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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Signs and Paranoias 

Mongoose Publishing's free Signs and Portents magazine has no less than two PARANOIA-related articles. The Roleplayer section of the magazine (be warned - it's a five-megabyte .PDF document), available here, has an article entitled Paranoia Paperwork by Daniel R. Robichaud, aka Hip-Y-TTS. The article includes such delights as the Revised Security Clearance Form, Draft 9871, for when you need to reclassify a duct as GREEN in a hurry.

Meanwhile, over in the Wargamer section (also a .PDF, this one a chunky nine megs, downloadable here, there's an article on crossing over PARANOIA with the Gangs of Mega-City One skirmish wargame. The article is by Matt Thomason. If you've ever wanted to see how Troubleshooters would do against Judges in a skirmish-level firefight, you're in the right place.

Commendation points to both citizens!

Now that I think about it, the whole Judge Dredd series has some interesting parallels to PARANOIA. Both have millions of people crammed into a post-apocayptic urban dystopia, ruled by fear and dredd - er, dread, as well as bizarre corporate products, satirical elements, and lots and lots of guns. IntSec Officers modelled on the Judges, anyone?
Posted by: Gareth / 7:47 PM

Comments:
Sounds interesting! Jud-G-DRD-1 rules the streets of Mega Complex 1! :P
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : October 27, 2006 3:09 AM
 
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