Quote from: Armchair Gamer;821555And Green Ronin has just announced a Kickstarter for their first AGE setting.

  Somehow, I don't think it's going to be very popular here ...

http://greenronin.com/blog/2015/03/23/

Blue Rose Returns!

Gotta convince Chris or Nicole to send a copy to Pundit.  :rotfl:

Quote from: CRKrueger;821582Blue Rose Returns!

Gotta convince Chris or Nicole to send a copy to Pundit.  :rotfl:

I would gladly receive a review copy, and would do the review with the same detail and effort I do all my reviews.

Quote from: RPGPundit;821912I would gladly receive a review copy, and would do the review with the same detail and effort I do all my reviews.

I would totally chip into a fundraiser to make that happen. C'mon therpgsite, what d'you say? Each of us throws in a few bucks to mail a copy to Pundit upon release?

Quote from: TristramEvans;821928I would totally chip into a fundraiser to make that happen. C'mon therpgsite, what d'you say? Each of us throws in a few bucks to mail a copy to Pundit upon release?

LOL. Well, I won't refuse it, if there's actually enough interest to make it happen.

Nah, I barely have money to buy games for myself much less for anyone else.

Quote from: Matt;825230Nah, I barely have money to buy games for myself much less for anyone else.

I certainly don't blame you for that.

Quote from: RPGPundit;825632I certainly don't blame you for that.

Not to say I wouldn't like to see your review were someone else to facilitate a copy manifesting itself in your mitts.

I still think Blue Rose sounds like a shitty Spider-Man villain.

Quote from: Matt;825755I still think Blue Rose sounds like a shitty Spider-Man villain.

Or a touchy-feely Chris Claremont era X-Men supporting "hero".

Or a French nemesis for The Scarlet Pimpernel...

Quote from: TristramEvans;825771Or a French nemesis for The Scarlet Pimpernel...

Given that the Pimpernel fought against the demented persecutions of revolutionaries gone mad, that would be an apt case.

Quote from: TristramEvans;825771Or a French nemesis for The Scarlet Pimpernel...

La sir, that's deuced clever of you. Sink me if I didn't come near to laughing aloud. Faith! Well done, I say. 'Pon my soul sir, well done.

Quote from: TristramEvans;825771Or a French nemesis for The Scarlet Pimpernel...

Heh, I did that in my Scarlet Pimpernel campaign.  No sooner would the League members deposit their rescuee safely in England than Le Revenant would sweep through, kidnap the poor bastard, and haul his aristo ass back to France for execution.  Got them tolerably hot under the collar ...

Quote from: thedungeondelver;821556Except I don't know of anyone who actually plays T&T or promotes it.  No, really, I'm not trying to be ugly about the matter.  Aside from some noise about the collector's tin edition and the fact that it's a perennial mention by grognards, I really don't know of any promotion, mention of it, etc.

I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, either. It's just nuts, with zip for game balance and complex maths to figure out what the heck you're doing as GM when the dice tosses actually make a difference. Ken St Andre is I gather a great storyteller who doesn't really use a rules set, but what's a beginner to do with the book then?

It works after a fashion for programmed solitaire scenarios you replay as one character after another gets killed or has a cakewalk. Some things are pretty deterministic, so you can learn from previous choices, while others are totally random.

I have taught roleplaying with all kind of games. I've had newbies in Vampire, Rolemaster, D&D, RuneQuest, Star Wars, you name it. It didn't make a difference. The importance of the system is vastly overrated.

The only thing a game needs to be great for beginners is to have an enthusiastic and helpful group, specially the GM.

Quote from: Bren;821033I'm not going to type out the examples. If you read the rules you've already read the examples. Go reread them if your memory is hazy.

The only examples of any significance are a failed attempt to subdue a red dragon (which could easily be shorter and more useful) and "Example of the Referee Moderating a Dungeon Expedition" which features both a caller and the attitude that the referee should be hostile to player success.

QuoteYeah, I suspected you were more interested in nit picking my post than you were in discussing the topic of the thread.

And in turn you have no interest in discussing the games I suggested, confirming my certainty that you were only interested in attacking me.

QuoteMy experience was that OD&D was relatively simple to learn by reading the books.

In fact, your stated opinion was "absolutely no evidence that newer games are any better at introducing new players than those dusty old games". You're running so hard from this statement that you won't even clarify which supplements you would include for OD&D.

Mostly this is a huge slap in the face of the OSR folks: perpetually failing to match OD&D despite their best efforts, decades of new ideas and all OD&D's warts: callers, 20 to 50 players per referee, typos, contradictions, etc.