Alma Mater is a role-playing game published by Oracle Games in 1982.
Contents
Description
Alma Mater is a humorous and anarchic system of role-playing high school students. Character classes include types like Brain, Cheerleader, Criminal, Jock, and Loser; other sections cover social rules, chemistry (explosives, etc.), alcohol and drugs, combat, and a section on academics. The rules cover witches and magic, magistrates and the law, the town crier, life in 1692, etc. The game includes an introductory scenario.
Publication history
Alma Mater was designed by Steve Davis and Andrew Warden, with art by Erol Otus, and published by Oracle Games in 1982 as a 48-page book with a color poster.
Reception
Lawrence Schick comments that "The illustrations (by the notorious Erol Otus) are in such poor taste that the game was actually banned at GenCon!"