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old Polyhedron mini-D20 games

Started by RPGPundit, September 23, 2006, 11:54:18 AM

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September 23, 2006, 11:54:18 AM
Has anyone beside me played a prolonged campaign with any of these?

I, obviously, played a campaign of Omega World, which to me was the best of the bunch for these, and Jong ran a campaign (where I played for once) of Pulp Heroes...were any of the others playable? How did they go?

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September 23, 2006, 12:01:42 PM
I haven't run any of them, really.  d20 just doesn't bake my biscuit these days.   But that Spelljammer issue is calling out for an Iron Gauntlets conversion...
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#2
September 23, 2006, 01:20:12 PM
Does anyone have a complete list of them?
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#3
September 23, 2006, 01:32:17 PM
I would LOVE to play or run an Iron Lords of Jupiter game. I have never had the chance of doing so, though.
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#4
September 23, 2006, 01:49:45 PM
I'd love to see a list of these, and what issue their in.  Does Paizo sell back issues of Polyhedron?
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#5
September 23, 2006, 02:09:11 PM
Yes, Paizo sells back issues

A first pass at listing them:

Dungeon #90 Pulp Heroes
Dungeon #91 Shadow Chasers
Dungeon #92 Spelljammer
Dungeon #93 Thunderball Rally
Dungeon #94 Omega World
Dungeon #95 Mecha Crusade
Dungeon #96 Genetech / Delta Green
Dungeon #97 V for Victory
Dungeon #99 Hijinx
Dungeon #101 Iron Lords of Jupiter
Dungeon #102 Pulp Heroes Redux / Iron Lords of Jupiter part 2
Dungeon #105 Deathnet
Dungeon #108 Dark Matter
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#6
September 23, 2006, 02:26:46 PM
That was fast! :)

Care to give a short summary about them? What's Hijinx, Iron Lords or Deathnet, for example?
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#8
September 23, 2006, 04:14:10 PM
Quote from: BalbinusHow does Paizo work?  Are those PDFs and if so do they have DRM protection?

Mostly they have physical issues, to be had here:

http://paizo.com/store/paizo/dungeon/issues

The have some download products of unavailable issues, available here:

http://paizo.com/store/paizo/dungeon/downloads

I think they would say if they are DRM, but I have never purchased any that way, so I don't know.
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#9
September 23, 2006, 04:24:43 PM
Quote from: JongWKThat was fast! :)

I cheated. ;)

QuoteCare to give a short summary about them? What's Hijinx, Iron Lords or Deathnet, for example?

Hijinx - Basically Josie and the Pussycats and similar "cartoon rock and roll adventure" type things.

Deathnet - Virtual reality setting, where the players are stuck in a simulated gaming reality. Sort of the matrix meets MMORPGS. Here's a summary.

Iron Lords of Jupiter - Planetary Romance, written in the vein of Burroughs Barsoom/Mars books.
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#10
September 23, 2006, 10:24:51 PM
Some of the material from these have made it into various d20 supplements, especially for d20 Modern.

I've said numerous times that I wish two things:

* for a collection of all these minigames into one handy volume
* an expansion upon them where necessary

Some of these would make for great GURPS-like sourcebooks for d20. Iron Lords of Jupiter is at the top of that list for me. Omega World and V For Victory would be the next entries on that list.
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#11
September 23, 2006, 11:44:37 PM
What's "V for Victory"?
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#12
September 24, 2006, 02:50:01 AM
Quote from: joewolzWhat's "V for Victory"?
Was just wondering that myself as I hadn't remembered that title.
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#13
September 24, 2006, 07:37:21 AM
Quote from: joewolzWhat's "V for Victory"?

World War II game.
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#14
September 24, 2006, 11:08:24 AM
I had the "Omega World" issue, and like a complete moron, I threw it out.
It was far better than the offical "gamma world" retread that was released later.
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