Oct 10
New Guy Comments: Is there anything in your rules against science fiction gamebook covers?
“Technically” not against the GSS rules. Have to allow it. — Tag Wizard
Published 1983
New Guy Comments: Is there anything in your rules against science fiction gamebook covers?
“Technically” not against the GSS rules. Have to allow it. — Tag Wizard
Published 1983
October 10th, 2018 at 9:52 am
Are those…Football players?!? Deformed football players? Where’s Mutual Chest Groper’s legs? Is Blue player missing half an arm? Where’s the rest of Guy on the Ground’s body? What exactly is Guy on the Ground doing? Nibbling Blue Player’s kneecap off?
I have a feeling the rules here are team against team, and, oh yeah, don’t let the murderbot catch you.
October 10th, 2018 at 10:43 am
Funnily enough, this depiction of a hopeless battle against an immovable foe perfectly sums up the book. Because the Steve Jackson ones were BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:18 pm
The spectators better get in for free because the view of the action is total crap.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Warning! Parsing error. An unexpected error occurred in the visual analysis subsystem. Error code: WTF am I looking at.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:31 pm
We have some serious hunkbutt happening here.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:56 pm
Still a better football team than the Cleveland Browns…
October 10th, 2018 at 3:59 pm
My head hurts looking at this cover.
October 10th, 2018 at 4:49 pm
In the locker room before the preliminary trials of this year’s Darwin Awards competition:
“Okay guys, let’s dress up in some inadequate football equipment, then add some inadequate Roman gladiator stuff and then we’ll attack this 10-foot tall invincible titanium robot and not quit until we’re just a mass of bloody stumps. Go Team!”
October 10th, 2018 at 5:59 pm
American football gets odder by the year. Is this how the NFL is trying to boost sagging viewer numbers?
October 10th, 2018 at 8:47 pm
Combat System for Alien Encounters, Score Sheet for tight end Steve Jackson
Round 1: attacked robot, lost arm
Round 2: attacked robot, lost another arm
Round 3: attacked robot, lost lower leg
Round 4: attacked robot, lost upper leg
Round 5: attacked robot, lost blood, most of it anyway
Round 6: attacked robot, lost all will to live
Round 7: declared victory
October 10th, 2018 at 11:14 pm
With superior numbers, the best way to attack a solo opponent is always single file.
October 11th, 2018 at 12:50 am
Actually that’s the referee, and the players are vigorously disputing his latest call. The referee is preparing to discipline one of the players.
October 11th, 2018 at 2:30 am
I… guess… it’s good that amputees can play future football? Ground Guy is going compleat Black Knight, attempting to bite Blue Guy’s kneecaps off. I think Aerial Spiky Guy is wearing some sort of anti-grav belt to be up that high.
At least in the future, men will be forced to wear midriff-displaying shirts.
@Bruce: It makes sense that the robot is the referee, since the players seem to be in a blue team and a red team. Home field advantage for blue team. Also lower limb advantage.
@fred: I can’t tell from this painting whether there are any spectators or not. Is it actually a stadium, or merely a big curved apartment building near a park which these people and bot have taken over for their bizarre game?
@B’mancer: It’s a rather mediocre butt, but it does deserve the “hunkbutt” tag. I’m worried about his spine, rib cage, and back muscles — they look weird.
@Cygnia: heh! (for furriners and non-sportsballers, that joke is both obvious and not far from true)
@BC: That would jibe with my “not a stadium, just guys doing something dumb” theory. At some point, at least one of them said “Hold my beer.”
October 11th, 2018 at 4:11 am
Maybe it’s me, but I don’t see any starships or travellers.
October 11th, 2018 at 12:54 pm
To the left, Colin Kaepernick protests against robot violence in sports.
October 12th, 2018 at 12:57 am
@ARY: Gives new meaning to the phrase “took a knee”. Something took both knees and most of the legs.
@Raoul: Maybe the robot is a traveler? Considering how big the moon is, the humans (if that’s what they are) had to have taken a starship there.
December 25th, 2018 at 3:07 pm
Sadly, this was actually turned into a game available on Steam for only $3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/348180/Starship_Traveller/