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It came from the deep...discount bin.

Started by mattormeg, October 15, 2006, 06:38:19 PM

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The Yann Waters

#15
October 16, 2006, 06:33:19 AM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonBest: an obscure Scandinavian post-apocalyptic game called Taiga.
Ahem... That's one of the rare Finnish RPGs published in English.

I've picked up Engel, Sailor Moon and Ravenloft for an euro or two each.
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mattormeg

#16
October 16, 2006, 10:11:06 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceI write my own obscure games... :D

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Me, too. Sometimes.

I really want to flesh out "Guns & Gasmasks" into a retro-looking game with amateurish looking black and white drawings and a "published at the University copy shop" look to it. The rules themselves should be spare but functional. I want it to look and read like something someone ordered from the back of "Dragon" magazine 15 years ago, but not be a tongue-in-cheek like "Encounter Critical" or "Mazes & Minotaurs" (Of which I'm a fan of both).

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#17
October 16, 2006, 10:14:11 AM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonBest: an obscure Scandinavian post-apocalyptic game called Taiga.  Not a bad system and a wonderful idea mine.  Thinking about it, there's a lot of it's influence in Havens

Worst: Champions 2nd ed and a pile of sourcebooks/adventures.  I thought I could mine them for ideas.  I was wrong

Could you tell me a bit about Taiga?
I'm a post-apoc fan and haven't heard of it.

brettmb2

#18
October 16, 2006, 11:53:31 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditBut probably the rarest book out of those still in my collection now would have to be the Maelstrom RPG.

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Not exactly rare anymore, since we're selling copies from the PIG website (along with Tales from the Empire and the remainder of the Story Engine stock). We also re-released Maelstrom in PDF format. :pundit:
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Sosthenes

#19
October 16, 2006, 11:59:38 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit...Darkurthe Legends...

Dang, I completely forgot that I have that one! Did you actually play that? The combat and character generation options look rather decent...

(I think I put it right next to "Swordbearer", which had a weird mix between old-fashioned presentation and rather modern rules)
 

Hastur T. Fannon

#20
October 16, 2006, 12:46:09 PM
Quote from: mattormegCould you tell me a bit about Taiga?
I'm a post-apoc fan and haven't heard of it.

Harsh, but fair review

The apocalypse is more of a wimper than a bang.  Over-population resulting in environmental collapse and (for some reason which was explained, but the book's in storage) global climate change caused a new ice age.  One of the few habitable areas is the taiga

The feel is very much as if the Mad Max series had been set in New Zealand or Siberia instead of the Outback.  No cyberware; mutations are more of the "extra finger" or "can see well in the dark" rather than Gamma World.  If you've read Delano's 2020 Visions (damn, that article needs some beefing up), that's something else it reminds me of
 

The Yann Waters

#21
October 16, 2006, 01:12:22 PM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonHarsh, but fair review
Yup, that does sound like much of the Finnish science fiction from the eighties and the nineties... By the way, Vuorela went on to design the Praedor RPG, a game with a rather different feel to it, although that hasn't been translated into English.

(Wow, there's one factually incorrect review of Nob on that site.)
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#22
October 16, 2006, 01:56:58 PM
Quote from: pigames.netNot exactly rare anymore, since we're selling copies from the PIG website (along with Tales from the Empire and the remainder of the Story Engine stock). We also re-released Maelstrom in PDF format. :pundit:

Um, dude.. that's not the Maelstrom I'm talking about.  I'm talking about this one:



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#23
October 16, 2006, 01:59:06 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditUm, dude.. that's not the Maelstrom I'm talking about.  I'm talking about this one:
Damn. You got me there. I never heard of that thing. Is it any good?
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#24
October 16, 2006, 02:09:19 PM
There are two Maelstroms? That would explain some confusion on my part.

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#25
October 16, 2006, 03:39:37 PM
There is, apparently, some newer game from PiG that I haven't heard of, called Maelstrom.

But this is the original Maelstrom I'm talking about, the one written in the early 1980s by a 14 year old kid that ended up being published by Penguin and a major influence on the Warhammer system.

It was an historical RPG set in Elizabethan England with a cool (very innovative, for the time) magic system, very gritty atmosphere, and the best guide to herbalism I've ever seen in an RPG product.

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#26
October 16, 2006, 03:47:17 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditThere is, apparently, some newer game from PiG that I haven't heard of, called Maelstrom.

But this is the original Maelstrom I'm talking about, the one written in the early 1980s by a 14 year old kid that ended up being published by Penguin and a major influence on the Warhammer system.

It was an historical RPG set in Elizabethan England with a cool (very innovative, for the time) magic system, very gritty atmosphere, and the best guide to herbalism I've ever seen in an RPG product.

RPGPundit

The game from PiG is not new - it's a re-release of an older game Brett got the rights to.

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#27
October 16, 2006, 04:50:57 PM
I owned Darkurhe Legends and even ran it (you try mixing the groups, not easy--its one of those games players should be required to stick to regionally "related" sorts without a VERY good backstory.)

The setting was very much like having Tolkien's world rewritten by Lovecraft fans.
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#28
October 16, 2006, 04:56:07 PM
Hmn.  Cool facial hair, Spanish guys, rapier, blood?

I'm on a quest!

...those helmets ARE Spanish, right?
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#29
October 16, 2006, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditThere is, apparently, some newer game from PiG that I haven't heard of, called Maelstrom.

But this is the original Maelstrom I'm talking about, the one written in the early 1980s by a 14 year old kid that ended up being published by Penguin and a major influence on the Warhammer system.

It was an historical RPG set in Elizabethan England with a cool (very innovative, for the time) magic system, very gritty atmosphere, and the best guide to herbalism I've ever seen in an RPG product.

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That's a great cover!!  Particularly for the time period. I can't tell from the pic, is it a normally sized rpg book?
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