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"This is boring. We don't know any Chad." —Andy Travis, WKRP in Cincinnati

Since many of you don't know Chad—chadu, that is—or care about the cutting edge of RPG design, I will spice up the following post with quotes from the classic Chad & Buffy episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. I also promise to mention Raistlin, Jack Chick, and githyanki.

We played Chad's new game, Dead Inside, to considerable acclaim last night. I must admit to some trepidation going in. The concept—Dead Inside, the game where you're a soulless husk!—did not really grab me, but I do like Chad, and I like his Pyramid columns and his Unknown Armies writing a lot, so I was curious to try it. (This raises an interesting question: how much love do you owe a game whose designer you've never met but who is on your LJ friends list? It's like Cory Doctorow said about new technologies that create awkward social situations.) But the situation turns out to be not so awkward after all, because I was very pleasantly surprised by Dead Inside. It's a really good, solid game. It may not be the game for me, but Chad's definitely got something here.

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