World Action And Adventure
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World Action and Adventure is a role-playing game published by M.S. Kinney Corporation in 1985.
Description[edit]
World Action and Adventure is a universal system, with character creation, skill, combat, and mass combat rules.[1] The boxed set includes the Official Guide, a GM's screen, character record sheets, and blank forms.[1]
Publication history[edit]
World Action and Adventure was designed by Gregory L. Kinney, and published by M.S. Kinney Corporation in 1985 as a boxed set containing a 160-page hardcover book, a cardstock screen, a packet of blank forms, a small pad of character sheets, and dice.[1]
Reception[edit]
Lawrence Schick comments: "WA&A is beyond doubt the nicest RPG ever published. The three books attempt to describe everything on Earth from a staggeringly naive worldview. The rulebooks consist of a multitude of very general tables that list everything the author could think of. The descriptions that accompany the tables are so ingenuous, they're just priceless. Then there's the poem, "World Action and Adventure": 20 verses, each describing a different aspect of adventure. An excerpt: 'Pyramids are being built/the Pharaoh has a suppressed guilt/so many slaves they thirst and die/to build these things that touch the sky" ... it just goes on and on."[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 398–399. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
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Articles and reviews[edit]
- World Action and Adventure, By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 5th, 2020, at unwinnable website.