12/24/2023 0 Comments Cutebaby kobolds![]() The game still squeezes in enough fluff to understand the setting, but the book falls short when it comes to providing GM (referred to as “the Mayor”) material. The book is only 50 pages, which makes all the rules easy to find. There’s no option to use a base stat if you don’t have a skill though, so you’ll have to wade across that river if you don’t know how to Swim. For example, the Speak Human skill allows a kobold to speak only seven words of human speech, which the player determines and writes on the back of their sheet. I appreciated the skill selection because they were varied and fun. It’s a unique system without being complicated. Attacker’s roll the defender’s agility in dice, and the attacker needs to roll under their own attack stat. I couldn’t grasp the combat when I tried it years ago, but it makes sense now that I’ve experienced a variety of systems. ![]() KAMB! is simple to play, which may have been to our detriment. But I ran an adventure for only two players on a lazy, beerless Sunday afternoon, and while I had a great time, the players felt unsatisfied. A game can be put together in a few minutes, and the sessions are as brief as the short lives of most kobolds. It’s easy to see why the game became so popular at cons. The game would just be better received by players if it was treated more as a party game than a roleplaying game. Not that I think you need to be plastered to enjoy it. ![]() Kobolds Ate My Baby! is billed as “the Beer and Pretzels” roleplaying game, and it lives up to that description because it really would have been improved with some beer. It was neck and neck until the very end, when Kobolds Ate My Baby! claimed the win. The real competition, however, was between Kobolds Ate My Baby! and Primordial Soup. Scotland Yard was the least favored game, but it did earn a few votes. Last week, I put up a poll to have our readers choose which of these lost games would be played next. I’ve acquired so many games over the past few years that I’ve never even played several of them.
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