Dragon Pass: Monsters and Angels

When I was about 8 years old I found an old book at a book sale called "What is Dungeons and Dragons". It described some bizarre sort of game where the players wandered about being minor heroes in some Tolkeinesque fantasy world, which sounded like it might be fun. But right at the back of the book was the passing mention of something that sounded even better - a game where the players got to be god-like rulers over tribes of bizarre and frightful creatures such as sentient pumpkins,  mutated bats and talking duck warriors. As a result of that book I ended up playing D&D - it was my introduction to hobby games. But what I really wanted to play was that other game. That other game was Dragon Pass.