I think there was one called "orbit" by psychobilly games that I've heard of but never could get.

Premise: An advanced peaceful civillization has a practice of sending younger members out of a 4 year "wanderschen" into the uncivilized fringes to weed out the unfit and encourage the naturally rebellious to remain in the fringes. You are essentially a teenager from a federation type culture given a small stipend and expected to survive 4 years on the frontier as a rite of passage.

As one politician put it, it's a chance for the kids to spend 4 years " Getting screwed, blewed and tattooed!" before settling down into the stratified, regimented life in the civilized federation.

Quote from: Cylonophile;404287I think there was one called "orbit" by psychobilly games that I've heard of but never could get.

Premise: An advanced peaceful civillization has a practice of sending younger members out of a 4 year "wanderschen" into the uncivilized fringes to weed out the unfit and encourage the naturally rebellious to remain in the fringes. You are essentially a teenager from a federation type culture given a small stipend and expected to survive 4 years on the frontier as a rite of passage.

As one politician put it, it's a chance for the kids to spend 4 years " Getting screwed, blewed and tattooed!" before settling down into the stratified, regimented life in the civilized federation.

Interesting, kinda extended Rumspringa rpg?

Quote from: Cylonophile;404287I think there was one called "orbit" by psychobilly games that I've heard of but never could get.

I vaguely remember hearing about that game... sounded like an interesting concept. I'd be curious to see what all it had going for it to separate it from something like Traveller... how much of a setting they worked up for it and how it pushed the theme.

Well, hold you nose and click on this for the "Asshole's basement" review:http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10058.phtml

Qin.

I actually had it then sold it.

Now I regret it.

One of the best rpg's ever written. A gorgeous book with an excellent system.

Magic is not as stylish or atmospheric (or complicated and poorly explained) as WotG, but i would pay money (if i had any) to own the rights to that system!

Quote from: Cylonophile;404305Well, hold you nose and click on this for the "Asshole's basement" review:http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10058.phtml

Thanks so much for this link...great review. Nice he passed on the basic system as well. Seems totaly cool!

Quote from: Simlasa;402405This reminded me Jason... long ago I promised you my copy of Witch Hunt but then couldn't find it... but it popped to the surface just the other day.
I've sent you a PM about it.

Just got it in the mail... thanks!

Check your own PM box.

I finally have a copy of TORG.

 Now I owe one of you guys three or four GURPS 3/e books.

May or not get that sent before the funeral I have to go to this weekend.


- Ed C.

...and THANK YOU! - you know who you are.

A big score for me would an original version of En Garde! (1975), or even the 'Revised Edition' published in 1977.

Oh, another one just came to mind: Space Marine.

My name is Paul and while I am new to the forums, I have played RPGs since Melee and Wizard first came out. I migrated to Advanced M and W, then to BD&D, AD&D, C&S and its variants, winding up finally with Rolemaster/Spacemaster/MERP. During those years, I picked up OD&D, Adv. in Fantasy, RQ, CoC, Stormbringer, T&T, Arduin Grimoire (Vol. 1 - 3), Metamorphosis Alpha, Gamma World, Morrow Project, Space Opera, Traveller/MegaTraveller, Aftermath, Bushido, DragonQuest, Star Patrol, and several dozen more lesser known RPGs. I also had a large collection of Dragon, Dungeon, Spacegamer, Different Worlds, and several other RPG magazine collections.

Hurricane Katrina wiped out my collection, but I was able to save the PDFs I had a friend create. Unfortunately, he did not have a chance to finish turning all the games to PDFs. He was able to get some of C&S, all of RM/SM, and a fair amount of the other core rule books saved.

Over the last 5 years, I have been able to recreate most of C&S hardcopy (1st - 4th ed.), minus Arden, Saurians, and Land of the Rising Sun (Probably the 3 I miss the most out of ), RM and MERP, portions of AD&D, Traveller, and a few others. EBay and Amazon have been my primary replacement sources.

Some of my things are still PDF only as I have not been able to find affordable copies, or can't find hardcopies at all.

Quote from: Akrasia;404135If you are still curious about Shadow World, this new introductory book might be worth checking out.

I still enjoy mining Amthor's SW modules for ideas to this day.  However, I doubt that I will ever run a Shadow World campaign.

I used parts of SW for my RM/MERP/C&S/Other mix when I GMed. I agree it was hit or miss in terms of quality.

Welcome to the place, kring1bc!

Sorry to hear about your collection being wiped out by Katrina.  That must have been rough.

Nobilis, damn it.

Hello Paul and welcome.

Fellow C&S and TFT fan here. I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your collection. I lost some of my stuff as well during Katrina, I've been slowly rebuilding. I'll keep an eye out for those titles on the off chance I see one.