Revenge!
A Monopoly-like fan game which involved puns, created by Jack Harness in late 1973 and published in The Cult. Harness was annoyed by kibitzers at LASFS poker games and invented the game to give them something else to do.
A very complicated game, Revenge! features properties and rent (a la Monopoly), armies and duels (a la Risk), three different kinds of cards, and a variety of hazards, safe zones, and beneficial squares on the board. Two of the card types, Imperial Intelligence and Fate, were random events vaguely similar to the Monopoly "Community Chest" and "Chance" cards, except that many of them involved puns and in-jokes; the third type, "Momentum" allowed you to move yourself or other players in lieu of rolling the dice.
According to Lee Gold, it featured planets rather than street territories, and moves were via teleports with power stations to run them. Pournelle's Point sent you down to the Black Hole if you landed on it. On three Dueling Planets you could fight Risk-style duels with armies. When you died, you reincarnated as one of five mythic characters: Vulchurella (the Torturer's Ugly Daughter), Prince Putrid (the lawful ruler, who'd been usurped), Pastor Fazool (a bribe-loving man of religion who could provide immunity from various threats), the Green Slime (who temporarily poisoned the square he was on — and the previous square he'd been on), and the Emperor, who unlike the other characters didn't move: he just rolled the dice and moved — or threatened to move — other pieces, and had to get $300 more each turn or he'd die.
It was initially played at parties at Brandyhall, the home of Lee and Barry Gold.
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