[Adm.Lee]

1. Yes, you can use "Big Bob's House of Boom." There are already stores in Miami and Las Vegas, but somewhere in the Pacific should have one, too! See my agent for franchise opportunities! Come join the finest team in wholesale firearms and mercenary contracting!

2. I never saw or remembered "Tales of the Gold Monkey" in the '80s, my wife had, and she got us the DVDs last year. So it may have been like that to some of the players. At least two of us were heavy into Jimmy Buffett at that time, so that was more what I visualized-- especially the song "Jamaica mistaika." The two bad guy characters in his novel Where is Joe Merchant appeared, and I may have used parts of that plot, too. I had two opportunities to visit Grand Cayman then, too, so I had Caribbean sand in my brain.

3. Explosions, wounds, repetitive actions and ambushes: all done by me, but sometimes the PCs are the ones doing the ambushing, and that's just not pretty for the bad guys. It was all part of the v2 learning curve.

4. Sangria and Recon: I only had the Vietnam and Israeli books for that game, was that a good campaign?

I do know that I had about 2 dozen issues of Challenge back then, and I used a few of the scenarios in there. The only one I can remember was the hijacking of the uranium. The players were not happy to find that they'd done a nasty for the bad guys.

I also remember doing a few missions in the Biafran war. No one saw Roland, though.