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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by Chet C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/19/2013 17:10:26

All right, I'll admit it. I'm the person who can't keep all the versions of Renegade straight. Is Corruption the expanded ruleset or is it the Advanced version? All I know is that it has more pages than one of the Renegades and not as many as another. Or is it the other way around?

What you have here is Original something-and-something with better editing (even self-editing beats no editing) and a "voice" in the text which speaks to someone who is not familiar with miniatures rules and jargon. Yes, when I read that Original game, I was utterly lost and made almost everything up on the fly. In a way, I liked that. Yet I also wanted to know what the actual nuts & bolts were, what made things tie together into a cohesive system. In short, I wanted to know what the script was that I was ad-libbing to.

So it helps - a lot - that I can understand what Renegade is saying to me, and demonstrating to me how to play and run it. I really like the fact that it still allows me to ad-lib and house rule to my heart's content. There's almost a console-type of structure to it, where I can pull one unit out, replace it with a house rule, and the odds are that they'll all work together.

Renegade ~ Corruption adds a sense of dirt and sweat to basic Renegade. Imagine a "good" junky Steve Reeves Hercules movie of 1959 or 1960. Now add a good episode of Baretta and the smell of a high school gym's locker room. And - something - or someone - which is in the gameworld just to get you, personally.

So imagine Original x&x with a touch of Call of Cthulhu - not the Old Ones coming to get you (usually) but the claustrophobic, paranoid sense of things. Or compare a 1950s "the Gorilla Boss of Gotham" to "the Dark Knight Returns." Each are entertaining (and the former is my favorite Batman story of that era) but one is just - dirtier - than the other. Heroes aren't just flawed here. Sometimes, it seems everyone carries a bit of corruption in them.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by Greg S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/15/2012 08:48:07

This is my go-to Old School game. It can run a dungeon crawl for kids one day and a creepy, bloodthirsty session for mates the next. A pick-up and go system.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by Kim L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/29/2012 15:10:18

Dark like it says, rock-bottom price, killer art. Cool!



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by Jim H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/24/2012 08:44:36

Corruption specializes in how to make a campaign more gritty, nervy and unsettling. The game is laced with ways to scare and pressure players, from dark themes to omens and 'unsettling events', e.g. 'your new friend’s home is nice but there’s a severed head in the larder.' The hidden threats wash out darker than a blood-spattered page layout.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by David A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/26/2012 07:52:57

I have S&W Complete and OSRIC and don't need more rules. Got Corruption for new monsters and magic items. The rules are what you expect from S&W /Old School.

Not tried using an extra corruption score to measure alignment. The bonus XP to reward good play works very well.

The rest is what I started looking for. Monster races like Ravenswings, Chameleons, Horror Hornets, magic items ready for Old School play . . . The surprise was tons about gritty play, tricks, making play dark . . . Plus step-by-steps fro making modules and campaigns. Great value!



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Corruption
Publisher: Dragonfly
by ian h. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/04/2012 09:51:53

At last a clone in a PDF with 1 column, proper bookmarks and a large font. The document works well on my tablet. The "twist of evil" is 100+ pages in and pretty much worth the wait.



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