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Your All-Time Favorite Free RPG

Started by Zachary The First, May 07, 2007, 02:14:56 PM

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RedFox

#15
May 07, 2007, 05:20:07 PM
Quote from: Mcrowgood point. It is just so automatic for me now days that i don't really even need the character generation rules.

Likewise.  4d6, drop lowest isn't exactly brain surgery.  There's also a simple xp -> level progression, but I can never be arsed to remember it because I have the handy-dandy table.
 

J Arcane

#16
May 07, 2007, 05:22:36 PM
Quote from: RedFoxLikewise.  4d6, drop lowest isn't exactly brain surgery.  There's also a simple xp -> level progression, but I can never be arsed to remember it because I have the handy-dandy table.
If I remember correctly, it's your current level, times 1,000 needed to reach the next level.  But I maybe misremembering.
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#17
May 07, 2007, 05:25:32 PM
Quote from: J ArcaneIf I remember correctly, it's your current level, times 1,000 needed to reach the next level.  But I maybe misremembering.

I think it's that, added to your previous level's xp.  So 1,000 to reach 2nd, 3,000 to reach 3rd, 6,000 to reach 4th, and so on.

But see?  It's really a simple formula, but nobody can remember because there's this table...  ;)

Anyway, back to the thread.
 

Drew

#18
May 07, 2007, 05:25:52 PM
The ZeFRS project that's reviving TSR's old Conan system is excellent. I've recently rediscovered the system through this and am excited about their proposed developments.
 

Wil

#19
May 07, 2007, 05:54:27 PM
I gotta say SoTC/FATE 3.0. For what it is doing, it's really fucking cool. I wouldn't use it for, say, Jovian Chronicles, or Heavy Gear, or Blue Planet. But I'm adapting Tribe 8 to it and I have to say that I think serves the setting very, very well.
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#20
May 07, 2007, 06:37:04 PM
Quote from: RedFoxIt's technically not complete.  You cannot generate characters or advance them without house rules or purchasing the PHB.

Y'know, since I'd invariably have to add skill lists to FUDGE, I could say that about it, too.

But I wasn't thinking in that vein. I was thinking the even less complete Zothique D20.

Or FATE.
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#21
May 07, 2007, 06:59:38 PM
Another vote for Jags, particularly the Wonderland stuff.

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#22
May 07, 2007, 07:04:29 PM
I've seen a lot of free RPGs that kick the llama's ass, but for sheer thump-thump-thumpitty zero-em-gee-one-less-than-three full-on RPG geek swoon, I'm walking on the beach at sunset hand-in-hand with Encounter Critical.
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#23
May 07, 2007, 07:34:44 PM
Fuzion then Risus.
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#24
May 07, 2007, 08:15:51 PM
FATE, though it didn't run quite as well for me in real life as I thought it would :)

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Ian Absentia

#25
May 07, 2007, 08:25:02 PM
I was having trouble telling if this thread was the same one that I posted to last week.  It's not, so I'll reiterate my choice for best free game:

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That would be followed by FUDGE, which I've never actually played, but thought it was really, really neat.

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#26
May 07, 2007, 08:28:44 PM
I'd go Risus for a generic simple chargen/resolution system. If it was a question of what's given me the best experiences I'd have to say Nicotine Girls.
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#27
May 07, 2007, 09:07:34 PM
Quote from: JamesVFuzion then Risus.

The rules for Fuzion seemed to "broken" for me.   Action! seemd to fix some of the problems but even Action! had it's weaknesses.

Danger

#28
May 07, 2007, 09:26:58 PM
I start from his boots and work my way up. It takes a good half a roll to encompass his jolly round belly alone. Soon, Father Christmas is completely wrapped in clingfilm. It is not quite so good as wrapping Roy but it is enjoyable nonetheless and is certainly a feather in my cap.

Balbinus

#29
May 08, 2007, 04:39:02 AM
Either Zenobia or Warlords of Alexandria, both of which I think are of professional quality and put most published games to shame.

And, incidentally, there are a fair few free rpgs that put the published stuff to shame.

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