|
I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 23, 2024 08:21 |
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas ryuutama
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:26
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Sword World.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:29
|
|
|
Glitch
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:37
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Interesting to read? Castle Falkenstein
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:49
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Exalted
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 03:58
|
|
|
Plutonis posted:Exalted
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 04:04
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Most comprehensive Glorantha book in your price range.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 04:05
|
|
|
Spellbound Kingdoms.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 04:06
|
|
|
I've been really into a new setting called Vaults of Vaarn recently, it's strongly based off of the Book of the New Sun and it's got a lot of really good post-post-post-apoc dying earth weirdness. The deluxe rulebook is very gorgeous too, but all the core rules are free zines online.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 04:13
|
|
|
Xiahou Dun posted:Most comprehensive Glorantha book in your price range.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 04:31
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Literally anything by Gareth Hanrahan.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 08:10
|
|
|
If you have a preferred genre I can suggest one
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 08:39
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Here's some fun weird OSR poo poo: Ultraviolet Grasslands Magical Industrial Revolution Veins of the Earth Dungeon Dozen Fire on the Velvet Horizon Gradient Descent Hot Springs Island
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 10:41
|
|
|
sebmojo posted:Literally anything by Gareth Hanrahan. +1 Eyes of the Stone Thief is my all-time "read through every six months daydreaming of running it one day" book.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 11:04
|
|
|
tanglewood1420 posted:+1 I spent like five years running it and it fuckin owned
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 12:57
|
|
|
sebmojo posted:Literally anything by Gareth Hanrahan.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 16:07
|
|
|
sebmojo posted:Literally anything by Gareth Hanrahan.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 19:48
|
|
|
Anyone know of a good book/resource that teaches how to play and score Bridge? I used to play over a decade ago but never learned how to score and have forgotten things like what each card’s point value is, point thresholds for bidding, etc.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 23:45
|
|
|
Megazver posted:Here's some fun weird OSR poo poo: That goes double for anything Skerples had a hand in, I’m bummed I missed the Monster Overhaul KS entirely somehow
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 01:56
|
|
|
Seconding Veins of the Earth and Fire on the Velvet Horizon in a big way. They're both great reads and also very gameable.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 06:10
|
|
|
Megazver posted:Ultraviolet Grasslands There's a second edition coming out with more art! I'll also throw out Wildsea. That's a really solid effort in terms of rules, setting fluff, and GM support material. The hardback is also an absolutely gorgeous physical artifact.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 06:20
|
|
|
mellonbread posted:His posts on the Pelgrane blog are better than most official books the company puts out.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 07:30
|
|
|
My Lovely Horse posted:I'm starting to wish they'd brought him in as a 13th Age head designer in addition to or indeed instead of Tweet He's a full-time novelist now.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 09:59
|
|
|
Thanks Everyone, Lots of suggestions for me to poke throughLeraika posted:ryuutama I already own it! Its great. I ran a short campaign for some friends and we had a town where mayorship was picked by winning a flower arranging competition Rand Brittain posted:Glitch I'm a big Jenna fan so I had that bad boy on preorder. Looking forward to N4!
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 19:15
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 19:23
|
|
|
Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 20:14
|
|
|
Nessus posted:GURPS Cabal
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 20:26
|
|
|
[Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've been getting an urge to pick up some new book. Odds are i won't ever play whatever so what books are interesting to read and/or have interesting ideas Interesting to read/interesting concepts/not necessarily good to play... Underground Year of the Phoenix Metascape Tales of Gargentihr (which I really need to do an F&F of because it is weird) edit: I just found a copy of Gargentihr on archive.org as a pdf. Time to reread some Scottish weirdness Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 20:45 on May 22, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 22, 2023 20:37
|
|
|
I'm glad I'm not the only person who dreams of running a GURPS Cabal game that isn't immediately beset by issues.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2023 12:57
|
|
|
I just got GURPS Fantasy 2 and haven't really dug into it yet, but it looks pretty nuts Definitely going on the "impossible dream GURPS campaign" pile next to Goblins
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2023 22:25
|
|
|
Antivehicular posted:I just got GURPS Fantasy 2 and haven't really dug into it yet, but it looks pretty nuts Oh god, that’s completely insane. One of Robin Laws’ first efforts. In a lot of ways the cultures outside the main Bronze Age one are at least as interesting as the theoretical focus, too.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2023 23:40
|
|
|
I love that setting, so much that when I lost the book somehow I had to get a replacement. It's just sheer, mad genius packed with such detail. My favorite example of lived-in detail that's for the GM that the PCs will never see, spoiling just in case anyone's in a campaign or whatever: There's a group of utterly bored and jaded sorcerous immortals who hang out in their impossible city all the time, because it's the one place that's safe from the gods. They once practiced three sorts of magic, all with mutually exclusive rituals: animal sacrifice, injecting themselves with crushed gems, and singing nigh-impossible notes. So one day one of the immortals published his magnum opus, an epic volume of poetry. Enterprising immortals quickly realized that key lines from the epic can be used to focus magic in a fourth form, which rapidly spreads and assures that the epic will live forever in the memory and culture of the immortals. But the author of the epic is disgusted by this degradation of his art, running it through the proverbial muck to do parlor tricks and lowering it to the level of beastly blood sacrifice or degenerate tweakers needing their gem fix. For, you see, he's a practitioner of singing magic.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 00:00
|
|
|
Antivehicular posted:I just got GURPS Fantasy 2 and haven't really dug into it yet, but it looks pretty nuts Is that the one where the gods are based on characters from Winnie-the-Pooh?
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 00:05
|
|
|
Lemniscate Blue posted:Is that the one where the gods are based on characters from Winnie-the-Pooh? Yep! I am very curious if Young Robin Laws can pull that off, but cautiously optimistic.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 00:14
|
|
|
Lemniscate Blue posted:Is that the one where the gods are based on characters from Winnie-the-Pooh? Yeah I’m afraid I’m gonna need some explanation of what’s behind that spoiler text. You can’t just leave that lying there. It’s like nerd litter.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 01:57
|
|
|
Xiahou Dun posted:Yeah I’m afraid I’m gonna need some explanation of what’s behind that spoiler text. THE GODS Bax Powu Kag (the Moose) Bett Agwo (the Hare) Bubzavav (the Bear) Dopod Abwep (the Child) Gakox Pezep (the Cougar) Kikavo Vo (Big Leaper) Kikavo Dat (Little Leaper) Vuvuti (the Owl) Zewa Zab (the Gopher) Zuutak (the Pig) The 'Moose' is Eeyore and the 'Gopher' is Rabbit
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 02:09
|
|
|
Humbug Scoolbus posted:From the table of contents... Not the Hare? Also hell yeah. loving king poo poo.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 02:12
|
|
|
It’s just amazing. The gods don’t care about people, they’re just these huge powerful mysterious beings. If you come close to Bax Powu Kag you lose your will to live because it’s so depressed.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 02:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 23, 2024 08:21 |
|
|
O thank loving god. There's and F&F of it.Reading the gently caress out of this. That's hilarious and amazing.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2023 02:36
|
|