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| Role Playing Games!; Because e-wrestling wasn't nerdy enough! | |
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| Nevermind... | Feb 6 2012, 07:39 PM Post #16 |
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A Pimp Named Slickback
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I've got several source books for the Street Fighter rpg, and it was a really cool world and setting. The original fighter characters in some of the books were cooler than the video game characters. I made a character that was a over the road trucker, trained in sumo that used his rig as a travelling ring. I tried Exalted, and I thought it was cool. I have the core book for it. But I just could never get a grip on White Wolf's system, in any incarnation. I did play in a D & D 3.5 campaign with some local guys after I moved to Terre Haute, but I had to stop. I liked most of the guys all right, but all they ever did was argue. Plus, the dm's house was always filthy and I couldn't stand going there anymore. I have that WWF rpg around somewhere, and it's where Nevermind and "Ladykiller" Chris Tyler both were born. Aaron loved reading rules and would buy any cheap rpg book he could get his hands on. I still have a ton of them in storage. |
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| rcole | Feb 6 2012, 09:04 PM Post #17 |
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Dr. Weird
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*glances back at the shed in the back yard, the one full of RPG's and other nerd-fest stuff. Trying to remember without actually going back there... * Paranoia: Several editions of it. Great beer and pretzels games. All Flesh must be Eaten Call of Cthullu Ninja Burger: The RPG Rifts 7th Sea Legend of the Five Rings (Samurai awesomeness... taking roll and keep but making it deadly as all hell) D&D First Edition AD&D 2nd Edition D&D 3rd and 3.5 Feng Shui (Great system and fun as hell) WWE Smackdown (d20) WWE Role-playing Game Star Wars d20 Star Wars d6 Spirit of the Century (Same system as Dresden Files... which leads to.... ) Dresden Files RPG Classic World of Darkness, including... Vampire the Masquerade Werewolf the Apocalypse Mage the Gathering Changeling the Dreaming Savage Worlds: including Deadlands Reloaded Necessary Evil Rippers Savage World of Solomon Kane Sundered Skies Pulp era source books and then there are two or three more shelves of books I never ever go through, but I picked them up in various sales and eventually want to go through a few of them. some games I never ever get to play. And then a few crates of board games... should Hero Quest be included? |
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| orklad | Feb 6 2012, 09:11 PM Post #18 |
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The Luther Burger
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Mage: The Ascension, not the Gathering (that's Magic). And heroquest should certainly be included. |
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Orklad or Don, Lord of Pudding | |
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| rcole | Feb 6 2012, 09:12 PM Post #19 |
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Dr. Weird
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Meh.. oh then let me add "Highlander: The Gathering" to that list. =) Yeah, it was fan-created but it existed. Oh, and Risen. |
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| orklad | Feb 6 2012, 09:16 PM Post #20 |
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The Luther Burger
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Oh! I'd forgotten about the White Wolf fan expansion for Highlander...but yes, I had that as well. |
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Orklad or Don, Lord of Pudding | |
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| RedRajah | Feb 6 2012, 09:16 PM Post #21 |
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Shocked Woona is Shocked
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Wasn't it called "Legacy"? 'Cause I knew someone who had a copy of that... Other games in my library Theatrix Bureau 13 Feng Shui Children of the Sun The Everlasting Red Dwarf Various D&D editions Sailor Moon (BESM system) Midnight |
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| rcole | Feb 6 2012, 09:27 PM Post #22 |
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Dr. Weird
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I watched the Midnight movie recently. |
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| texanspaniard | Feb 6 2012, 09:36 PM Post #23 |
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The Luther Burger
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True story: I always, ALWAYS, looked down at the folks who played the D&D stuff and all those RPG things when I was growing up, especially in High School. I never had any interest in any of that stuff whatsoever. Years later, around 2000, was having an online conversation with Wallie and the subject of RPGs came up and I went on my rant against all of that stuff and he told me the sad, sad news.. Pedro... E-w is an RPG. I was STUNNED! *sobs* Felt dirty and sad inside. *sobs* *sobs* But yes, to date e-w and the Other World comic book thing Wallie tried to do a few times are the only RPG type things I've ever done. Though in 2001 and 2002 I did have some offers to do some art for some RPG type books or something, which Charles in 2001 actually tried to help me out with, giving me info on fantasy type weapons and stuff cos I had no clue about any of that junk. But I ended up passing up those opportunities back then due to school and other stuff. So yeah... I almost could've drawn some of the stuff seen in those books! *sobs* |
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| Amor | Feb 6 2012, 10:30 PM Post #24 |
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Vannesa
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Man, after looking at some of these lists I feel like a newbie... D&D: I'm a 3rd Ed loyalist, though I'm currently in a 4e game. It's probably technically more balanced, but it just feels kind of... meh. Primetime Adventures: A fun, very rules-lite story game in which the players are TV show characters, complete with fan mail and statted-out story arcs. A great creative game, and I'm still trying to angle for a second season with my local group. Mutants & Masterminds: A breakable but awesome superhero RPG. This campaign was going great until the DM (me) completely ran out of ideas. (Is it just me, or does breakability seem to directly correlate to fun?) Call of Cthulu: Elder Gods fall, everyone dies. This one only gets dragged out at Halloween now. One poor PC has been sitting at one sanity between sessions for several months. Assorted homebrew abombinations: My brain... my brain... |
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| JeremyS | Feb 6 2012, 10:47 PM Post #25 |
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MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
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Someone needs to run an online campaign of something using a chat browser or IRC. I call not it because I already did it twice. |
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| Nevermind... | Feb 6 2012, 11:19 PM Post #26 |
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A Pimp Named Slickback
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How are Rippers and Sundered Skies? Sundered Skies is an alien invasion in a fantasy setting,right? Or is that Evernight? I always think Hellfrost looks cool. Is Necessary Evil any fun? It certainly looks cool. |
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| Nevermind... | Feb 6 2012, 11:26 PM Post #27 |
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A Pimp Named Slickback
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To me, Call of Cthulhu was always about either heroic sacrifice, or sheer survival. The innate hopelessness of doing battle with the Elder Gods was an integral part. After all, that was Lovecraft's whole point. |
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| The DeWolfe Pack | Feb 6 2012, 11:26 PM Post #28 |
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The Luther Burger
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I've long ago transitioned from RPGs to mostly board games (I could geek out on you re: board games for a long time, but that's another thread), but I'm surprised to see no one seems to have mentioned Earthdawn yet. Am I the only one that liked that system? Last time we played, a few years back, I had an awesome troubadour character who used to blow off adventuring so he could busk around town. He would steal from other party members while they were at the inn, and then cast illusions if he got caught to throw blame on NPCs. Once he spent an entire fight hiding in a ditch, emerging at the end only to cast the killing blow by stabbing a guard in the back with a stiletto he hid in his boot. He once let the rest of his party languish in jail for a week because he didn't want to part with the money it'd take to bribe the jailers. (He wasn't in jail with them because, as I said earlier, he'd blown off the adventure that went sour so he could go to a tavern in town and try to play for money.) That was probably my most enjoyable character to roleplay ever. |
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| rcole | Feb 7 2012, 12:36 AM Post #29 |
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Dr. Weird
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Rippers is fun monster hunting in Victorian England. Evernight was the invasion game... Sundered Skies is kind of a steampunk fantasy setting in a world that's already been destroyed. Floating islands and such... Forgot to add Slipstream to that list, which is Flash Gordon-style pulp sci-fi (as opposed to hardcore sci-fi). Necessary Evil is good with the right players... or it freakin' sucks with the wrong ones. You know... that one guy who just doesn't GET the setting and decides he's going to whine the whole session about wanting to kill the other players because he's a villain, as opposed to being Earths' last reluctant hope. |
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| Picky | Feb 7 2012, 12:47 AM Post #30 |
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Now let us retreat wench, for tonight, we feast on snobbery...
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I liked Dark Conspiracy though it made a better Shadowrun supplement in my opinion. TMNT and Robotech were my favorite Palladium ones (but Pall only had a fun alignment system). And I forgot my favorite game of all time: Over the Edge. So much you can do, fantastic CCG attached later on and character. So much character. Too bad my work schedule is so messed up or I'd consider running a game. |
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Have I told you how much I loathe your continued existence today? Proud member of the Quote Pyramid Builders Union Local #317 | |
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