There’s a fella named Jeff Vogel who’s been making indie, shoestring budget RPGs since the mid-’90s. He’s gotten kind of a bum rap lately because of his penchant for playing it way too safe — all his games are almost identical mechanically, his series tend to run for five or six games each, and he’s currently in the process of remaking his most famous series for the second time. Jeff’s an undeniably talented creator, though, a fact I became wise to the moment I played Exile III in the late ’90s. I could have written this about any of Spiderweb
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Exile Goes Free
Just a quick heads-up post today. A bit of breaking news, if you will. (Please note: my working definition of breaking news here includes anything I just found out about, regardless of how long it’s been public knowledge.) As of <some time in the semi-recent past>, the greatest RPG trilogy of all time is now freeware! That is, Jeff Vogel has released his classic RPG series, Exile, for free on his website. I don’t know about you, but that’s pretty big news for me, even if I own the trilogy twice over already. Since time immemorial, I’ve considered it one