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"You confuse me, Tycho. For where can you start your journey but at the beginning?"

The Ominous PBEM

Teenagers From Outer Space

is a roleplaying game created by R. Talsorian Games. Written by Mike Pondsmith, the RPG is modeled after the genre of anime comedy series, and possibly one of the most interesting I have ever played. And believe me, I've played my share of dungeons-and-dragons type RPGs. You walk around, you meet evil creatures, you hack to bits evil creatures, you move on. Big deal. And then your twenty-thousandth-level character gets axed and you do it all over again.

Teenagers from Outer Space (TFOS) is nothing like this it all. In the old-model RPG, you would walk into a castle, be met by an evil skeleton guard, and kill it. In TFOS, you would walk into a castle, be madly attacked and absorbed by an alien thing that resembled jell-o, eat your way out of it, and them be met by a beautiful princess who becomes maniacally obsessed with you, and the scene ends with a giant, confusing chase that ends in a totally unpredictable conclusion. And that's just the first episode!

In TFOS, nearly anything is possible. Want to use a frog-blaster to frog-blast the vent core (hardcore Marathon Infinity players should have picked this one up)? Invent one. Want to fly to exotic alien worlds? Go. Want to stop hacking up every living thing in sight and have some fun for once? Then TFOS is for you.

The TFOS rules are pretty simple: One, you can't kill anyone, two, you have to go in something approximating turns, and three, there is a referee that controls the regular characters and makes sure you don't do anything too outlandish. And most of all, almost no dice! WHen you want to do something particularly tricky, you have to ask the referee to check on it first, but aside from that playing is just like doing things in real life - only in a universe that in no way even comes close to reality.

But, first and foremost, it's funny... and it's fun. So if you're into anime comedies, Teenagers from Outer Space (and, of course, the Ominous play-by-email) is definielty something you should try.