Quote from: KrakaJak;362500Ummmm, I cannot describe it. Suffice to say, if the passage above intrigued you there is  plenty more where it came from.

It's kind of like timecube, the rpg.

Here's an example of the 'system':

I was being sarcastic. Or perhaps ironic.

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;362629I was being sarcastic. Or perhaps ironic.

If you are American, you can't be ironic. It's not allowed.

-clash

That's only true for baby boomers. Everyone else is allowed.

Quote from: Aos;362635That's only true for baby boomers. Everyone else is allowed.

You mean there are non-boomers? Since when???

I make my save to disbelieve!

-clash

Can't compete with "foom" but worse written roleplaying game I ever bought was called "Taiga". It was a miserable Finnish post-apocalyptic game set in Russia. The tone keep slipping from a overwrought dramatic to an awkward over colloquial mode. What made it worse is the author seemed way too keen on the notion that rape was common place (in the interest of realism, of course). Nasty piece of work I regert wasting money on.  


Still, "foom"?

Quote from: flyingmice;362630If you are American, you can't be ironic. It's not allowed.

-clash

I am American. North American, in fact. Canadian, in specific.

However, it is true that the delusional nation known as the United States cannot do irony, sarcasm or dry wit.

Quote from: Warthur;362511The appalling mess which is Weapons of the Gods has eclipsed it for me. In comparison Nobilis is a true paragon of clarity and organisation.

I didn't know anyone actually read Weapons of the Gods.  I remember it solely as a RPG.NET darling for a few weeks then never heard anything about it again.

To be honest, I'm really picky about the games I buy, so I can't think of any that qualify on the level of seriously bad the shit quoted here is.

Decipher LOTR was unbelievable dull to read, and WFRP2 seemed to have been written without any assumption the reader would actually play the game, but I can't think of anything quite as overtly bad.

Cartoon Action Hour's pack-in campaign was pretty horrible, but one could argue that's deliberate, since the genre the game's about is universally atrocious as well.

A lot of the manuals from old hexmap wargames I've tried to play are pretty bad.  Most are written with all the clarity of a federal tax law.

Quote from: Soylent Green;362662post-apocalyptic [...] set in Russia

Isn't that redundant?

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;362667Canadian.

What's that?

Quote from: J Arcane;362693A lot of the manuals from old hexmap wargames I've tried to play are pretty bad.  Most are written with all the clarity of a federal tax law.

I love reading those! I really hated it when TSR took over a bunch of in-development SPI games and released them with rules written in a breezy, conversational style.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;362710What's that?

From the Republic of Alpha Centauri?  

Quote from: J Arcane;362693A lot of the manuals from old hexmap wargames I've tried to play are pretty bad.  Most are written with all the clarity of a federal tax law.

The first edition of DragonQuest reads like that.

It reads like a wargame writer trying to design a fantasy rpg.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;362710What's that?

Just remember: It's always the quiet ones...

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;362667I am American. North American, in fact. Canadian, in specific.

However, it is true that the delusional nation known as the United States cannot do irony, sarcasm or dry wit.

Federal Statute, my friend, illegal in all 50 states. Can't blame Bush for this, though, as Carter signed it into law. He was a bit of a prude, what with lusting in his heart instead of in the Oval Office like Clinton, and thought too much levity was unseemly during the moral equivalent of war. That, of course, is why Monte Python became so popular at that time. They didn't stop imports! But after a while, the irony and dry wit muscles atrophied in us. now no one cares. Sarcasm - unlike what you assumed above - was never illegal. Everyday conversation here fairly drips with sarcasm, in New York City especially. It is the only form of humor left to us, after all. Well, except for puns.

So, you're a Canadian, eh? How are things in Canadia?

-clash