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RPGsite Darlings?

Started by RPGPundit, January 12, 2011, 12:41:38 AM

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One Horse Town

#60
January 13, 2011, 04:11:18 PM
Quote from: Colin Chapman;432512Dan, you old goat! Hope life's treating you well? :)

Colin

Good enough! :D

Now you've got an underground success on your hands, you need to start pumping out more stuff tut suite!

two_fishes

#61
January 13, 2011, 05:45:54 PM Last Edit: January 13, 2011, 05:47:51 PM by two_fishes
Quote from: The Butcher;432583When something interesting is released (say, MRQII or Stars Without Number) we may have a thread or two, some discussion, etc. but nothing compared to the mass hysteria which grasps RPGnet.



This may be a factor of population size.

flyingmice

#62
January 13, 2011, 06:32:15 PM
Quote from: two_fishes;432623This may be a factor of population size.

Are you saying our people are bigger? Smaller?

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#63
January 13, 2011, 06:51:32 PM
Yes. People here are, on average, about an inch and a half shorter and 12.5 pounds lighter than the average participant at RPGnet. It is a well-known, scientifically demonstrable fact that there is a direct correlation between body size and a tendency toward fickle behaviour.

Also, there are more people at RPGnet.

Benoist

#64
January 13, 2011, 07:05:25 PM
Quote from: two_fishes;432623This may be a factor of population size.
I'll agree this is a factor, both in number of threads, and mass hysteria.
Of course, having a population prone to this kind of behavior makes it all the more efficient.

Caesar Slaad

#65
January 13, 2011, 07:39:23 PM
Quote from: Benoist;432220Is there any regular on the RPG Site who doesn't like MRQ2?

I don't hate it. It honestly isn't even on my radar. Nor have I ever heard of anyone ever playing it locally. Though I concede the last point isn't a requirement for RPGnet darlings, either.
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#66
January 13, 2011, 07:47:52 PM
Quote from: Novastar;432242Perhaps I, but that has more to do with the fact I haven't really looked at it, than anything else...

Yeah, I have no exposure to it...but the release of Wraith Recon may change that...

(We are talking about RuneQuest II, right?)
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#67
January 13, 2011, 07:51:52 PM
Quote from: Colin Chapman;432287The idea of AH being an "RPGSite Darling" tickles me no end. :)

The funny thing is, while threads on it pop up semi-regularly on RPG.net, very little lasts there as a Darling unless it's FATE-based or Exalted.

All of the really positive feedback I've had from folks (and there's been a lot) has been following actual play of the game, and it has done very well through that sort of word-of-mouth.

I've a hunch that it attracts a certain type of gamer, really. I mean, I created it first and foremost to appeal to me and my sensibilities (so, it's vanity press really), but those sensibilities are:

1) Quick chargen.
2) No metaplot.
3) Sketchy/brief setting approach more assumed within the rules and their presentation, with the expectation that you create/flesh out your own setting to taste.
4) Cinematic and brutal.
5) Relatively low page count (humongous tomes appeal less and less to me).
6) Simple and straightforward system.

I didn't expect that its somewhat Old School approach to setting, and trad system combo would appeal to all that many folks. I was glad to be wrong. As folks on the RAD forums have demonstrated, they're the types of folks who a) love to tinker (and see that as normal in tailoring something to their personal tastes), b) love fleshing out their own little slice of PA setting in brief, and c) more frequently get down to business and actually play. They're a great bunch of folks. :)

cheers!
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#68
January 13, 2011, 10:05:42 PM
Quote from: Tommy Brownell;432655I picked this up a week or so ago, but have been too busy to dig in yet...but I'm already eyeballing the Irradiated Freaks book, because extra freaky mutations sound awesome.



Oh, they're fun, especially for me rolling* up monstrosities to inflict the characters in my game.

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#69
January 13, 2011, 10:21:00 PM
Quote from: Colin Chapman;432287The idea of AH being an "RPGSite Darling" tickles me no end. :)

The funny thing is, while threads on it pop up semi-regularly on RPG.net, very little lasts there as a Darling unless it's FATE-based or Exalted.

All of the really positive feedback I've had from folks (and there's been a lot) has been following actual play of the game, and it has done very well through that sort of word-of-mouth.

I've a hunch that it attracts a certain type of gamer, really. I mean, I created it first and foremost to appeal to me and my sensibilities (so, it's vanity press really), but those sensibilities are:

1) Quick chargen.
2) No metaplot.
3) Sketchy/brief setting approach more assumed within the rules and their presentation, with the expectation that you create/flesh out your own setting to taste.
4) Cinematic and brutal.
5) Relatively low page count (humongous tomes appeal less and less to me).
6) Simple and straightforward system.

I didn't expect that its somewhat Old School approach to setting, and trad system combo would appeal to all that many folks. I was glad to be wrong. As folks on the RAD forums have demonstrated, they're the types of folks who a) love to tinker (and see that as normal in tailoring something to their personal tastes), b) love fleshing out their own little slice of PA setting in brief, and c) more frequently get down to business and actually play. They're a great bunch of folks. :)

cheers!
Colin

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Quote from: RPGPundit;432456I would suggest that the definition of "rpgsite darling" would be "a game that is over-hyped or whose qualities and applicable uses are overblown on theRPGsite".

That said, is there any game that would actually be that for this site?

RPGPundit

with this definition I retract my earlier offerings...not much here gets over-hyped.
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#70
January 14, 2011, 03:13:54 AM
Quote from: two_fishes;432644Yes. People here are, on average, about an inch and a half shorter and 12.5 pounds lighter than the average participant at RPGnet. It is a well-known, scientifically demonstrable fact that there is a direct correlation between body size and a tendency toward fickle behaviour.

Also, there are more people at RPGnet.

:rotfl:

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#71
January 14, 2011, 11:02:32 AM
Well, another definition could be "a game that is recently released or not yet released that becomes madly over-reported and talked about completely disproportionately to the number of people who have actually played or even read it, only to fall into the mists of time a few weeks later"; but usually I refer to that definition as "flavour of the month", and the other defintiion I gave more as the "darlings".

And for the record, I have no interest whatsoever in MRQII. So I certainly don't like it, though I couldn't be said to hate it either.

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#72
January 14, 2011, 11:55:51 AM
I concur that by Pundit's clarified definition, we don't have anything that can be termed as a "darling" here.  We are too cantankerous a bunch to allow for that kind of delusional enthusiasm.

If defined as games that are generally well regarded by the majority of the posters, I would say we have a number.  BD&D (in all of its variations) and Starblazer Adventures come to my mind immediately, but that is probably because I like them.


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danbuter

#73
January 14, 2011, 04:07:30 PM
Just consider a post I read about Weapons of the Gods.  

"I recommend WotG! It's going to be amazing! It hasn't been released yet, and I haven't read it, but I know it will be the best game ever because of what I've seen on these forums!"

While that's slightly paraphrased, it is almost exactly what someone wrote in a "recommend me a game thread" on the Net. And he was quite serious.
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#74
January 15, 2011, 10:11:17 AM Last Edit: January 15, 2011, 10:17:07 AM by 3rik
I haven't been around these forums very long yet but so far I haven't noticed any overhyping going on. Even though D&D/d20/Pathfinder/whatever seem to be as popular here as anywhere else, they're not overhyped. Same goes for Call of Cthulhu. (For the record I am not exactly particularly fond of D&D&Co., mildly put, but Cthulhu ranks among my all-time favourites.)

As for MRQII, I am with people like Pundit, Tommy Brownell and Caesar Slaad: I have no interest in the game but certainly don't hate it.
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