Not a game, but I did receive a 2200point(3e rules) Sisters of Battle Army(40k) cuz the other guy had a hankering for donuts at 3am.  Lucky for me Jolly Pirate Donuts in C-bus is open 24/7 and wasn't even 2 miles away.

Quote from: remial;1002490I have a copy of Wraeththu that showed up on my doorstep one day in the mail.
I did not order it.
none of my friends ordered it for me.
at the time I received it, only one person knew I'd even read the original trilogy, and I'd not seen her in 15 years, and she doesn't know where I live.

I've tried reading it, but I get as far as finishing the opening fiction and get so mad that I have to put the book away for another year.

It might have been Darren MacClennan. Wraethu is his favorite RPG.

I don't  know that these are strange, but I got the complete Traveller boxed set (1977) from my older sister's boyfriend because he thought he had grown out of it, got an overstuffed boxed set of James Bond 007 (with Q Manual and Thrilling Cities jammed in, I think, or maybe For Your Information) at a garage sale for maybe $2 or $3, and have gotten a hold of a few cool out-of-print games at a local game store that has (or had, haven't been there in a couple of years) occasional gems hidden away on a used game shelf in the backroom where guys are playing elaborate miniatures games and sometimes kids are playing collectible card game tournaments.  Met a few players there, too, over the years.

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;10021081) I found the hardcover player's book (The "Actor's Book of Characters") for the utterly bizarre 80s oddity World Action and Adventure mixed in with the children's books at a library sale. It was twenty-five cents.

One night I hanging around with a friend before a game. He spotted the book on my shelf and, knowing of the game's infamy, wanted to roll up a character. He rolled a "Thief". He then had to roll what sub-type of thief he was. He got "Rapist".

The contrarian side of me wants to play that game now. That cracked me up.

(How on earth is "rapist" a "sub-type" of THIEF?)

Steals sex?

Quote from: Schwartzwald;1003082Steals sex?

It would seem to me then that thief was the sub-type of rapist...what an odd game.

Years and years ago Richard "apollo" Hatch was trying to recapture his year of happiness on the original battlestar Galactica  and tried to create a sci fi opus called "the great war of Magellan", a schlocky SciFi setting even the SciFi channel wouldn't pick up.

Nonetheless he managed to get some comics, some videos, and even a RPG done. There was at least a few copies of the great war of Magellan RPG printed and I  played a game of it at a convention Richard hatch was attending as a media guest.

Well, I was curious about it and looked it up later, and when i poked around the website I found a link to TGWOM.PDF and clicked on it. The link was right there in the open. I was not " hacking".

It downloaded the PDF of the rules book to my computer, just like that. No hacking, no stealing, just looking around the website.

It was a generic action SciFi setting, never got picked up. Still better than some of the shit the SFC did give a season to. I can't say I remember much except the concept of "shardite" which I might use someday.

Quote from: ffilz;1001588Does driving out in a near blizzard to try and find Champions count?

Frank

Much how I got Conquest of the Empire: begging my mom to drive me to the store to get it, through a near blizzard.

She drove there, white-knuckled, muttering, "I cannot believe I let you talk me into this," over and over.

Quote from: Schwartzwald;1003084Years and years ago Richard "apollo" Hatch was trying to recapture his year of happiness on the original battlestar Galactica  and tried to create a sci fi opus called "the great war of Magellan", a schlocky SciFi setting even the SciFi channel wouldn't pick up.

Nonetheless he managed to get some comics, some videos, and even a RPG done. There was at least a few copies of the great war of Magellan RPG printed and I  played a game of it at a convention Richard hatch was attending as a media guest.

Well, I was curious about it and looked it up later, and when i poked around the website I found a link to TGWOM.PDF and clicked on it. The link was right there in the open. I was not " hacking".

It downloaded the PDF of the rules book to my computer, just like that. No hacking, no stealing, just looking around the website.

It was a generic action SciFi setting, never got picked up. Still better than some of the shit the SFC did give a season to. I can't say I remember much except the concept of "shardite" which I might use someday.

Schwartzwald,  you should start a thread and tell us about this game and setting. I've never heard of it.

Quote from: Dumarest;1003083It would seem to me then that thief was the sub-type of rapist...what an odd game.

It's barely even a game. Character generation is basically just a random chart of "Jobs" (Like cowboy, teenager, astronaut, or rapist). The "System" is just a single "Roll high" mechanic. A weird vanity project self-published by some rich kid. The back cover has a photo of him in a polo shirt on the deck of his yacht. Worth reading if you can get it dirt cheap just for it's sheer oddness.

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;1003127It's barely even a game. Character generation is basically just a random chart of "Jobs" (Like cowboy, teenager, astronaut, or rapist). The "System" is just a single "Roll high" mechanic. A weird vanity project self-published by some rich kid. The back cover has a photo of him in a polo shirt on the deck of his yacht. Worth reading if you can get it dirt cheap just for it's sheer oddness.

Wow.

Cleaning house a few weeks ago I discovered that I have a stapled print-out of the playtest rules for Exile, Mark Rein*Hagen's 1996 Dune-ish space opera game. It was supposed to be White Wolf's  big follow-up to the World of Darkness but was scuttled by company politics and "Creative differences". I assume that I printed it off at the local university's computer lab  (As I had no computer of my own at the time) , but I don't remember doing so.

It's really not bad at all. Shame it was stillborn.

Quote from: Dumarest;1003122Schwartzwald,  you should start a thread and tell us about this game and setting. I've never heard of it.

This pretty much says it all... https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13253.phtml

There was a video made, here's what I found. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snL9eOWDBNY

To be honest the only thing I remember now is shardite. Shardite was the impossible material of the game. It was a glowing blue crystalline element that produced unlimited but low level energy constantly. It produced a blue light just enough to read by and was used to charge power cells in weapons and other things. It had an oddly unique scientific explanation I remember.

Space is constantly expanding, according to modern science. Shardite was unique in that as space expanded it essentially "rubbed" against shardite  at the quantum level in some way, and the interaction of ever expanding space "fabric" and shardite at the quantum level produced the energy shardite radiated constantly.

That's mostly the main thing i remember.  It seemed fairly original. On the whole it was mostly a genetic sci fi mishmash of generic sf action and psuedo fantasy elements. Various "powers" substituting for magic,  various technology substituting for magic, aliens like various fantasy races....get the idea?

I found the (new edition of) the Robotech RPG in a small bookstore in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania.

Hmm...

I found the Starships book (book 2?) of the original LBB Traveller, sitting on a table in what was basically an airport waiting room (but not, you know, actually IN the airport... keep reading and it might make sense...) in Afghanistan.

I'm pretty sure someone just randomly donated it as random reading material with no idea what it was... perhaps the other LBBs were included but didn't make it to this particular location?

I, of course, adopted it immediately. Poor thing was half starved and shivering.