Polite Dissent

Snit’s Revenge was the first Tom Wham game I ever encountered, and remains one of my favorites. This is the sequel to Snit Smashing, the game that H posted about last month. In this game, the Snits have had enough of the Bolotomi and attack en masse, sneaking inside and booting their internal organs about.

A friend of mine picked up another game of his, Awful Green Things From Outer Space, and loved it so much that he was moved to created his own “Advanced Awful Green Things: The Roleplaying Game.” Yes, he is gainfully employed nowadays — he’s actually a lawyer — why do you ask?

I subscribed to Dragon Magazine for most of junior high and high school. It was always a cause for celebration whenever a new Tom Wham game would be published. While there was always something to recommend about every game of his, my favorites were File 13 and King of the Tabletop. File 13 was a game about getting games published; the game play was very straightforward (and a little too random for my current tastes) but the humor was perfect (I’ll see if I can find the names of the games you were supposed to sell, they were hilarious). King of the Tabletop was a game where you had to marshal your resources, build your army and the wipe the other players out one by one. Looking back, it was in some ways a precursor of Magic the Gathering. Each player had certain terrain tiles and was could only form his army from creatures native to the terrain he owned. This was my gaming group’s favorite game through most of high school. Mayfair published this game later as Kings & Things*.

Two of Wham’s games are contained in the boxed set The Best of Dragon Magazine Games, which is usually available on e-Bay. Kings & Things* can be found on e-Bay quite a bit too, although usually it’s the German edition.

Links:
Tom Wham’s web site

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*This is not a footnote. Kings &Things* is the actual name of the game.

UPDATE:
Here is the list of the game pieces from File 13.