The most realistic RPG ever written!!!!

Thalaba · November 30, 2011, 09:55:59 AM

Quote from: Lawbag;492832New, innovative, exciting and realistic.

Then names his world Atlantasia - that's about as lazy as it gets when naming important stuff.

I don't mind Atlantasia that much, but I weep for the Nor-Scand Mountains.

Claudius · November 30, 2011, 10:15:25 AM

Quote from: stu2000;492825Website says the e-book's 4 dollors. I'd pick that up.
It all reminds me a great deal of Metascape.

Reading your posts, I've inferred you seem to like "realistic" games, like Hârnmaster, Rolemaster, Metal Magic & Lore, etc.

Well, I'm afraid this game is not for you, it would be if you were a fan of World of Synnibarr.

stu2000 · November 30, 2011, 10:40:30 AM

Quote from: Claudius;492841Reading your posts, I've inferred you seem to like "realistic" games, like Hârnmaster, Rolemaster, Metal Magic & Lore, etc.

Well, I'm afraid this game is not for you, it would be if you were a fan of World of Synnibarr.

I love Synnibar!

My favoritest game ever is Arduin. I absolutely do love the "hardcore realistic" games. But I also love the full gonzo. I tend not to like the things in the middle so much.

And although I respect production values, I respond more to enthusiasm. So even though they get sort of annoyingly self-congratulatory, I really enjoy some of these over-the-top heartbreakers. And since I tend to spackle over the minor rules problems as a matter of course, a game has to be both execrably designed and excruciatingly dull before I really start to hate it.

Claudius · November 30, 2011, 10:53:10 AM

Quote from: stu2000;492842I love Synnibar!
My favoritest game ever is Arduin. I absolutely do love the "hardcore realistic" games. But I also love the full gonzo. I tend not to like the things in the middle so much.

And although I respect production values, I respond more to enthusiasm. So even though they get sort of annoyingly self-congratulatory, I really enjoy some of these over-the-top heartbreakers. And since I tend to spackle over the minor rules problems as a matter of course, a game has to be both execrably designed and excruciatingly dull before I really start to hate it.

If you love Synnibarr, this game might be the bestest thing ever!!

flyingmice · November 30, 2011, 11:19:40 AM

Over on Google+, Chris Helton called this "RPG Folk Art", which is a great way to look at it. It's not for me, but then neither is D&D, so no problem. Having written a 500+ page game book I respect greatly anyone who can push through it.

-clash

One Horse Town · November 30, 2011, 11:25:03 AM

Quote from: flyingmice;492851Over on Google+, Chris Helton called this "RPG Folk Art", -clash

It's a good analogy. The hobby was built on this kind of stuff, so it's a bit rich to point and laugh at it.

flyingmice · November 30, 2011, 11:31:45 AM

Quote from: One Horse Town;492856It's a good analogy. The hobby was built on this kind of stuff, so it's a bit rich to point and laugh at it.

Exactly! My feelings to a "T"!

-clash

David R · November 30, 2011, 11:36:00 AM

I don't mind the whole folk art thing but the attitude rubs me the wrong way. (yeah I know, folks in glass houses.....

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Regards,
David R

Thalaba · November 30, 2011, 11:42:01 AM

Quote from: One Horse Town;492856It's a good analogy. The hobby was built on this kind of stuff, so it's a bit rich to point and laugh at it.

I think most of the laughter is directed at the naive hype surrounding the product, and not the product itself. It's a bit rich to claim to have done things nobody has ever done before and that this little pebble of a game will topple the Goliath. There's a comedy to that - a tragic comedy, but a comedy nonetheless.

I think the 'folk art' analogy is excellent, and I feel for the artist in this case. He strikes me as a vertiable Don Quixote.

Opaopajr · November 30, 2011, 12:29:05 PM

Quote from: flyingmice;492851Over on Google+, Chris Helton called this "RPG Folk Art"
-clash

Excellent description. Especially because his tone literally does break my heart as well. I want to laugh, but then there's the urge to cry. And how much of a bastard I would be to do either in the face of someone so painfully earnest.

Oh, the misguided purchases I'd make if I had millions of dollars in disposable income...

Blazing Donkey · November 30, 2011, 01:15:00 PM

Quote from: TristramEvans;492823he knows and can use ALL forms of magic
 the biggest thing not known about Par-traxx (none of the Deities even know this) is that he is actually the avatar of the original creator of all the known universes and dimensions

Because of this last point, Par-traxx cannot be touched physically, mentally or magically.

LOL!

"My character is can do anything and you can't hurt him in any way!"

LordVreeg · November 30, 2011, 01:22:27 PM

Quote from: David R;492860I don't mind the whole folk art thing but the attitude rubs me the wrong way. (yeah I know, folks in glass houses.....)

Regards,
David R

Yes.
Pretty much how i feel in my glass domicile.

I wish him much happiness and success.

arminius · November 30, 2011, 01:33:45 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;492810I'm not going to trample on someone who has obviously invested so much time and effort into this project.

I will however trample on him for the lousy Flash intro screen, and for his use of the term "RPG scene".

I didn't get far enough to look at the details of the game. Could be fun, who knows?

beeber · November 30, 2011, 01:42:06 PM

upcoming new darling at tBP perhaps? :rolleyes:

One Horse Town · November 30, 2011, 01:45:21 PM

Quote from: beeber;492884upcoming new darling at tBP perhaps? :rolleyes:

Nah, they're being nastier than we are.

Most of them are oblivious to the fact that they support games and writers with worse ideas and mechanics than so far seen in this game.