Gamma World (1978)
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First edition Gamma World rulebook
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Can you survive in a world gone mad? A world where civilization as we know
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Independent Publishers Union...?!?
ReplyDeleteI would understand a Independents publishers Guild? But union is weird choice of words as it is mostly applied to organized labor.
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