UNDERTAKE "ENCOUNTER CRITICAL!"

In the spring of 2004, S. John Ross (Risus, Pokéthulhu, Uresia, et al)
released "Encounter Critical" - a new free RPG - onto the Web. A retro
garage-job throwback to the smallest-press RPGs of the late 1970s,
Encounter Critical was released without any indication that S. John
designed it himself ... and for nearly two years, it slipped quietly into
place as a genuine gaming-history footnote.

Today, the warm wriggly bag turns out to have contained a cat all along,
and Encounter Critical has come home to Cumberland Games & Diversions,
where "gaming from another past" will continue into a more definite future.
The game - still and forever free - is now available in a slightly spiffier
new file that gives credit where it's due, including the revelation of Cody
Reichenau and Dave Insel as the master illustrators behind much of EC's ...
let's say "remarkable" ... artwork. New support freebies available for
download include the long-lost character sheet that would have appeared in
Encounter Critical Gazette #4, and the loose Armor Table insert missing
from the previous PDF. For those in the mood for more, there's new
Encounter Critical swag available at Lulu and CafePress.

Come visit, snag some free stuff, and undertake Encounter Critical: where
your Evolved Hobling-Frankenstein Doxy Pioneer can use her Unusual Sexual
Gifts, detachable limbs, evil birthmark companion and brand-new Damnation
Van to brave a world where the Ape Sultan's sorcerers fill pits with a
substance such as crocodiles. Better still: true scientific realism on
every page!

ALSO NEW FROM CUMBERLAND: One of Cumberland's best-selling PDF titles, Lisa
Steele's "Fief," is now available in softcover print-on-demand form from Lulu!

Related Links:

Cumberland Games Homepage http://www.cumberlandgames.com
Encounter Critical Homepage http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/encounter-critical.htm
Cumberland Lulu Stuff http://www.lulu.com/cumberland
S. John Ross mini-bio http://www.io.com/~sjohn/bio.htm