Quote from: David RSame here...except for the last one on the list. Not cold

Is it you who lives in Malaysia? Next time I make it there we should hook up.

Quote from: droogIs it you who lives in Malaysia? Next time I make it there we should hook up.

Yup. Sounds good. Just let me know when you will be over here.

Regards,
David R

Insert Licensed Property Here -- Generally speaking, that is.  I'm not entirely sure as to the reasons why, other than I typically don't find that my enjoyment of a work of fiction carries over to an enjoyment of a game sharing its setting.

I can see the attraction of having a setting that everyone knows and shares a common sense of theme/mood, but I don't find the games to be particularly intriguing.  This is particularly true of games that come out of a work of fiction that is specifically geared towards one central character, such as Farscape.  Absolutely adore the show, but it's about John and anything that's likely to be done within the game is going to seem either: 1) redundant; 2) missing the point of the show; 3) both in some mixture.


Forgotten Realms -- Doesn't matter the incarnation of the setting, it's never done anything for me.  I'm a Greyhawk kid, I guess.  Though I do rather like Al-Qadim, which I guess is supposed to be part of FR, so there's that exception.

In this case, I could see my interest going up if I were a player under a DM that I thought was going to present an interesting game.  I'm much more willing to put aside my reservations when it comes to being a player.

Quote from: AkrasiaI cannot even begin to get interested in a game involving Mormons, so Dogs in the Vineyard, despite being a darling of many RPGnetters I respect, is a complete nonstarter for me.

I've got nothing against Mormons, because honestly I don't know much about them. But there's not a damn thing about DitV that even remotely interests me.

Ditto Exalted. Downloaded the first edition corebook when it was a freebie on DriveThru. Read it. Deleted it. In theory, it sounded interesting; in practice, not so much.

Sounds like more of a thread to bash RPG.net darlings.

Im going to say Star Wars - because I read the original WEG ruleset at the same time as Paranoia and noticed similarities in the writing and comedy.

Quote from: flyingmiceanime illos, fake oriental martial arts, pretentious naming systems... everything guaranteed to turn clash off, all in one book.

Is there anything more lame and embarrassing than a bunch of WASPy honky dorks trying to ape Asian culture as learned through Dragonball Z reruns on Cartoon Network and PlayStation games?

It is always just wretched.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!
And thus he came, Pink Tie blazing,
Upon Borgstrom's Book, the Flower-Tome,
The Book of Nobles, Coffee-table game.
His eye fell upon it, and then fell right off.
"Where's the damn robots?" he said,
And went off to play Toon.[/SIZE]

Hehehe... nice one.

I really wanted to like Nobilis but I find it unreadable and I'm not overly sure as to what to do with it either.

Weapons of the Gods - Left me cold from day one due to the fact that I've realised recently that I absolutely hate kung-fu films.  Any RPG with asian influences that isn't utterly realistic and all about Samurais cutting each other to shreds on a whim is going to be lost to me.


GURPS - Too many rules.  I refuse to have anything to do with any RPG that has a 300 page core book which is nothing but rules.  Life is too damn short.


Any Superhero game - I don't read superhero comics, I never have.  Not interested in the least.  The fact that these games usually come with hundreds and hundreds of pages of rules makes this even worse.  I don't mind pulp so much but even then, I couldn't ever write that kind of shit.


Any traditional fantasy game EVER - I don't read fat fantasy and for me, the rules of genre are like the rules of culinary excellence laid down by Escoffier... they're made to be broken.  So D&D worlds, Earthdawn, Various fantasy games all leave me utterly cold.  I have as much interest in that shit as I do in romance novels.  The only fantasy games I really actively like are WHFRP because it's not really about being heroic (ideally) and Stormbringer simply because it's an excellent system.

Oh yeah, I've never been able to get into Superhero games.  I've got nothing against the genre, but for some reason I just can't get excited about a Supers RPG.

Quote from: palehorseI've got nothing against Mormons, because honestly I don't know much about them...

Well, aside from the fact that Mormonism involves belief in some fictional entity (cough*God*cough), it requires its adherents to refrain from the consumption of coffee and alcohol.

Any deity that requires that shit is definitely not a 'loving' one. :mad:

Quote from: YamoIs there anything more lame and embarrassing than a bunch of WASPy honky dorks trying to ape Asian culture as learned through Dragonball Z reruns on Cartoon Network and PlayStation games?

It is always just wretched.

Talk about hitting the nail on the head.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!
"Where's the damn robots?" he said,
And went off to play Toon.[/SIZE]

Go with the Chancel Resources "Extrapolative Technology" and "Weird Science: Advanced Robotics", and perhaps "Magical Inhabitants: Cybernetic Soldiers" or some such thing. Of course, playing a robot as a PC wouldn't present any kind of a problem: one of the Nobles from the book is a futuristic nanotech assemblage, after all.

Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalI really wanted to like Nobilis but I find it unreadable and I'm not overly sure as to what to do with it either.

"When in doubt, send in an Excrucian with a flower rite." Investigating the occasional Breakthroughs and the disturbances which follow in the style of Sapphire and Steel is very much the default scenario in the game.

Anything by White Wolf, especially Vampire - why should I play a homicidal monster again? The rules do nothing for me as well.

Any game that's sold purely on the basis of its setting. Talistlanta. 7th Sea. Deadlands. They get nothing but indifference from me.

D&D and other D20 based games. They seem to cover in great detail stuff that I don't want covered in great detail.

Weapons of the Gods physically pained me, because gaming desperately needed a good game for running campaigns in historical China, but the moment I heard it was a Borgstrom project, I knew this WASN'T going to be it. I figured, and I was right on the money on this one, that it would be a wordy incoherent jumbled mess of a game filled with pretentious poetry, fiction, posturing, and self-aggrandizement.

Luckily, Qin is here now. Qin is the anti-borgstrom.

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Quote from: flyingmiceExalted - anime illos

Other than a couple of covers by the person who did the graphic design work for the Magna Carta console RPG, where is this anime illustration people keep referring to in Exalted?  All I ever see are the illos by the person that used to do Jovian Chronicles, and they bear no resemblance to anime/manga whatsoever.

I have the same issue with BESM, although a couple of the artists for that game did at least have an "anime" style.  But most of them didn't.

Exalted--yuck

WotG- see above

Nobilis

DitV

there are many others, but then i can be picky.

Myself, I like Exalted's comic-book look at pan-asian mythology.  It's no stupider than when the Japanese make a mockery of their own legends and history (see Samurai Champloo, Giant Robo, Dragon Ball.)

Something that's both popular and not for me 1st edition-style D&D.  d20 won my heart with its 5' squares and feats and CR.  1st edition has thus far resisted all my efforts to decode Gygax's writing.  d20 just clicks in my brain more easily.

I started out with straight-up D&D and it was a blast and a half.  I really missed its simplicity when I moved "up" to 2nd edition.  3rd edition (which hit when I was still in high school) seemed to take care of all the things I missed from D&D (simple, direct rules) and hated from AD&D (the punching table, d6 millenia to craft up a dagger +1, druid advancement...)

I don't feel the need to change up.

(If any of the above posters still have their WotG copies, PM me a price.  As much vitriol and spooge as this game's produced online, I have to see it for myself.)