30 Games That Made Me Who I Am: 2003

There’s a fella named Jeff Vogel who’s been making indie, shoestring budget RPGs since the mid-’90s. He’s gotten kind of a bum rap lately because of his penchant for playing it way too safe — all his games are almost identical mechanically, his series tend to run for five or six games each, and he’s currently in the process of remaking his most famous series for the second time. Jeff’s an undeniably talented creator, though, a fact I became wise to the moment I played Exile III in the late ’90s. I could have written this about any of Spiderweb