The Pundit's back to talk about an old RPG that got a reprint by Precis Intermedia. It's from the gonzo days of the 1980s, so it's wild.
"M3" (as I'll call it) offers an experience that's different from Dungeons & Dragons, much like Pendragon did, in that it says it is a game of historical fiction that embraces mythical reality.
It's not. Not in the least. Even for its time, it's ahistorcal as fuck. It's on the level of Italian Sword & Sandal shlock; entertaining on a good day, but otherwise little more than using the trappings of a well-known period to dress up standard adventure plots. If you don't want to give the historically-literate anerysms, make it a flat-out fantasy using said historical period as inspiration (as Vox Day did with his Selenoth series; lots of psuedo-Rome there).
The Pundit's video is long, but worth the watch. Not all old RPGs are good, and M3 is one of the bad ones, but not unsalvagable.
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