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Autonomous Monster posted:There was a time when I desperately, desperately wanted to get into that weirdo Hecatomb game Wizards came out with. There was a little scene around where I live. I liked that game quite a bit. I actually have a couple of pieces of original Ben Templesmith art from the game.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I looked at Mythos too- it looked like a really cool game, but the boxes are going for too much to indulge my curiosity these days. I look every six months or so, and it's always too much.
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 New blogpost is up for Let Thrones BewareToday's topic: Appendix N Again - This Time: Roleplaying Games That Made A Mark This week, we return to our discussion of Let Thrones Beware's Appendix N; a review of some of the inspirations that have helped make Let Thrones Beware the game it is today. This week, we're looking at two roleplaying games that helped to shape development. Appendix N Again - This Time: Roleplaying Games That Made A Mark
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Drone posted:I only ever got a few games of the Star Trek CCG in, but I remember it being pretty cool. At least it seemed cool to a 10 year old Trek nerd. It was interesting-ish, for the time, since one of the ways you could win was by having the right crew with the right skills to send on away team missions at various locations. It was completely unbalanced and the skill list became a mess after the first expansion, and those of us that spent way too much money getting named bridge crew and ships could stomp the poo poo out of anyone who didn't, but, eh, the 90's. I used to have a mostly-complete set of the entire first through I think third expansions. I hardly played it at all after middle school. I donated all but the TNG bridge crew and Enterprise D to Cardhalla at GenCon 2005. One of the pictures on the GenCon Wikipedia page looks like it comes from when I did that, because there's so much goddamn dark blue from the backs of the cards. I still have my mostly-complete set of the old Dune TCG + first expansion. That game was also kind of neat, but again it had some very 90's loopholes where you could just combine certain cards together and completely stomp the poo poo out of someone who wasn't lucky/rich enough to have a reliable counter. quote:Battletech looked cool too, though I never got a chance to try it out. My LGS never carried this for some reason, so me and my friends used the information from a rulebook in a starter deck someone got from somewhere, and then recreated all the cards in MS Word thanks to an issue of InQuest that condensed all the on-card rules text, printing that poo poo off and trying to play it like that. It was terrible and I don't blame the game.
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Autonomous Monster posted:There was a time when I desperately, desperately wanted to get into that weirdo Hecatomb game Wizards came out with. I played a game of that once at a convention, I mainly remember thinking that the hexaganol cards gimmick was really dumb
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Loving the new thread title. It reminds me I have to go through my library and cross out all the fnords.
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dwarf74 posted:Loving the new thread title. It reminds me I have to go through my library and cross out all the fnords.
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FMguru posted:Cross out all the what? There seems to be a word missing at the end of your sentence.
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It’s the G.I. Joe TCG for me. A FLGS owner even game me a promo standee because I was the only person who bought the cards.
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Autonomous Monster posted:There was a time when I desperately, desperately wanted to get into that weirdo Hecatomb game Wizards came out with. Hecatomb was just watered down magic, my group didn't like it very much.
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Moriatti posted:Hecatomb was just watered down magic, my group didn't like it very much. Wasn’t it also designed by the Synnibarr guy?
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hyphz posted:Wasn’t it also designed by the Synnibarr guy? Not according to a cursory wiki search. Synibarr seems to be a cool setting idea with a bad system? Hecatomb was a cool system idea with a bland as gently caress setting. Also it didn't have anything beyond it's system idea (fuse monsters) so it kinda died.
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Moriatti posted:Not according to a cursory wiki search. By my knowledge, it's more a "vast, overwhelming product of an extended fugue state" than an "idea"
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Autonomous Monster posted:There was a time when I desperately, desperately wanted to get into that weirdo Hecatomb game Wizards came out with. They sent out a bunch to us in Afghanistan my first deployment. I don't think anyone ever played, but I had a couple of boxes waiting in my hut when I got there.
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Elfgames posted:did it play like the tcg video game? Surprisingly, no. iirc it was designed to be played in groups (I can't remember how large though) and there were separate Training and Battling phases where you raised monsters and then fought them in round robin tournaments with the ultimate goal being to win 3 Star Chips. As you can see from a monster card it basically had zero resembalence to the GBC and (the significantly better) PSX game. 
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Countblanc posted:Surprisingly, no. iirc it was designed to be played in groups (I can't remember how large though) and there were separate Training and Battling phases where you raised monsters and then fought them in round robin tournaments with the ultimate goal being to win 3 Star Chips. As you can see from a monster card it basically had zero resembalence to the GBC and (the significantly better) PSX game. oh poo poo that's awful the psx game was rad i am sad now
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Yeah, the japanese battle card game, whilst not feeling close to the video games, at least was simple, fun and had a decent mana system. The US cards are all Jabberwoky to me.
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Moriatti posted:Synibarr seems to be a cool setting idea with a bad system? DigitalRaven posted:I look every six months or so, and it's always too much. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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Yea, Synnibar starts with a fair premise and then throws in diseases that make you catch fire and bears with laser eyes (who may or may not be quantum)
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Oh shame, because Terraformed Mars but then that stuff is lost and earth may also be lost seems pretty rad. I guess Trigun still exist though!
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Synnibarr is really high-grade dumb nonsense (I highly recommend the Adventurer's Guide, which is full of bizarre fluff, like the fact that all the weed in the world is grown by a single tribe of cougar-centaurs on an isolated plateau) but it's dumb nonsense all the way down.
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Is there an example of a wargame, ala Infinity, that has a narrative element that has ended? Not like, line cancelled, game shuttered. But the Devs go "this was the story we wanted to tell, no more fluff updates." I understand that in the case of a still living and hugely popular game that's unlikely. But beyond that.
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Cassa posted:Is there an example of a wargame, ala Infinity, that has a narrative element that has ended? Warhammer Fantasy 
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Has anyone else developed a fascination with weird artifacts of the 90s CCG boom? I've been buying up On the Edge booster boxes and it has really brought me back to those halcyon days where there were new CCGs coming out based on whatever license was around, and of course they were all featured in InQuest (also I think Over the Edge was a super great RPG). I'd love to grab some Arcadia boxes, but those are pretty dear these days. Technically it's from the oughts, but related to the 90s CCG era: I once found a bunch of cheap booster boxes for a defunct game called Wars which was an attempt to revise the mechanics from the Star Wars CCG and separate them from their volatile IP. Booster drafted until we ran out of packs--it was pretty fun. The mechanics for both games resulted in a fluid tactile gameplay since life and mana and deck and drawing were all linked in a way that meant you were always moving cards from one pile to another. I remember Star Wars CCG feeling grossly pay to win as a kid, though that may have been because nobody booster drafted Star Wars at my LGS vs Magic which had plenty of means for a young piL to acquire and trade cards. I used to always be on the lookout for clearance boxes of failed games in bargain bins (CCGs or RPGs) to try and squeeze out a few sessions of love before the gaming group moved to the next pretty thing.
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Yeah, I always had a harder time with RPGs because of the rules and emotional investments, but that sounds like a real good time.
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Plutonis posted:
This is either the unluckiest dude OR the perfect-est troll. Either way, I'm laughing.
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I wanted to play a licensed setting, but couldn't decide on which one so I just farted out a setting where you can play in all of them at once. It's probably crap, but you can give it a look if you're interested.
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Finally the RPO of tabletop rpgs are here.
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Plutonis posted:Finally the RPO of tabletop rpgs are here. What's RPO?
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Covok posted:What's RPO? The book and recent film adaptation "Ready Player One" which is famous for haphazardly including superficial and gratuitous cameos of many different "geek" media.
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Covok posted:What's RPO? Porn for the nerd equivalent of the guy who can't get over his senior year. (Seriously, how do you have 300 pages of eighties nostalgia and not even loving mention punk rock?)
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Zurui posted:Porn for the nerd equivalent of the guy who can't get over his senior year. the guy who wrote Ready Player One never hosed
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Zurui posted:Porn for the nerd equivalent of the guy who can't get over his senior year. The charitable reading: the gaps in RPO's nostalgia represent the gaps in the interests of the dead billionaire nerd dude who started the contest that drives the plot The uncharitable reading: Ernest Cline can't possibly conceive of anyone caring about media that he didn't Anyway, the setting idea mostly makes me think of freeform roleplaying in the 2000's-Livejournal mode, where making original characters was discouraged and basically every game setting was "a bunch of canon characters are trapped in a city/house/summer camp/desert island/spooky Tang jar for ~reasons~, dumb make-outs and fights ensue." This isn't necessarily a bad thing, if you actually want to play that kind of cheerful megacrossover dumbness.
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Bongo Bill posted:The book and recent film adaptation "Ready Player One" which is famous for haphazardly including superficial and gratuitous cameos of many different "geek" media. Zurui posted:Porn for the nerd equivalent of the guy who can't get over his senior year.  I can't believe I made Ready Player One for TTRPG.Nah, though, I just couldn't decided to do something with Marvel or DC for my next superhero game so I thought "why not both? And do anime too!" Though, I guess I could just set it on Earth-7642 which is where Marvel and DC set all their crossovers. But, then, no anime. Or could there be? Guy Goodbody posted:the guy who wrote Ready Player One never hosed  Bonus that reminded me I should get caught up on SU now that I am no longer chained to a desk doing tax returns:  Antivehicular posted:The charitable reading: the gaps in RPO's nostalgia represent the gaps in the interests of the dead billionaire nerd dude who started the contest that drives the plot You know, I strangely got flashbacks to Black Hammer when you said that. Black Hammer is this awesome comic by Jeff Lemire where a bunch of pastiches of superheroes find themselves trapped in a midwestern town without the ability to leave and must blend in and the story is an amazing love letter/deconstruction of the history of American comics. Totally unrelated, but it's good and I couldn't put the tradebacks down the day I bought them till I read them all so I highly recommend them. Anyway, that wasn't the original intention, but that could actually be kind of awesome. And, you can play original characters. There are "billions of self-inserts." Covok fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Apr 20, 2018 |
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It's also worth mentioning that Ernst Cline - and his books - are racist as gently caress.
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ProfessorCirno posted:It's also worth mentioning that Ernst Cline - and his books - are racist as gently caress. Okay I gotta know more.
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Zurui posted:Okay I gotta know more. There's not much to tell, his constant masturbatory nerd fantasies just never quite seem to involve people of color or any of the things they make - except for two Japanese people who are samurai and comment on how honorable and distinguished the main character is. It's not just "a nerd who can't get over their nerd vision of the 80's," it's that this vision is literally just white dudes and the things they personally made, and nothing else.
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ProfessorCirno posted:It's also worth mentioning that Ernst Cline - and his books - are racist as gently caress. And transphobic and in general loving creepy as hell.
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