Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1026983It's play balance, overdone.  The "tank" gets beat on all day without serious harm, but can't kill a flea.  I don't mind the "tank destroyer" rogue, as I said, but Sir John Chandos in full plate with shield, apparently using a rubber chicken for a weapon, is just silly.

I play "Lord of the Rings Online" because the art direction is really, really well done; Rivendell literally took my breath away.  Oh yeah, and it's free.

But my 35th level Hobbit Hunter (Robin Hood type, leather armor, bow) can kill a Warg with two shots, while my 40th level Human Warrior (All the Armor, All the Time, and a Zweihander for spice) takes about six or seven blows with his 2-handed sword to kill the same Warg.  The Warrior takes no serious damage meleeing with the Warg, but it just gets tedious after a while to have to do the bad guy in with what appears to be a dull butter knife.  I find myself muttering "Will you just die already?"

Ah ha!!! This explains so much of what I've seen in the 5E campaign, where I could be doing something useful like picking my nose when the party gets jumped and has a melee. Those Old Dead Guys (from which we derive the ODG games movement, of course) led me to believe that as a guy in a decent suit of armor would survive long enough in combat to be able to return blows and do some major damage in a few rounds. Obviously, they had it all wrong, and I've been duped.

Those Frankish dogs shall not prevail!!! I shall have my revenge - I've ordered the "Bahubaali" series, and nothing can stop me now! Warm up the elephants!!! We march!!!

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1026988It used to be funny, agreed; however, like The Game Police, it's become all too real. I've got a nice Packard staff car downstairs that I'm going to give lights and a siren to, so I gan have The Serious Gamer (the guy who told me he would run me out of the FLGS for my figures) be The Commissioner; Reaper makes the police officers. Now, all I need is a 1/48 - 1/56 Lincoln Futura concept car that's had a few modifications, and I can have The Caped Crusader as well.

I have this nasty habit, you see, of immortalizing my tormentors in miniature and then having them appear as random encounters to annoy and harass the PCs as they go about their business...

I once turned a Monogram F-101 Voodoo model into the Batplane...

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1026994I once turned a Monogram F-101 Voodoo model into the Batplane...

Yep; best kit for the job, as it's got the best-looking nose and tail for the Batplane. Some styrene, some filler putty, and we're off!

I did have a look around; I can get 1/24 Batmobiles all over the place, but a 1/48 - 1/56 version is proving hard to find. The required Batsignal, on the other hand, is available as an MDF kit off the shelf, and would be very easy to wire up with a good light and new logo.

The notion of doing a game with all this is getting to be right up there as the 'Gen Con' Braunstein game with these figures as the resort's faction, trying to get all the cash they can out of the cheapskate gamers:

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The other factions / warbands would be Publishers, Authors, Artists, Magazine Editors, and Miniatures Manufacturers. (Maybe a bunch of figures in business suits to add another faction, the Lawyers.) All and sundry have great wads of cash and/or dire poverty, and each wants to get the loot from the other. 'Prestige' points also can be gathered, from all the wheeling and dealing being done in the hallways. Players would be encourage to come up with snappy names for their game companies, game designs, and miniatures lines.

Think 'Monopoly' meets 'Game of Thrones'; I suspect the biggest problem would be keeping straight faces long enough to finish each turn.

EDIT: Ooops! I hit send, too soon; another faction would be Fans, who want the Prestiege points for being published in the magazines. If they get published, they can level up to become Big Name Fans.

The possibilities for mayhem are endless!

Oh my dear Lord in heaven.



And boy howdy, that was an EXPENSIVE convention.  I think a Coke was something like two or three dollars -- maybe even five -- and these were 1977 dollars, to boot.

And I remember Tom... can't remember his last name... from Dragontooth Miniatures complaining to Gary that the hot water didn't work in his room.  "I didn't think I was going to pay $100 a night for a cold water flat."

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1026999Oh my dear Lord in heaven.



And boy howdy, that was an EXPENSIVE convention.  I think a Coke was something like two or three dollars -- maybe even five -- and these were 1977 dollars, to boot.

And I remember Tom... can't remember his last name... from Dragontooth Miniatures complaining to Gary that the hot water didn't work in his room.  "I didn't think I was going to pay $100 a night for a cold water flat."

Oohhh, yesss, my precioussss! We has plans, we has, and all of Lower-Middle Earth shall tremble in abject terror...

When they're not laughing their heads off, that is.

Yes, the resort's Ruthless Catering Manager will be setting the prices of everything, and posting them on the big board at the head of the room for the players to boggle at. They will have to eat some time, and that's when the resort will get them in it's clutches. All standard practice in the hospitality industry, as any convention organizer will know. I am going to be doing a lot of historical research, of course, to get all the little details right.

Loback.

I may, in the interests of 'immersion' and 'realism', add a deck of Event cards which will include moments like this, just to keep the players on the resort staff busy with customer 'issues'. Miniatures for the worker bees will be easy...

However, I do need a name for this game; the name must have an ampersand in between two words, which both have to start with the same letter. Entires to be posted here, with voting for the name to be used. The person submitting the winning entry will get a figure, painted by me, and the hale and hearty thanks of the players of the game. Ready? Set? GO!

(I really do have no shame, at all, when it comes to running Braunsteins.)

The.Con@CON ?
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Quote from: Hrugga;1026971I finally recieved my copy of The Kurt Hills Atlas. I am going through it now. Very nice book. A lot of stuff in there.

So it finally made it through the Foundation's review cycle? I'm looking forward to purchasing it (and the Katalal map).

Blaise

Quote from: bconsidine;1027059So it finally made it through the Foundation's review cycle? I'm looking forward to purchasing it (and the Katalal map).

Blaise

Yes. I have been waiting since 2016. But it finally arrived by The Inexorable Chlén Cart from Lulu. It was a nice suprise to come home from work and find it set aside for me.

Great art. Lots of new places and people to meet. Not to mention new beasties...In game terms you could spend years and years there. I'm sure you will love it.

H:0)

Quote from: Hrugga;1027066Yes. I have been waiting since 2016. But it finally arrived by The Inexorable Chlén Cart from Lulu. It was a nice suprise to come home from work and find it set aside for me.

Great art. Lots of new places and people to meet. Not to mention new beasties...In game terms you could spend years and years there. I'm sure you will love it.

H:0)

Indeed. I have plans to get some of the Sky Blue Water caravans (and the associated PCs) tangled up in some adventures in Tsolyanu's breadbasket.

Will this be available through Drive Thru RPG, to your knowledge? Or, if not, what is Lulu?

Blaise

Lulu  is a Print on Demand company. You can upload a file and have it printed as a hard or soft cover book in a variety of formats.
Another company is Lightning Source, much used by Drivethru RPG.

These companies are located in several countries allowing authors to 'ship' books internationally without using the US Postal Service. A US RPG author can deliver to his EU or OZ buyers by having the local POD company print and ship the books rather than printing in the US and shipping.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1027000Oohhh, yesss, my precioussss! We has plans, we has, and all of Lower-Middle Earth shall tremble in abject terror...

When they're not laughing their heads off, that is.

Yes, the resort's Ruthless Catering Manager will be setting the prices of everything, and posting them on the big board at the head of the room for the players to boggle at. They will have to eat some time, and that's when the resort will get them in it's clutches. All standard practice in the hospitality industry, as any convention organizer will know. I am going to be doing a lot of historical research, of course, to get all the little details right.

Loback.

I may, in the interests of 'immersion' and 'realism', add a deck of Event cards which will include moments like this, just to keep the players on the resort staff busy with customer 'issues'. Miniatures for the worker bees will be easy...

However, I do need a name for this game; the name must have an ampersand in between two words, which both have to start with the same letter. Entires to be posted here, with voting for the name to be used. The person submitting the winning entry will get a figure, painted by me, and the hale and hearty thanks of the players of the game. Ready? Set? GO!

(I really do have no shame, at all, when it comes to running Braunsteins.)

Well, "Dungeons & Dimwits" is an old favorite.

"Bunnies & Bozos?"

"Money & Morons?"

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1026937Yeah.

Also, SOME clown decided that "rogues" should be "high damage low protection" types.  Which, okay, fine.. but THEN, most computer games decided that heavily armored fighters, informally designated "tanks," should have lots of protection... AND SHIT DAMAGE.

So in 1944 the Allies went back to Matildas in combined arms with M10s.  I mean, I'm OK with the tank destroyer "rogue."  But why the FUCK they reduced fighter damage, I have no idea.

It really reduced my respect for computer game designers, honestly.

Well, that's how it worked by AD&D2e, Glorious General:). So I guess they wanted to not disappoint old customers, whenever possible?

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1027000Oohhh, yesss, my precioussss! We has plans, we has, and all of Lower-Middle Earth shall tremble in abject terror...

When they're not laughing their heads off, that is.

Yes, the resort's Ruthless Catering Manager will be setting the prices of everything, and posting them on the big board at the head of the room for the players to boggle at. They will have to eat some time, and that's when the resort will get them in it's clutches. All standard practice in the hospitality industry, as any convention organizer will know. I am going to be doing a lot of historical research, of course, to get all the little details right.

Loback.

I may, in the interests of 'immersion' and 'realism', add a deck of Event cards which will include moments like this, just to keep the players on the resort staff busy with customer 'issues'. Miniatures for the worker bees will be easy...

However, I do need a name for this game; the name must have an ampersand in between two words, which both have to start with the same letter. Entires to be posted here, with voting for the name to be used. The person submitting the winning entry will get a figure, painted by me, and the hale and hearty thanks of the players of the game. Ready? Set? GO!

(I really do have no shame, at all, when it comes to running Braunsteins.)

"Scams & Scums", Uncle:D!

Quote from: AsenRG;1027106Well, that's how it worked by AD&D2e, Glorious General:). So I guess they wanted to not disappoint old customers, whenever possible?

Fighters did crap damage in 2nd Ed?

Update...Kurt Hills is now available at RPGNow.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/235212/Kurt-Hills-Atlas

For interested parties.

H:0)

I have been asked to report that The Missus, in what seems to be a call-back to her Viking ancestors, is really getting into this particular game; she's writing up the Convention Event Cards, has ordered more miniatures, and is researching the odd bits that we can give out to players.

Given that she doesn't normally get into this kind of nuts-and-bolts game prep, I'd be afraid. Very, very afraid.

This game actually got it's start a few years ago, at Gary Con VII, when Gronan and I were asked about the possibility of running a second installment of 'The Great Mos Eisley Spaceport Raid'. We had some reservations about it at the time, due to various reasons, but the thing lives on in this game where we finally have the right convergence of assets to make it happen. So, I'll be building my little fingers off this summer...