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Crash Course Manual is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Paranoia published by West End Games.
Contents
[edit]Crash Course Manual is a supplement in which the Computer has crashed in the Alpha Complex.[1]
Publication history
[edit]Crash Course Manual was edited by Doug Kaufman, with a cover by Robert Larkin, and was published by West End Games in 1990 as a 96-page book.[2]
Shannon Appelcline commented that metaplots for Paranoia "kicked off with the 'Secret Society Wars' in The DOA Sector Travelogue (1989), which seemed OK, but then things took a dramatic wrong turn with Crash Course Manual (1989), which introduced MegaWhoops Alpha Complex where the Computer was gone!"[3]: 254–255
Reception
[edit]James Wallis reviewed Crash Course Manual for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 3 out of 10, and stated that "If you still play Paranoia, you'll want this, but if your copy is gathering dust on a shelf, Crash Course Manual is not a good enough reason to pick it up again."[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Wallis, James (May 1990). "Rolegames". Games International (14): 41.
- ↑ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 353. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '80s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-081-6.