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Alpha Complexities
This adventure An incredibly frightening briefing; a desperate battle against invisible Communists; loads of defective R&D equipment; an exciting (and probably one-way) trip to the Outdoors; a host of severely disturbed bots; and a Gotterdammerungesque battle against the greatest villain in the history of trashy science fiction.
You know -- the usual.
You know -- the usual.
- GenresRole Playing Games
48 pages
First published January 1, 1988
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October 23, 2023
The first adventure of Paranoia's Second Edition. I think. It reads like a first adventure, trying to mess with format. The first thing to notice is the art.
It's got Jim Holloway's energy, but it isn't his. It would mark a departure for second edition away from Holloway's superlative art and it would just go downhill from here. This isn't too bad. I quite like the cover and the interior illustrations aren't bad. But as the edition wore on the art would become unrecognizable as Paranoia.
Anyway, this adventure is a solid decent. It has some fun callbacks (in the form of the Mark IV Warbot) and proceeds at a gleeful pace from minor incident at a confession booth to the possible annihilation of Alpha Complex. It's well set up and the mission isn't even that much of a hosejob on the whole. The high points for 2nd Edition would come early but at least the art is still good. Things will hit a nadir when 2nd edition got subsumed by metaplot hell.
It's got Jim Holloway's energy, but it isn't his. It would mark a departure for second edition away from Holloway's superlative art and it would just go downhill from here. This isn't too bad. I quite like the cover and the interior illustrations aren't bad. But as the edition wore on the art would become unrecognizable as Paranoia.
Anyway, this adventure is a solid decent. It has some fun callbacks (in the form of the Mark IV Warbot) and proceeds at a gleeful pace from minor incident at a confession booth to the possible annihilation of Alpha Complex. It's well set up and the mission isn't even that much of a hosejob on the whole. The high points for 2nd Edition would come early but at least the art is still good. Things will hit a nadir when 2nd edition got subsumed by metaplot hell.
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