[RPG]: Control: The Game of Absolute Power, reviewed by thespiderprince (3/5)

[RPGnet Reviews]

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14336.phtml

August's Summary:

The Illuminati is in no way related to, behind, responsible for, connected with, allied to, affiliated with, concomitant with, or of the persuasion of said author. Nano-bombs do not get injected into the base of people's skulls, nor do such things as sorcery or superscience exist. There are no such things as Men In Black, black masses, time travel, ghosts, specters, spirits, sprites or big foot. At least not today anyway...

Fnord!

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[ACÓNITO]

Hey, there!

Thanks to your revue I went I bought it at Amazon!

I am vvaiting vvith bated breath...

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[Garv the Barbarian]

Hey! Thanks for the kind words! For those interested, you might want to head over to DriveThruRPG to snag the "Revisionist History Edition.". A few of the problems with the original are cleaned up, and some material is expanded (very slightly).

Just to whet your appetites; I am currently playtesting rules for psychic powers.

But you didn't hear that from me. I was never here. You must be mistaken.

Lee Garvin's simulacrum

[Nawara]

Good review, but I found the review summary to be unbearably annoying and lame. First of all, Control is not a Steve Jackson Illuminati-themed game; the summary implies that it's going to be wacky and stupid by default, and it's not (though you could play it that way if you wanted to). Second, even if it was a Steve Jackson Illuminati-themed game, the review summary would still have been entirely unhelpful and, well, lame. I almost skipped the review expecting it to me more of the same old 1996 in-jokes.

Can we just go ahead and ban the word "Fnord" from all reviews? Nobody thinks that's funny except, like, fifty guys on the Steve Jackson forums.