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'''''The Spawn of Fashan''''' was a tabletop role-playing game created by [[Kirby Lee Davis]] in |
'''''The Spawn of Fashan''''' was a tabletop role-playing game created by [[Kirby Lee Davis]] in 1981. Only about a dozen copies sold, and the game would've vanished into obscurity had not [[Dragon (magazine)|''Dragon'' magazine]] decided to publish a review of it in their April Fool's issue for 1982. The reviewer [[Poe's Law|''could not tell'' if the game was supposed to be serious or not]], and decided it was a parody because a serious, real game could not ''possibly'' be that bad.<ref>He was wrong. [[The Comically Serious|Davis]] made it clear years later that it was the real thing.</ref> |
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The game's name appeared many times in the classic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510055816/http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html "Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins" list] as being the favorite game system for [[The Loonie]]. There's a ''reason'' for this. |
The game's name appeared many times in the classic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510055816/http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html "Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins" list] as being the favorite game system for [[The Loonie]]. There's a ''reason'' for this. |