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Stormbringer - Emo?

Started by One Horse Town, March 04, 2010, 02:52:57 PM

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#45
March 08, 2010, 03:54:28 PM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;365076Fair enough.  But it's also worth reiterating that, as pretentious as the authors may have intended it, my experience and familiarity with Vampire has been consistently of the action-packed variety.  And, on the backside, I could imagine Stormbringer being dragged down to mopey introspection by some players, even though the novels succeed in rising above that sort of thing.  Maybe that's what J.K. Rowling was reacting to when she tried to imagine what players could feasibly do with an officially sanctioned RPG interpretation of her imaginary world.

I think that she'd more likely be concerned about people using it to act out hot steamy teenage-wizard sex, like what I am told consists of 90% of all the harry potter fanfiction out there.

QuoteAnd so we get to the often boardgame-like mechanics seen in many Forge and Forge-ish games (and certain excellent mainstreamish games, like King Arthur Pendragon) that hone the focus on certain expected behaviors, often posing them as mechanical foils to players' metagame ambitions.  The big question, though: Do the mechanics promote roleplaying?  If so, is the resulting roleplay in any way of lesser quality than in a traditional RPG?  Is it better or worse than the roleplay that results from the more skirmish-like traditional RPGs?

!i!

I think the answer depends on how its crafted. If it is done so within the confines of the Regular RPG, where the players' actions determine the mechanical effects (like what happens in Pendragon, where the "restrictions" of the personality mechanics only come about as long term consequences of many many short-term choices of behaviour), it can work really well. Where the idea is to divorce the mechanics of personality from actual roleplay for the sake of "story" (like what happens in most Forge games) the result is utter crap.

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#46
March 17, 2010, 01:08:02 AM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;364684Mournblade should totally have an "e" in it:  Mourneblade.  Besides, I refer you to Bloodlust, and Blue Öyster Cult's "Black Blade".  A whole group of characters running around with Stormbringers would rawk!

!i!

It seems a new edition of Bloodlust called Bloodlust Metal may be published before summer.

The cover isn't of Frazetta but it isn't too bad.

Benoist

#47
March 17, 2010, 11:29:15 AM
Quote from: boulet;367753It seems a new edition of Bloodlust called Bloodlust Metal may be published before summer.

The cover isn't of Frazetta but it isn't too bad.
From what I understand, the combat system, with all its different skills for each different type of attack and defense (Power Attack, Feignt, Rapid Attack etc) is gone, though. The system will be completely different. It's the universe of Bloodlust, with the continent of Tanaephys, the cool races and background, the God Weapons for each PC, etc, but I'll wait until I see some reviews before deciding what to make of it.

I L-O-V-E the original Bloodlust. It's like Stormbringer and Conan meet in a bar, have a fight, rape one another, and their kid, who read a tiny little bit of Tolkien while doing hard drugs, is raised by Frank Frazetta. Yeah. It's that metal/hardcore. It's awesome.
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