Save For Half episode # 19: Bullwinkle & Rocky RP Party Game

[sieg]

It’s party time here in the Halfling Hideaway, and what's more of a party than a Party RPG? It says so, right on the box! Yes, it’s the Bullwinkle and Rocky Roleplaying Party game, from 1988. You demanded it (sorta), so we're here to bring it to you!

Can Boris really 'Kill Moose'? Does Sherman and his boy face weeping angels in the time vortex? Can Dudley Do-Right face off against Frost Giants? Ok, only one of those is correct; but you'll have to listen to find out which one!

No mooses were killed in the making of this episode, not even ones with rabbits coming out of his hat!

It's all here at: saveforhalf.com/

Links mentioned in this show:

Boardgamegeek - Bullwinkle & Rocky RP Party Game
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1611/bullwinkle-and-rocky-role-playing-party-game

Noble Knight Games - Bullwinkle & Rocky RP Party Game
www.nobleknight.com/P/-869170550/Bullwinkle-and-Rocky

Rick & Morty at IMDB
www.imdb.com/title/tt2861424/

Wikipedia - Bullwinkle & Rocky RP Party Game
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwinkle_and_Rocky_Role-Playing_Party_Game


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[scottenkainen]

Dang, I may actually have to listen to a podcast soon...

[sieg]

LOL If I'd known that, we would've covered a game with hand puppets earlier.

Mike

[scottenkainen]

I'm 23 minutes in already! That's far for me with a podcast...

Finally, one of you is talking about how there wasn't a great void between the original Bullwinkle and Rocky TV show and the release of this party game. Besides keeping the series alive in syndication and on VHS tape compilations, there were other licensed products out there. In fact, Marvel Comics was sporadically publishing a Bullwinkle and Rocky comic book at the same time, in their Star Comics imprint.

While I do agree that Zeb Cook was likely just a huge Bullwinkle and Rocky fan, there is the possibility that this was a backdoor effort to promote a Marvel Comic to rebuild relations with them.

[scottenkainen]

36 minutes...yes! Tom Wham art would have been SO GOOD for this game!

[scottenkainen]

Boo! The original Marvel Super Heroes boxed set was solid gold! The narrative structure of having the characters explain the rules to you was fantastic.

[sieg]

Glad you're enjoying it! I didn't know about the comic....was the star imprint the same run with Spider Ham?

Tom W.'s art doesn't always get the respect it deserves IMO. How different the 1E DMG would've been without his panels!

Mike

[scottenkainen]

I made it through the whole thing! I haven't done that with a podcast in a long time.

Yes, a follow-up boxed set covering Super Chicken, Tom Slick, George of the Jungle (and going further back, to Crusader Rabbit) could have been just as great or greater.

[scottenkainen]

Yes, exactly! Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham helped launch the Star Comics imprint two years earlier, in 1985. By '87, Star Comics seemed to be floundering already and, when the Bullwinkle and Rocky book was produced, they couldn't maintain it as a monthly title. I think only nine issues were printed between '87 and '89, and by then Star Comics was dead.

[sieg]

Funny, I never saw any books other than Spider Ham at my FLCS. Guess it was a matter of demand.

Anyway, glad you liked the show...Liz has wanted to cover B&R for some time now, and if Jim follows through with his threat at NTRPG Con next year we'll discuss it on the show.

mike

[Starbeard]

Great episode!

That's strange about the typesetting. There must have been a reason for it, otherwise why would 1988 TSR let such a wonky layout out the door? The only reasons I can think of are if the layout was meant to reference something from the show, or if the margins were originally supposed to be filled with artwork that framed the text.

[sieg]

<shrug> Makes more sense than anything I came up with.

Maybe if Jim does the Rick & Morty game next year we can record it for an AP 'cast.

Mike