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RPGs that Haven't Aged Well in ways not related to System

Started by RPGPundit, July 31, 2013, 01:11:00 AM

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James Gillen

#90
August 04, 2013, 01:42:44 AM
Quote from: ggroy;676899Even more amusing is if the scattershot predictions end up becoming declared "right", in a "texas sharpshooter fallacy" manner.  :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

QuoteThe name comes from a joke about a Texan who fires some shots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the biggest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter.

I thought the phrase came from how Lee Harvey Oswald could shoot two guys with one bullet.  :D

JG
-My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
 -Christopher Hitchens
-Be very very careful with any argument that calls for hurting specific people right now in order to theoretically help abstract people later.
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James Gillen

#91
August 04, 2013, 01:43:43 AM
Quote from: Grey Wanderer;676944After I ran a few games where the pcs slowly began to understand that a lot of modern tech was developed from reverse engineering mi-go technology, they slowly stopped using cell phones, web devices etc as much as they had previously.

I should start spreading that meme in real life.

JG
-My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
 -Christopher Hitchens
-Be very very careful with any argument that calls for hurting specific people right now in order to theoretically help abstract people later.
-Daztur

James Gillen

#92
August 04, 2013, 01:47:42 AM
Quote from: Grey Wanderer;677068All D&D adventures should be populated with 80s porn stars. This way lies awesome.

Ron Jeremy
IS
Mordenkainen the Archmage
-My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
 -Christopher Hitchens
-Be very very careful with any argument that calls for hurting specific people right now in order to theoretically help abstract people later.
-Daztur

jeff37923

#93
August 04, 2013, 01:50:59 AM
Quote from: James Gillen;677086I should start spreading that meme in real life.

JG

It only works if people actually believe in Mi-Go running around the Real World.
"Meh."

TristramEvans

#94
August 04, 2013, 02:14:15 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;677090It only works if people actually believe in Mi-Go running around the Real World.

Not too far a cry from Illuminati serpentmen.

mightyuncle

#95
August 04, 2013, 02:22:34 AM
Quote from: James Gillen;677088
Ron Jeremy
IS
Mordenkainen the Archmage

Mordenkainen casts "Enlarge!"

jeff37923

#96
August 04, 2013, 02:24:52 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;677093Not too far a cry from Illuminati serpentmen.

Yeah, you got a point there. It would not be hard to shoehorn this in to one of the more crackpot conspiracy theories that demand that all of our recent technological advances come from the crashed saucer at Area 51.
"Meh."

Rincewind1

#97
August 04, 2013, 02:32:49 AM
Talk about D&D With Pornstars :D.

Funnily enough, the biggest LARP in Poland (well, second - biggest) has one of it's chief bad guys, the greatest necromancer of the setting, named after Czech Pornstar, because when they were making the setting, one of the guy sneaked that name in.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Daddy Warpig

#98
August 04, 2013, 02:52:41 AM
Quote from: pawsplay;676650In short, Torg is still awesome, but it could never be revised, it needs to be redone.

I always hoped someone would do this and, you know, save me the trouble.









:)
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"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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jeff37923

#99
August 04, 2013, 04:22:01 AM
Quote from: Daddy Warpig;677098I always hoped someone would do this and, you know, save me the trouble.


:)

Yours sounds interesting enough that I wouldn't want someone else doing it.
"Meh."

Daddy Warpig

#100
August 04, 2013, 02:58:24 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;677101Yours sounds interesting enough that I wouldn't want someone else doing it.
Thank you, very much.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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Phillip

#101
August 04, 2013, 04:19:26 PM
Quote from: James Gillen;676103The 80's: When every man had sunglasses, every woman had a perm, and EVERYBODY wore spandex.
Yeah, a lot of illustrations from that time are even more jarring than they were back in the day.
And we are here as on a darkling plain  ~ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ~ Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Phillip

#102
August 04, 2013, 04:24:35 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;676153Most of the classic cyberpunk games just suffer from some dated style and pop culture elements, as well of course as the dated computer tech...
GDW's Dark Conspiracy at least had a rationale for its "retro future."
And we are here as on a darkling plain  ~ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ~ Where ignorant armies clash by night.

James Gillen

#103
August 05, 2013, 01:45:57 AM
Quote from: Phillip;677212Yeah, a lot of illustrations from that time are even more jarring than they were back in the day.

I seem to recall that CYBORG COMMANDO had shades.

JG
-My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
 -Christopher Hitchens
-Be very very careful with any argument that calls for hurting specific people right now in order to theoretically help abstract people later.
-Daztur

everloss

#104
August 05, 2013, 03:00:34 AM
Ninjas and Superspies. Everything about it is dated. The artwork, the language used, the skills, the equipment... everything. Last time we played N&SS the GM got an earful because we players were told, "It's modern day," and he did absolutely nothing to change it to make it modern. So while one character had a laptop, a satellite card for it consisted of a giant dish, and 50 pounds of other equipment, instead of the 1 ounce piece of plastic and silicon sticking out of the guy's laptop in real life, as we were playing.

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