Careful, I'll start going on about Tower Raven's Universe...

Quote from: droogWell, to get more specific, I'm not so sure that it does. I've had a couple of excellent campaigns with it, though.

I've been thinking of doing an AP write-up of our last V&V game at the Forge, looking at the social context, CA etc. If I started a thread here, what sort of emphasis do you think it should have?

CA means cartoon action, right?  Then totally, the same emphasis!

Consider yourself smacked across the head.

If I can convince my group to branch out a bit, you won't be able to shut me up from talking about:

- Ars Magica 5th
- Dying Earth
- Qin
- Mutants & Masterminds 2nd

As to M&M2, I'm giddy about the Iron Age era sourcebook coming out!  Granted, a lot of Iron Age (mid-80's to mid-90's) era of comics are crap, but this is MY era of crap, see?  I grew up on this crap, and I own this crap!  But if I find this crap endlessly entertaining then I don't give a crap as to who else thinks its crap!

Yep, I agree regarding both the Iron Age book and comics era.

The M&M stuff continues to be pure gold.

I love Alternity. Alternity is fiddly, overly-complex, and not entirely sensible, and I love it for being all of those things and a billion more. When I was a kid, all I played was AD&D 2e. It was Heavy Gear and Alternity that opened up the idea of playing something else.

When I was a goofball kid, I used Alternity to run this wicked campaign set in the year 5000ish when this intergalactic war was going on. One of my favourite adventures from that campaign was this awesome Aliens take-off when the PCs approached this drifting freighter. It had every cool sci-fi cliche that exists for a 16 year old - chainguns, rocket launchers, lightsabers, people melted into walls, parasitic man-eating aliens, warp travel, attack robot babes and things getting blown out of airlocks, all packed into a single adventure. It culminated in this zero-G lightsaber fight with the aliens down the central shaft of the freighter that the PCs won by turning the gravity on at the far end, and having everyone fall to their deaths (the PCs had rocket packs or magnetic shoes or something, I forget what).

Ever since that campaign Alternity = awesome shit.

Quote from: MoriartyIf I can convince my group to branch out a bit, you won't be able to shut me up from talking about:

- Dying Earth

Ooh, yeah. Got that one on my nightstand to re-read. Its near the top of my "Games I'd like to play but my regular group would rather floss their toes with razorwire than try it" list. I love being overly verbose!

Burning Wheel makes me want to play it in the same way that D&D did when I first found a beat up copy in the library as a kid. But it's complicated, and I don't think I can convince everyone I know to give it a shot since we're already kind of short on time.

But Lifepaths are cool and scripted combat is intriguing.

The games I'm playing in and running are fairly suburban. I play in a 3.5 D&D game. I Just finished running a AFMBE Wild west game. I'm starting a 1930's pulp tramp steamer campaign monday. (And yes I did steal the idea from this forum.  I also have to give props to Greentounge for the nice PDF) But the games I want to play would be Fuzion, and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. The Cadillac and Dinosaurs game (which uses the twillight 2k 2nd edition rules) I just picked up a week or so ago, in a bargin bin. It looks like it could be mad fun. But only two of my players and I are familiar with the setting (and the comics it based on). I'm not so sure the rest of the group woould be keen with it. As for Fuzion. I have a fully fleshed out "Red Dawn" campaign. I have a huge binder with damn near every american and soviet vehicle/weapon stated out. They united states mapped as what part is occuppied by who. Tons of background material. Whats going on the ground so to speak for multiple locations. Something I've put a lot of work into. And quite franklyI am proud of. So whats the problem you say? When I've brought up the campaign. I havent liked where my conversations have gone with the players, that I have dicussed this with. A loud majority wants to play them selves. Wow, I really dont like that idea. I get enough of the real world, well in the real world. Besides half my players I'm not so sure if I handed them one of my  revolvers that they could even load it. Seriously. If the russians invaded the last thing I would do is gather these peole together to form a cell of freedom fighters. I would run like hell from them. Because they would get me killed. Maybe I'm over analyzing it. I just dont see it being fun with the whole group. I think it could work with some of the group. But I'm not going to start a game and exclude any one. And I'm not going to start a game with a bad mind set, not enjoying it.

Quote from: droogThe ones I own: RuneQuest, Pendragon, Sorcerer, Bacchanal, My Life with Master, Primetime Adventures, HeroQuest, Burning Wheel, Trollbabe, Villains & Vigilantes, kill puppies for satan, Prince Valiant, Dust Devils, It Was a Mutual Decision.

Dude, do you really think nobody here is interested in RQ? :eek:

Quote from: ImperatorDude, do you really think nobody here is interested in RQ? :eek:

Well--and now I'm going to sound picky--the trouble is that I'm not that interested in RQ any more. I ran it for fifteen years and I'm kind of burned out. If somebody wants some tips or pointers, I can do that, but I really don't have a lot to say about it any more.

I handed my RQ collection over to my friend Brett when I left Perth, and all I've actually got here is my old RQ2 book.

Quote from: ImperatorDude, do you really think nobody here is interested in RQ? :eek:

I'd say the same thing about Pendragon. 'Course, I'd like to take the Pendragon-specific stuff and layer it onto a system I like better than Chaosium's BRP, but that's neither here nor there...

You mean you'd like to import the Traits and Passions? Or something else?

Quote from: droogYou mean you'd like to import the Traits and Passions? Or something else?

Yeah, the Traits and Passions. It's actually pretty easy, relatively speaking. Matter of fact, I worked on it years back, and I know someone else had done a full-on conversion of them for d20.

Are you talking about the new edition of Pendragon? I keep hearing good things about it, but no details. Care to expand?