Kickstarting a new edition of Steve Jackson's long-lost masterpiece "Melee"

Ah, this was my gateway drug back in 1979. I was a Boy Scout then, and one of the elder boys had this at summer camp. I had not heard of Dungeons and Dragons, or of role playing games. The next year, we moved, and I discovered a little store that sold all of these unique and quirky games, and I was hooked. Even though my mom did toss it all into the trash once because she blamed it for my bad grades, I never stopped loving RPG’s.

Oh yeah, and I remember the quirk of encumbrance, that one naked guy was able to win most times because the other boys would overdo it on armour.

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