In the spirit of looking at the various PVP games that turned up for
tabletop in the early to mid eighties, we now turn to take a look at one of the
more involved PVP games that involved two people wandering around a dungeon at
the same time trying to hunt each other down.
One of these was the White Warlord, the other the Black Baron.
The game could be played with one book as a solo game if you wanted,
but it excelled when you had both books and could go hunting each other
down. In the same way that Lost Worlds
was the closest thing you got to having a beat em up on the table, so this was
the forerunner to chasing people around a maze and shooting at them.
It wasn’t as easy as lost worlds, and there was a lot to bear in mind
when it came to wandering around the maze, but it provided a well thought out
tactical exercise in chasing people around.
It didn’t get the same level of interest as the Lone Wolf series as it was
literally a means to chase someone down and smack them, so the level of story
that was presented was far inferior to that found in the LW books.
Not that this wasn’t something interesting to play, just that it had
limited appeal as a result of the lack of story presented, and it begs the question
of whether or not something like that would work these days with the various console
games that are out there now.
