The Gaming Den

Yes, numbnuts, there is magic in CT and mecha and so on. Where does that imply you can create fully grown, trained, educated soldiers out of nowhere overnight? Because that's literally the backstory of the Nazzadi? The Migou decided to make a race of vat grown super soldiers and they were good to g...

No, I just tend to assume that I will be able to play by the rules well enough. My bannings were all either unforeseeable, or foregone conclusions: 1) WotC boards= bitching about Mod conduct, if I recall correctly 2) GitP= they want everyone to be good little kindergartners 3) Conservapedia= It's g...

To answer one question, yes there was a ringworld rpg done by chaosium before some idiot there opted to turn it from a rpg company that published various literary themed RPGs into the "Cthulhu game company".

It was done in the mid 80's and was pretty damn good, it's a RPG legend now.

Uh, sorry, but if you're doing 'realistic' cloning the clones would take just as long to grow and still need a womb to grow in, and would take just as long to mature, train, etc. I'm having a hard time comprehending precisely how obtuse and idiotic you're being right now, but among other things thi...

Really? I've been banned from at least two boards (I can only remember the two... oh, wait, I've been banned from Conservapedia too. Multiple times), and I've never joined a site with the post "Hey, do y'all ban a lot of people?" Well, see, that just proves you don't think far enough ahea...

If the general idea is to fight back, what's the fucking point if every pre-written adventure has a no-win scenario? Kind of mixed messages / false advertising if you ask me. This is far from unique to Cthulhutech. WoD is intended to be no-win, overall if not exclusively. If you're playing a garou,...

Even if it wasn't universal. That system is terrible. An amateur and an elite pc are on the same range. 3 to 18 +1(2) The only difference is that the elite character probably will roll the top of that range most of the time. It has variable difficulty, including difficulties that are above the rang...

Here's a quote from Greg Porter, designer of EABA: As the designer of EABA, I think that regardless of how maligned they might be, generic systems will continue to exist and prosper for reasons of simple economics. A game company is going to have problems coming up with a brand-new genre-centric rpg...

People decided to center their views of the game on rape camps and nothing else. That's gunna happen. Intesting view of Cthulhu though, that they're all big jelly-filled softies compared to forged steel, it's just that you have to not think about them too much or you end up a drooling mess with a d...

The rape bit was blown out of proportion, Isn't that was Akins and Mourdock are saying right about now? So, blown out of proportion, or it actually is a big deal and people really are legitimately offended by it? Don't compare me to republican retards. I said that the rape camp meme made sense in t...

I think that we should ban people who show up asking if we ban people. It seems like they're gagging for it. No, you're wrong. If someone got banned form rpg.net or some other site that bans people for damn near anytuing, they might want to ask, before inventing time in a site, if the site has a ha...

I agree with half the above. The rape bit was blown out of proportion, and was explained as the EoD needing more troops that voluntary mating could produce. People decided to center their views of the game on rape camps and nothing else.

Well, some people fell a universal system can't work, others think it can. I'm in the latter camp. It can't work. Let's consider several protagonists: Robin Hood Wonder Woman Aladdin Daffy Duck RoboCop Now let's consider a villainous obstacle like RoboCop's own ED 209. It has two miniguns on gyrosc...

Well, some people fell a universal system can't work, others think it can. I'm in the latter camp. Universal systems simply can't work without either leaning heavily on emergent fiat or clobbering other genres/playstyles. You will either run against a cognitive limit or a mathematical limit. For an...

Well, some people fell a universal system can't work, others think it can. I'm in the latter camp. It can't work. Let's consider several protagonists: Robin Hood Wonder Woman Aladdin Daffy Duck RoboCop Now let's consider a villainous obstacle like RoboCop's own ED 209. It has two miniguns on gyrosc...

Well, some people fell a universal system can't work, others think it can. I'm in the latter camp.

If you're willing to learn the EABA system, "Fires of heaven" delivers everything you've just asked for, in spades. You could have provided an link :cool: This seems to be a sample of the basic rules: http://www.btrc.net/images/stories/freedownloads/eaba/btr6101_sample.pdf And this a samp...

[*] Farscape: Each player controls one PC, and the ship and its pilot are very explicitly at the behest of the "crew", but there is no other crew besides the PCs. The PCs wander from place to place doing things kinda like it's a DnD campaign. or the LEXX where the ship is its own pilot, y...

If you're willing to learn the EABA system, "Fires of heaven" delivers everything you've just asked for, in spades. EABA has been out for nearly a decade and I have literally never heard a single person saying anything nice about the system. Now, doubtless part of that is because it's not...

You know, people talk about HPl's stories being all hopeless and mno win, with humanity doomed, etc. I've actually read HPL, and speaking as such, I think that take is at least partially wrong. Let's look at some HPl stories and see how they turned out, shall we? DUNWHICH HORROR: Two avatars of Yog ...

icyshadowlord wrote:If the general idea is to fight back, what's the fucking point if every pre-written adventure has a no-win scenario?

Kind of mixed messages / false advertising if you ask me.

And I'm agreeing with you, that's one of the game's biggest flaws.

Hicks wrote:They have something like that. It's called Etherscope.

There is a steampunk setting for EABA called "Verne".

Yeah, I keep thinking of a home-brew SF setting that feels like a mix of Firefly and the latest Star Trek movie with just enough X-Men thrown in to keep it really interesting. I want the campaign to mostly be an investigation-themed episodic thing with exploration of alien worlds, cultures, and thr...

If you want spaceships and ship engineers, the gaming world is pretty thin. There's a fair crop of stuff for Cyberpunk and there's quite a bit of things for Post-apocalypse (especially if you are OK with the conceits of the early 80s). But there aren't a lot of space ship centric games. -Username17...

You forgot a couple big flaws. One, the various types of PCs have a hard time interacting in a logical fashion. Tagers can't be mech pilots or soldiers, other PCs are usually mech pilots of soldiers, etc. Makes it hard to run a varied group without some twisting of the game setting. Two, most publis...