Purple
(She/Her)
So earlier I had some company over, talking about tabletop games, talking about fighting games, and I got onto the thought of "hey, you ever play Lost Worlds?"
I'm kinda hoping at least a few people here know what I'm talking about. You've got a character sheet that looks like this, and you've got a booklet that looks like this:
You trade books with your opponent, flip to the page corresponding to what move you're using, look up your opponent's move number in the little matrix, flip to the indicated page number, and tada. You have a POV shot of your opponent, base damage you're doing (modified by what you did), and a set of restrictions/penalties/bonuses to give your opponent for their next action. It's neat, it's a cool tabletop take on a fighting game essentially (while predating the genre I'm pretty sure, coming from 1983 or so). In addition to the fantasy version here, there was a WW2 dogfight version, a Battletech version, later attempts to rework it with more named characters/fiddling inventory bits, some weirdly horny later sets, and I think most recently, a weirdly horny licensed set.
And it is just, like, GONE.
I didn't have time when my friend was here to rummage through my closet and find my books for it, and kinda figured I could just demo it online somehow or other, but... no. Nobody ever scanned and dumped the books online that I can find, nobody seems to be selling them, aside from weirdos asking like $700 for a single book in used condition. It seems like all the many publishers who carried the game over the years are gone now. The designer is dead.
So... OK there is clearly something to be said for me going through my closet, finding the ones I have, scanning them for preservation's sake, and maybe selling them and getting filthy rich, but for now, seriously, does anyone else even remember this game, or the variants? Still have it? Know good online resources for it?
I'm kinda hoping at least a few people here know what I'm talking about. You've got a character sheet that looks like this, and you've got a booklet that looks like this:
You trade books with your opponent, flip to the page corresponding to what move you're using, look up your opponent's move number in the little matrix, flip to the indicated page number, and tada. You have a POV shot of your opponent, base damage you're doing (modified by what you did), and a set of restrictions/penalties/bonuses to give your opponent for their next action. It's neat, it's a cool tabletop take on a fighting game essentially (while predating the genre I'm pretty sure, coming from 1983 or so). In addition to the fantasy version here, there was a WW2 dogfight version, a Battletech version, later attempts to rework it with more named characters/fiddling inventory bits, some weirdly horny later sets, and I think most recently, a weirdly horny licensed set.
And it is just, like, GONE.
I didn't have time when my friend was here to rummage through my closet and find my books for it, and kinda figured I could just demo it online somehow or other, but... no. Nobody ever scanned and dumped the books online that I can find, nobody seems to be selling them, aside from weirdos asking like $700 for a single book in used condition. It seems like all the many publishers who carried the game over the years are gone now. The designer is dead.
So... OK there is clearly something to be said for me going through my closet, finding the ones I have, scanning them for preservation's sake, and maybe selling them and getting filthy rich, but for now, seriously, does anyone else even remember this game, or the variants? Still have it? Know good online resources for it?
