Have you run anything with Amber that wasn't Amber?

[RPGPundit]

Not just an alternate, some totally different game?

What was it? Fantasy? Sci-fi? Modern? superheros?

RPGPundit

[Nihilistic Mind]

*ahem* Hogwarts RPG...
Random fantasy setting one-shot.
A zombie horror one-shot.
Blame! RPG, based on the manga of the same name.

My group loves playing diceless. If there's a game out there that we want to play but we feel it would flow better with a diceless system, we base it on the ADRP system.
We usually simply change attribute names/add more attributes to reflect the important characteristics to play in the game's setting. We sometimes add a point-for-point 5-level skill system if it's necessary.

[Djoul]

I played some med-fan diceless games.
I had an Amber-like way of thinking about it.
Something like:This guy is the master with a sword. He can handle anyone and they need to be many and to be good to take him. This women his a  sorcerer she knows a lot about magic and she he's very convincing. This character has a good political knowledge of the country and he is very perceptive. With a sword he is quite good but not great.
So I had a hierarchy, I had domains were some were good and other not, but did not play with the same attributes and of course powers. Even the difference between attributes and power was removed. Hey by the way, I sometimes play in Amber like this!

[SaintAndSinner]

I ran a Narnia game at AmberCon NW once.  I hacked the stats pretty severely though.

[finarvyn]

*ahem* Hogwarts RPG...

I'd be interested to see what tweaks you used to play this.

I ran a science fiction adventure once where players were trying to solve the mystery of an explosion on a Lunar base. I put together several factions, each with their own agenda, and let the players stumble through all sorts of plots and sub-plots.

I discovered that I have problems with using ADRP for shooting guns and lasers, however. If characters are whacking each other with swords it becomes an issue of endurance, but it seems like shooting is more random and a lot harder to judge fairly.

[Arref]

I've used the ADRPG diceless to run:

30s screwball comedy

Star Wars

Modern Urban Faerie Romance



generally, the tweaks were easy to accomplish.

[crafty]

Does throwing my players (one of which acted stupidly) into Smurf land count? ( it was hilarious, I had them all singing "la-la-le-lala" for an entire evening....)

[JongWK]

I see that I'm not the only one who thinks that Star Wars can be done with Amber...

[Norbert G. Matausch]

Hi everyone, name's Norbert, I'm 37, German, and have GMed since 1984.
We got into diceless roleplaying when Erick published his wonderful Amber DRPG (and we've been playing diceless ever since).

We used the Amber engine for...
- Feng Shui
- Cyberpunk 2020
- Shadowrun
- Dreampark
- Castle Falkenstein
- Judge Dredd
- Warhammer
- Unknown Armies
- Das Schwarze Auge (Realms of Arkadia, a German rpg)
- Plüsch, Power & Plunder (my own published game, living teddy bears and such; don't ask )

...and it worked perfectly every time.


Norbert

[Croaker]

- Das Schwarze Auge (Realms of Arkadia, a German rpg)

L'oeil noir? My first RPG!!!!:keke:

[Norbert G. Matausch]

L'oeil noir? My first RPG!!!!:keke:

Really?
Vive la France! :cool:

[RPGPundit]

Welcome aboard Norbert!

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[Norbert G. Matausch]

Tip o' the hat to you, sir

[Ickywicky]

I played quite a few games with the diceless sort of ranking system that Amber has... but I found the biggest problem was that people just wanted to drop to 0 and then get neat gifts with their points... like a 50 point dragon pet.

But I want to play a game of Changeling based on Amber...where everyone thinks that it's a changeling game, but in fact it's an Amber game. Then powers start acting weird, and people don't get what's happening, as one of their own is changing the shadows of the realm, and then everyone becomes involved ina pattern war...

[gabriel_ss4u]

ooppss, 2x post