Goblin Lake is a 1979 role-playing game adventure for Tunnels & Trolls published by Flying Buffalo.
Goblin Lake is a 1979 role-playing game adventure for Tunnels & Trolls published by Flying Buffalo.
Goblin Lake is the first of Flying Buffalo's "pocket adventurers" in which the player is a goblin. [1]
Lorin Rivers reviewed Goblin Lake in The Space Gamer No. 28. [1] Rivers commented that "I had absolutely no fun. This 'adventure' is brief and not very exciting. It's a bad start for the new format. I don't recommend it." [1]
Tunnels & Trolls is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo. The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to Dungeons & Dragons and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail gameplay.
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