; Designer's Notes: Transhuman Space Personnel Files; Gestalt Personalities: A Quick Sketch About Quick Sketches; Pyramid Review: The Great Weird North (for Deadlands and Deadlands d20); Pyramid Review: Sucking Vacuum; Creatures Of The Night: Anamiae; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: I Know I Don't Like Not Knowing

December 06, 2002 Austria Is Not Enough; Virtual Safari Cyber Zoo Park; Pyramid Pick: Nanofictionary; Pyramid Review: Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers; Supporting Cast: Ben 'Scoop' Stevens; Suppressed Transmission: Judgment At Norumbega; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Lies -- The Key To Comprehension

December 13, 2002 Waging The Battle Royal: Roleplaying Low-Tech Battles; Scrapyard Battles; Appendix Z: Red Tape Triumphant; Pyramid Review: Lost Colony (tied to Hell on Earth and Hell on Earth d20); Pyramid Review: Are You A Werewolf?; Pyramid Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game Director's Screen; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Where Would I Be Without IBM?

December 20, 2002 Pyramid Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Strategy Battle Game; Pyramid Review: Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame; Tri-Eye: A Voice from the Wilderness for Modern-Day Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green; Suppressed Transmission: This Dark Conspiracy: The Tragedy of Richard II; Random Thought Table: Oh, Well -- Maybe Next Year We'll Meet The Great Pumpkin; Campaign In A Box: Immaculata Colony

December 27, 2002 The Car as the Star; It's How You Plague The Game: Determining How A Cataclysmic Contagion Affects Your Game World; Pyramid Pick: Mutants & Masterminds RPG (based on d20 System); Pyramid Review: Terra Primate RPG; Pyramid Review: Knots; Supporting Cast: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth; Random Thought Table: Things We'd Gladly Take For Granted, If Only They Existed


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