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Closest RPG book to you right now

Started by TheShadow, July 22, 2008, 09:06:58 AM

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Mike S.

All Flesh Must Be Eaten is the closest RPG book to me.

I am working on getting everything together for the All Flesh Game I will be running on Thursday Nights.

Tonight we are getting together for a character creation session

Nihilistic Mind

Amber DRPG and Shadow Knight, as well as a printed out version of the Houses of the Blooded Preview PDF...
Because I was doing this last night:

http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=11284
Running:
Dungeon Crawl Classics (influences: Elric vs. Mythos, Darkest Dungeon, Castlevania).
DCC In Space!
Star Wars with homemade ruleset (Roll&Keep type system).

Fritzs

Bliss Stage... about 50 centimetres on shelf above by head...
You ARE the enemy. You are not from "our ranks". You never were. You and the filth that are like you have never had any sincere interest in doing right by this hobby. You\'re here to aggrandize your own undeserved egos, and you don\'t give a fuck if you destroy gaming to do it.
-RPGPundit, ranting about my awesome self

Lee Torres

While it's a rare thing I bring games to work with me, today I did, to read on my lunch break.  Mongoose Traveller Book 0 - An Introduction to Traveller is right in front of me, and Abstract Nova's Aletheia is a foot to my left...
 

NotYourMonkey

In a stack at my left elbow is the World of Darkness (the storyteller system rulebook), Shadowrun 4em and the lil' booklet for Shadowrun 4e that comes with the GM screen.
AKA Anubis-scales.

Tom B

I have four books in a stack on the corner of my desk.  From top down:

1. Artesia: Adventures in the Known World (because I'm currently running it)
2. EABA - because I was flipping through it earlier and haven't put it back yet
3. Changeling: The Lost - because I was considering joining an online game
4. Savage Worlds - because I had been playing in a game a few weeks back
Tom B.

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"All that we say or seem is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allen Poe

Calithena

In my office I keep the three original D&D books, the first three Arduin Grimoires, maybe the Greyhawk supplement, and Gods, Demi-Gods, and Heroes. Those are the closest; the other stuff is downstairs.
Looking for your old-school fantasy roleplaying fix? Don't despair...Fight On![/I]

GameDaddy

Crusader magazine. Vol 4 Number 10. On my desk. Arrived while I was off on vacation in Southern Indiana. And yes, I did visit a totally cool pre-columbian battle site known today as Fourteen Mile, now part of the Indiana State Parks system.

There is considerable evidence some red-bearded white men came to America before Columbus. One group (maybe 2,000 + ?), settled on an overlook of the Ohio River and built a medieval castle/stronghold, along with a village and took indian wives, and traded and what-not. They managed to thoroughly piss off the Algonquin with their war-like ways and ill-manners, so much so, the natives called in their kinfolk from as far away as North Carolina, the Cherokee, and members of all the Algonquin besieged the castle, and killed or enslaved all the defenders. In the end, when the white men figured they weren't going to make it, they attempted a breakout, and the last of the defenders slipped off in boats and made down the Ohio river.

They made it as far as the Falls of the Ohio where they were ambushed by war parties as they attempted to take their boats around the falls. They made thier last stand on Sand Island, and the Indians took no warriors there prisoner, and left the bodies (several hundred).

In 1781 near the end of the Revolutionary War George Rodgers Clark was leading an expedition North to capture Detroit from the British, as he made his way across the Ohio at the Falls, he came across the red-haired bones on Sand Island. He captured some natives to ask them about this, and they told him about the great battle at fourteen mile. The natives said the battle had occurred almost 20 generations previously.

The bones and equipment were duly collected, and some say, ordered destroyed. Of the castle at fourteen mile. The blocks were stripped and used to build the first railroad bridge across the Ohio into Louisville. From there, they disappeared. The site was totally interesting, and naturally defendable, what with they steep 250 foot hills overlooking the Ohio. Very dense underbrush. Abundant game, even now, hickory nuts, blackberries, and other food sources grow wild in the area. The hills overlooking the river are treacherously steep, with easily guarded pathways up the hills. Their is eveidence of stone works remaining, and I'll be going back to have a look for more than just a couple hours between now and labor day.
Blackmoor grew from a single Castle to include, first, several adjacent Castles (with the forces of Evil lying just off the edge of the world to an entire Northern Province of the Castle and Crusade Society's Great Kingdom.

~ Dave Arneson

Spazmodeus

Greyhawk: Folk, Feuds, and Factions a couple rooms to the east.
My body is a temple of elemental evil.

The Yann Waters

Praedor is right here on the desk, next to the keyboard since I had to check a few things in the history section last night. The Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book lies slightly beyond an arm's reach. Everything else is currently on the shelves.
Previously known by the name of "GrimGent".

Mike Jones

Since I'm in my office, the only physical game book within a few hundred yards is my contributor's copy of Terra Incognita from Grey Ghost Games. I purchased a copy on my own before I realized they considered me a playtester and sent me one--so I keep it in my office since I have a spare.
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zensunni_wanderer42

"Mortal sin had to be a grievous offense, sufficient reflection, and full consent of the will. You had to WANNNNAAAAA! In fact WANNA was a sin all by itself. Thou shalt not WANNNNAAAAA!" - George Carlin

RockViper

"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)

Hubert Farnsworth

Several dozen pdfs on this computer

GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars lurks under a pile of junk about 4 foot away in the living room corner (I take far better care of my 'real' books - but unfortunately its the battered old RPGs that would have ridiculous resale values if I'd only looked after them).
 

Darran

I have four books in a pile on my desk.
HeroQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha.
A print out of the HeroQuest 2.0 pre-publication rules
Mitlanyal Vols. I & II for Tekumel.
Darran Sims
Con-Quest 2013 - http://www.con-quest.co.uk
Get Ready for Con-Quest! Saturday May the 4th \'be with you\' 2013
"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an Emergency on my part"