Over The Edge

A buddy of mine, Bill Gerber, once tried to entice me into playing the RPG "Over The Edge."

I was mainly interested because everyone else was already making a character when I got to The Union.

Despite being told I could make any character I wanted, I gave up after five of my ideas were rejected.

I simply couldn't figure out what Gerb wanted me to make for a character that I wanted to play and the fastest way for me to give up on a collaboration is for the other party to have a veto when not actively helping.

He wouldn't even give any details about the setting to help me figure out a hook to make a character around.

That he was championing a "libertarian" setting with strict gun control at the same time I was particularly raw over the recent passage of the Clinton AWB did not help.  "I don't think that someone understands what 'libertarian' means," is what I said at the time.

Every once and a while I remember the setting exists and I re-read the wikipedia article on it.

This little nostalgia trip always reminds me of another esoteric setting he tried to get us interested in, The Empire of the Petal Throne, aka Tékumel.  The less said about that and MAR Barker the better, I think.  A Muslim who's anti-Semitic?  REALLY?  That's never happened before, or since...