Kingbeast's Lair

During the early 90’s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen. At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS. Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts. 😉

Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on Hero Games product reviews/rules, video game reviews, comic book reviews, and other miscellaneous news items that would be appropriate for my gaming group. Looking back I think doing the small reviews in these issues whet my appetite for the type of more in depth reviews that I am performing now on this very blog.

You can find copies of the currently posted issues at this URL: https://usandacat.com/thelair/file-downloads/other-files/

Issues 11 to 20 include the following highlights:

• More of Seth’s Rules Of Dungeoneering.
• The supervillain origin story of one of the most insane…or is that inane…villains of all time…Mad Merc!
• An U.N.T.I.L. file on Mad Merc’s card throwing partner in crime…The Spade. “The Spade File” is penned by Rudy Fuentez.
• The superhero origin story of Lunatic Fringe…aka “Johnny’s Tale”. One of my favorite PC superhero backgrounds of all time from Steve Brickman. Well worth a read!
• A Fantasy Hero character background called “Ip’s Tale” by one of my superb regulars Jim Schaff.
• The Three F’s Of Gaming…hummm…note to self…turn this series into a full blown blog post. 🙂
• An article on The Psychologically Well Rounded Team
• Reviews of Ninja Hero and Day Of The Destroyer.
• More funny gaming quotes.

More issues are coming soon! Watch this blog for details! 🙂

During the early 90’s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen. At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS. Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts. 😉

Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on Hero Games product reviews/rules, video game reviews, comic book reviews, and other miscellaneous news items that would be appropriate for my gaming group. Looking back I think doing the small reviews in these issues whet my appetite for the type of more in depth reviews that I am performing now on this very blog.

You can find copies of the currently posted issues at this URL: https://usandacat.com/thelair/file-downloads/other-files/

The first 10 issues include the following highlights:

• Quotes from gaming sessions.
• Incorporating rules from Mystic Masters.
• My own set of Danger International rules for playing Cyberpunk.
• Product reviews of the old Champions Shield, Mind Games, Mystic Masters, Challenges For Champions, Zodiac Conspiracy, and Invasion: Target Earth.
• The start of the infamous Seth’s Rules Of Dungeoneering.

More issues are coming soon! Watch this blog for details! 🙂

While cleaning up some binders and such at home I unearthed some CD-ROMs that contain backups of the Checkered Demon BBS! By doing some poking around I was also able to construct a file list and recover many of the files that were posted as downloads in the RPG section. If you go to the Other downloads page on my site you can find this very list. 🙂

If you would like to have copies of some of these files available for download on Kingbeast’s Lair please shoot me an email and I will see what I can do. Note that SOME of these files appear to be corrupted. 🙁 I can only offer to do my best to recover them.

There are some other benefits of this discovery. I will soon be posting EVERY issue of a newsletter that I published long ago called Mad Merc’s Gaming Gazette. These newsletter contain lots of RPG goodness and are a glimpse back into the early days of Hero. Watch for these to start appearing on this blog soon. 😀