Let's try that without any formatting to mess things up...
As a potential RPG thread could threaten the general boardgame thread - here's a list of what got released to start the dice rolling...
Mongoose - D20, Sláine
Sláine: The Roleplaying Game of Celtic Heroes for d20 (rulebook)
Tir Nan Og (sourcebook)
Horned Lord and Moon Sow: The Invulnerable King (scenario)
Horned Lord and Moon Sow: The Teeth of the Moon Sow (scenario)
Horned Lord and Moon Sow: The Ragnarok Book (scenario)
Horned Lord and Moon Sow: Way of the Horned God (scenario)
The Sessair (sourcebook)
The Fir Domain (sourcebook)
The Falians (sourcebook)
The Finians (sourcebook)
Sláine: The Roleplaying Game of Celtic Heroes for MRQ (rulebook)
If only you knew how hard it was for me to source the
Finans source book through the military book store from the nearest city roughly tens years ago now. I had started buying them whilst I was living in caravan park in
Sydney. I had brought one of the new
Horned God novels that were also just rereleased back then as well. The ones that were printed in two book format. I'm not sure which one, but one of them got soaked after buying that one from either
Comic Book Kings or
Kings Comics in their CBD. That place new the resturaunt with the three monkeys sculpture on the street corner. I brought core rule book with only eighty bucks spending money left over for food after paying my caravan allowance. At the time I thought I might have waited until I was earning more money, but was very excited to get his book.....
I then began to buy the other remaining books (Before I vacated the caravan park at the eve of
News Years day.) in the subsequent fortnights. There were a few more books I still had to get before I stopped buying them all together for the time being. These were all being purchased from
Games Paradise on
Pitt street. I had to return home up here almost three years later when I tried to resume purchasing the rest of those.
This military bookstore whom I won't name, did comply for a few more of those books, but not the
Finans which they stated was out of print & I even asked
Mongoose Publishing themselves via their forums. They said the same thing, but I was able to source a copy of the book through
Ebay once I had got my debit card set up. It was such a bitch trying to purchase anything online without one. The book was still in it's plastic wrapping like a lot of them were. They were still brand new, not second hand!!!!
I was annoyed by their attempts to stop me from buying this book and made a lot of noise about it here on the
MP website. That
Military boost store is now no longer there, but they have another store in
Sydney Their staff definitely don't like me, but I'm not really sure why they disappeared otherwise.
The books themselves are just souvenirs to me . I don't think I will ever be playing that game anytime soon. Not any RPG actually, unless it's online MMO, or just a forum game. Although, the author who isn't
Pat Mills had some very interesting theories about
Slaine & his world based on what he research and had got from the comics. Back then, I didn't have access to
Slaine in his entirety so far & was at a lost for much of it too. I find book knowledge very satisfying enough, but always had a issue with
Slaine being from race of
Warped-Ones rather than just being human man who possessed a gift from the
Earth-Goddess.
Mongoose Publishing then dropped the
D20 game when there were plans to write more sourve books concerning the
Fortress of Dinas Emyrs,
Drunelords,
Cythrawl,
El-Worlds & everything you wanted to know about
Pluke!!!!
Yet they were cancelled. I think whomever was doing this ran out of licence to write about it. Such a shame, as I was otherwise enjoying they're take on it.
Then the
Slaine - RuneQuest which used all the
Clint Lanely art work in black n white variety. If you weren't lucky enough to win the limited edition book using photo real colours. I might try to source that one. That book was the only one they did for that game that was also dropped.
Then they were going to write a
Legends version & brought the core rules for that. They were pocket version. Not sure I like this, and told them that they might like to see if they could get rope the
Paladium rules guy into doing this along with
Judge Dredd,
Strontium Dog (Which had also been as
RPGS based on the rules for
Traveller!) and then there were plans for
Rogue Trooper &
Nemesis the Warlock......