Booty and the Beasts Available!

[Aplus]

Looks like Wayne's Books is selling a copy for $200. It's a really awesome book, and is rarely available for sale.

www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000GPSHTA/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

It should also be noted that Black Blade Publishing is supposedly working with Erol Otus to get Booty and the Beasts and The Necomican in print again. I hope they do and I hope it happens soon!

[Thorulfr]

$199.99?? I wonder if it actually sells at that price - I think I may still have a spare copy on my shelf....

[Aplus]

I would buy it if it weren't for the fact that it's supposed to be reprinted in the near future.

[Melan]

Mar 21, 2012 10:38:58 GMT -6 Aplus said:

It should also be noted that Black Blade Publishing is supposedly working with Erol Otus to get Booty and the Beasts and The Necomican in print again. I hope they do and I hope it happens soon!

Now that is good news. I have always wanted to own these, fungus saucers and all that, but, you know, they cost lots of money.

[geoffrey]

Mar 21, 2012 10:38:58 GMT -6 Aplus said:

It should also be noted that Black Blade Publishing is supposedly working with Erol Otus to get Booty and the Beasts and The Necomican in print again.

Booty and the Beasts is awesome. The monsters therein make the bizarre monsters in my Isle of the Unknown look tame and traditional in comparison. The only monster book that is even weirder than B&B is Judges Guild's Field Guide to Encounters, which has giant breakfast items (such as over-easy eggs, strips of bacon, cups of coffee, cigarettes, etc.) that will try to kill you.

I've never seen The Necomican. If it's half as weird as B&B, it will be right up my alley.

[Thorulfr]

Mar 22, 2012 13:40:15 GMT -6 geoffrey said:

Booty and the Beasts is awesome. The monsters therein make the bizarre monsters in my Isle of the Unknown look tame and traditional in comparison. The only monster book that is even weirder than B&B is Judges Guild's Field Guide to Encounters, which has giant breakfast items (such as over-easy eggs, strips of bacon, cups of coffee, cigarettes, etc.) that will try to kill you.

Surreality, high camp, drug humor, "Bored of the Rings", Monty Pythonisms...
Are those some of the telltale characteristics of "Old School Dungeons", or just of going to high school in the 70's?

[Finarvyn]

Mar 23, 2012 11:07:41 GMT -6 Thorulfr said:

Surreality, high camp, drug humor, "Bored of the Rings", Monty Pythonisms...

Are those some of the telltale characteristics of "Old School Dungeons", or just of going to high school in the 70's?

A little of both, I suspect. Back in the 1970's Saturday Night Live was cool. Monty Python was awesome (particularly the Holy Grail). At the same time, we were pretty juvinile. Probably a bad mix.

One of our players created a "rock star" character class. Dunno if anyone ever bothered to play it, but at the time he thought it was neat.

Also those were the days where we experimented with 20th and higher level characters. We grew out of that and I haven't run one or allowed one in 25 years, but at the time it seemed cool.

And lots of the dungeon products of the day had a hint of absurdity. The Wee Warriors product DWARVEN GLORY (maybe I misrecall the name) had a cache of Dwarven Ripple wine. None of us even drank, but we thought it was so funny that I still put it in most of my megadungeons. (My current players don't see the humor at all. I'm not sure I do anymore, either.)

So, I'm sure that a lot of the wackiness was a product of the era and the age of the creators. We didn't always take gaming so seriously back then.

[grodog]

Mar 22, 2012 11:23:32 GMT -6 Melan said:

Mar 21, 2012 10:38:58 GMT -6 Aplus said:

It should also be noted that Black Blade Publishing is supposedly working with Erol Otus to get Booty and the Beasts and The Necomican in print again. I hope they do and I hope it happens soon!

Now that is good news. I have always wanted to own these, fungus saucers and all that, but, you know, they cost lots of money.

Just to clarify: I'm pretty sure that Erol and Paul are planning to release Booty and Necromican; we're talking to them about some other books (although we'd like to do those two as well, of course! ).

[kesher]

@fin: Well, ripple wine, at least, is a product of the 70s (it always starts some Arlo Guthrie song going in my head...) I'd laugh if I found it in your dungeon!

geoffrey: The Field Guide to Encounters is one of the most awesome RPG products ever created! Not only toast, but their primitive (or just pissed off?) brethren, BURNT toast!