The Ogre Book

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Summary: Best bang for the buck in wargaming
Review: SJ Games has done gamers a favor by republishing the OGRE line. If you stick to the paper games, you can pick up the whole lineup for about ..., including this book. Basically, it is a collection of short fiction, strategy, and variant articles for use with OGRE. It will enhance your play of the classic futuristic war game and set your brain ticking about making up your own counters, rules, and maps. In no time at all you will be hunched over MS Paint on your home PC, asking your wife, "which shade of brown looks more deserty?"

Rating:
Summary: Best bang for the buck in wargaming
Review: SJ Games has done gamers a favor by republishing the OGRE line. If you stick to the paper games, you can pick up the whole lineup for about ..., including this book. Basically, it is a collection of short fiction, strategy, and variant articles for use with OGRE. It will enhance your play of the classic futuristic war game and set your brain ticking about making up your own counters, rules, and maps. In no time at all you will be hunched over MS Paint on your home PC, asking your wife, "which shade of brown looks more deserty?"

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Summary: Both a Look Back, and a Look Forward
Review: This is The Ogre Book, Second Edition. Back in 1982 the original Ogre Book was billed as the first book ever written. The Second Edition allows more articles to be written in the same vein and quality as the original book. It allows Steve Jackson to revisit the older articles and reflect how 20 years of history and gaming have changed his original perspective - if at all. The orignal articles, when needed, have been updated both to the current rules set and the currently developed Ogre Timeline. Finally, and rather importantly, it brings back into print the original articles that have become classics in Ogre literature. It gives me chills to read "The Four Howizter Defense" one more time.

Do you get this book if you have the original "Ogre Book?" Yes. The additional material and the modifications to the articles are worth the price. Steve's historical comentary is also reasonably good. It's a great book. Why "only" four stars? Well, Steve, you could have made the book's binding a bit better, at least on mine.