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But seriously, I remember a GURPS thread existing, but I'm also pretty sure it's sunk to the bottom of the forum at best because the GURPS community on SA isn't very chatty.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3955634 Found it on the third page of my bookmarks. No idea where it is on the forums.
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Last posted Dec 2021. You're welcome to reboot that thread if someone wants to, but it's also fine to resurrect it!
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To honor SJG, you have to post in the Munchkin thread 10 times for every post in the GURPS thread
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I would no poo poo be really into an insane Book of Enoch/Noah RPG. Does that already exist? For that matter, are there any good games set in bronze age mesopotamia? I've always been interested in that part of history. It seems like you could throw some fantasy bullshit in there and have a pretty neat setting.
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Cool Dad posted:I would no poo poo be really into an insane Book of Enoch/Noah RPG. Does that already exist? Runequest says hi.
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Cool Dad posted:I would no poo poo be really into an insane Book of Enoch/Noah RPG. Does that already exist? https://joshuaacnewman.itch.io/the-bloody-handed-name-of-bronze
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Cool Dad posted:I would no poo poo be really into an insane Book of Enoch/Noah RPG. Does that already exist? Hillfolk? Technically set a little west of mesopotamia, but close enough.
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I do wonder if that was what Pratchett was referencing with the Plague of Frog in Pyramids. It was just one frog, but it was a big one and got into the vents. Also saw a meme recently about how it might have just been one regular sized frog but an utter menace, just going full Untitled Frog Game on the entirety of ancient Egypt.
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SimonChris posted:My favorite midrash is the idea that the Plague of Frogs was actually a single gigantic frog, which may or may not have summoned smaller frogs later, depending on who you ask. This is because the Torah initially uses the singular for frog, so the only logical conclusion is that God sent Frogzilla to plague Egypt. Isn't there also a midrash that says "a plague of frog that sat upon the land"?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Runequest says hi. That's more of the best kind of fantasy bullshit with some Bronze Age thrown in, but yes, just play in Glorantha.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do wonder if that was what Pratchett was referencing with the Plague of Frog in Pyramids. It was just one frog, but it was a big one and got into the vents. Almost definitely.
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My Lovely Horse posted:A game in Bible Age with Jesus around can't be very different functionally from playing Forgotten Realms Ars Magica but prophets and disciples.
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It was just one frog but also his twin brother, a bear.
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And one very hungry locust.
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That bear only cares about ONE THING and it's drat KIDS who make FUN of BALD MEN
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Random thought of the day: Which rpg has the best/most fun Necromancer to play?
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Not making claims but I've always liked the spirit of 13th Age's Necromancer doing better with low Constitution cause it was a nice variation on how the D&D ability score setup usually goes.
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ActingPower posted:And one very hungry locust. Deskaris from pathfinder
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MonsieurChoc posted:Random thought of the day: Which rpg has the best/most fun Necromancer to play? That would be Strike!: Tactical Combat and Heedless Adventure, OP.
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I haven't playtested it but yeah, the Strike one looks great. I like that the Necromancer class is also the Batman class.
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Halloween Jack posted:I haven't playtested it but yeah, the Strike one looks great. I like that the Necromancer class is also the Batman class. Certainly is a good end-run around never killing.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Random thought of the day: Which rpg has the best/most fun Necromancer to play? At the expense of everyone else at the table and your sanity as you do all the necessary math, 3.5 is extremely good at letting you build a necromancer with a customized army of undead.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Random thought of the day: Which rpg has the best/most fun Necromancer to play? (I’ve actually played one, even by 3.0 standards it wasn’t very good  )
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Xiahou Dun posted:Certainly is a good end-run around never killing. “Nobody dies. Nobody’s ALLOWED to die…”
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As I continue my Shadowrun collection, I keep getting a little bummed that Nigel Findley died so young. He was my favorite Shadowrun writer, no one could write people jandering like that dude.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:As I continue my Shadowrun collection, I keep getting a little bummed that Nigel Findley died so young. He was my favorite Shadowrun writer, no one could write people jandering like that dude. Right? If you don't have it and can find it, do check out his side of Universal Brotherhood module. He wrote the fluff part and was apparently really hip to how awful Scientology was before a lot of people.
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He was one of the best writers in RPGs. He made settings like Mage and Shadowrun easy to get into with his old school Raymond Chandler style.
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It warms my heart to see Nigel Findley love.
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Oh hell yeah, Nigel was the best, and he died tragically young. He was also a fuckin machine, he wrote so much stuff, like DnD adventures, a ton of 2nd ed stuff like Spelljammer books. I love all his Shadowrun stuff, but my absolute favorite game book he wrote was GURPS Illuminati. It's just chock full of interesting conspiracy theory poo poo, like secret conspiracies were really his trademark, there were so many of them in his books.
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Nigel wrote the original Draconomicon for the FR which is a drat good book, even if it's a bit off in places with its use of Fake Fantasy Latin.
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I remember 2XS being a pretty good Shadowrun novel. Think it tied into the Universal Brotherhood stuff?
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Angrymog posted:I remember 2XS being a pretty good Shadowrun novel. Think it tied into the Universal Brotherhood stuff? Yeah, though the sequel, House of the Sun is one the best (if not the best) Shadowrun novels. Bucnasti posted:
There's a bit in House of the Sun where the main character is in the office of some loonie, I think the Atlantean Foundation? And is looking at paintings of dolphins and pyramids and stuff and just getting very confused, it was very funny. Edit: I looked it up-  And it's apparently referring to the actual artist, Andrew Annenberg, which I hadn't thought to ever look up before:  And then dolphins, pyramids, illuminatus!, etc. Vulpes Vulpes fucked around with this message at 13:32 on May 16, 2023 |
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I like that he maintained a sense of plausibility in his stories vis a vis the conspiracy stuff. Like in 2XS, if I remember right, the Universal Brotherhood is brainwashing people with this extremely intense new kind of BTL (virtual reality drug). Detective Dirk gets a meeting with a corporate executive who seems to be connected to it. And the executive is like "I'm here to make money, and this stuff doesn't make money because it kills people too fast. Something else is going on."
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My kingdom for a "Nigel Findley has a Posse" gang tag Edit: Now that I'm remembering, Dirk Montgomery also verbatim told Harlequin to get the gently caress out of here, which makes him Shadowrun's ultra-chad. Vulpes Vulpes fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 16, 2023 |
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Angrymog posted:I remember 2XS being a pretty good Shadowrun novel. Think it tied into the Universal Brotherhood stuff? It did. 2XS is also one of the best game tie-in novels ever. Findley was amazing.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It did. 2XS is also one of the best game tie-in novels ever. Findley was amazing. Yeah, as somebody who has read far too many Shadowrun novels Findley was the only one who was able to mix likable characters with actually knowing how the world works. Other novels either did one or the other and far too many couldn't either.
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I found my old MonsterPocalypse figures and it's a real shame they messed up with that game, because the minis are really cool! I love the buildings. I was thinking of clearing them out but I'll have to find a use for them one day.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, as somebody who has read far too many Shadowrun novels Findley was the only one who was able to mix likable characters with actually knowing how the world works. Other novels either did one or the other and far too many couldn't either. I liked Black Madonna too. And whilst the Secrets of Power trilogy was cheesy as anything, it was a fun read.
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