RPGs No One Is Playing

Kellri · December 17, 2009, 01:29:01 PM

Tom Moldvay's magnum opus from Avalon Hill, Lords of Creation.

And why no pdf of this game floating around either?? It's just a damn shame. PM me if you've got one, I'll send you my firstborn by UPS tomorrow.

Paul B · December 17, 2009, 01:34:31 PM

Quote from: Kellri;349664Tom Moldvay's magnum opus from Avalon Hill, Lords of Creation.

And why no pdf of this game floating around either?? It's just a damn shame. PM me if you've got one, I'll send you my firstborn by UPS tomorrow.

Holy cow, how could I have forgotten? Dunno if it was ever played in great quantities, given that "playing" LoC was itself more-or-less impossible straight from the tin. We hacked through a few sessions of it in the same spirit as hacking through Galloway's Fantasy Wargaming.

jrients · December 17, 2009, 01:36:33 PM

Quote from: Paul B;349669Holy cow, how could I have forgotten? Dunno if it was ever played in great quantities, given that "playing" LoC was itself more-or-less impossible straight from the tin. We hacked through a few sessions of it in the same spirit as hacking through Galloway's Fantasy Wargaming.

Impossible? Why? I ran a one shot of Lords of Creations a couple years back. I didn't encounter anything grotesque about the rules.

The Yann Waters · December 17, 2009, 01:41:13 PM

Quote from: baran_i_kanu;349470i tried porting some of the vehicle rules over to Nightlife with marginal success.

Cribbing the space vehicle rules from Expendables into A.C.E. Agents! probably wouldn't prove all that difficult, come to think of it. The agency's own "Space Command" section doesn't get much attention in the book.

Paul B · December 17, 2009, 01:48:46 PM

Quote from: jrients;349672Impossible? Why? I ran a one shot of Lords of Creations a couple years back. I didn't encounter anything grotesque about the rules.

Oh hell, who can remember any more? I was like 14 at the time. I just remember reading and reading and reading and it never quite sticking in my head. It was, uh, the Universalis to my li'l book Traveller, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, etc.

jrients · December 17, 2009, 01:51:13 PM

Quote from: Paul B;349677Oh hell, who can remember any more? I was like 14 at the time. I just remember reading and reading and reading and it never quite sticking in my head.

Okey-dokey. I have lots of games that I didn't have straight when I was kid. I just wondered if I had missed something that was crucially screwed up about the game.

enelson · December 17, 2009, 02:07:31 PM

LOC is a good one. I forgot I had bought it when Wargames West (? -- a distributor in the US) had it on clearance. Didn't it have a standard type of damage -- something CS?

Any Twilight 2000 play still happening? Tried it once in the early/mid 80s and it was fun but very different to what we had been playing at the time (D&D and Rolemaster).

Ronin · December 17, 2009, 02:14:37 PM

Quote from: enelson;349692Any Twilight 2000 play still happening?

I wish there was around here. I would be on board.

Werekoala · December 17, 2009, 02:54:48 PM

My group will dust off T2K about once a year and go for a spin in a BTR70 just for old-time's sake.

Silverlion · December 17, 2009, 04:01:39 PM

Quote from: Kellri;349664Tom Moldvay's magnum opus from Avalon Hill, Lords of Creation.

And why no pdf of this game floating around either?? It's just a damn shame. PM me if you've got one, I'll send you my firstborn by UPS tomorrow.

I wish I could find another print copy myself.

BloodyCactus · December 17, 2009, 04:39:29 PM

I'd be curious to know if anyone is still playing any of the anime rpg's (tenchi muyo, sailor moon, hellsing, trigun, dominion tank police, demon city shinjuku, el hazaard, slayers, utena).. which I think were all besm/tri stat pulp.

Paul B · December 17, 2009, 04:45:04 PM

Quote from: jrients;349681Okey-dokey. I have lots of games that I didn't have straight when I was kid. I just wondered if I had missed something that was crucially screwed up about the game.

You know what it was? I think it was that the game is unclear as to how one becomes a Lord of Creation. Did you start as one? Did you ascend somehow? All the dimension-hopping and pocket-universes and all that were just sort of scattered through the book IIRC as well: did you create pocket universes? How did you travel? Yeah...I had no real issues with straight resolution. It had more to do with the promise of multiversal awesomeness not quite being spelled out.

I think we hammered through Horn of Roland. That sounds super-familiar.

The Yann Waters · December 18, 2009, 07:30:34 AM

Quote from: BloodyCactus;349758I'd be curious to know if anyone is still playing any of the anime rpg's (tenchi muyo, sailor moon, hellsing, trigun, dominion tank police, demon city shinjuku, el hazaard, slayers, utena).. which I think were all besm/tri stat pulp.

Sailor Moon RPG, occasionally, although I don't currently have a regular campaign or particular plans for it. And yes, the system that it's based on is an early version of Tri-Stat, dating back to the time when GoO was still publishing their anime games as standalone products instead of fan guide supplements for BESM.

Silverlion · December 18, 2009, 04:08:58 PM

Quote from: Paul B;349759You know what it was? I think it was that the game is unclear as to how one becomes a Lord of Creation. Did you start as one? Did you ascend somehow? All the dimension-hopping and pocket-universes and all that were just sort of scattered through the book IIRC as well: did you create pocket universes? How did you travel? Yeah...I had no real issues with straight resolution. It had more to do with the promise of multiversal awesomeness not quite being spelled out.

I think we hammered through Horn of Roland. That sounds super-familiar.

You leveled up--and eventually could create your own realities when you ascended to the top of the "level" chain.

Kellri · December 18, 2009, 09:01:31 PM

Quote from: SilverlionYou leveled up--and eventually could create your own realities when you ascended to the top of the "level" chain.

Exactly. In practice it was akin to starting out as a nobody and ending up as Dr. Who - seemingly the #1 inspiration for the game, albeit through an American POV.