OSSR Request Thread

silva · Post by **silva** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:28 am

fectin wrote:I'd love to see Danger Patrol sometime.
http://www.dangerpatrol.com/

+1 to that.

The other games by John Harper would also give interesting reviews (Lady Blackbird, Agon and World of Dungeons come to mind). Sadly, his most exciting game to me - Ghost Lines - feels like a half-baked Apocalypse World hack at this point. I wish he turned this into a Kickstarter and finished it.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:30 am

Working on a Danger Patrol review now.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:30 pm

Is there an Unknown Armies OSSR already in the works?

silva · Post by **silva** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:32 pm

+1 to Unknown Armies OSSR too.

Dipsomancy is the best magic school ever.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:40 pm

I would like to see an OSSR of the dark eye. (4ed)

Some teasers:
resolution mechanic: 3d20 (for skills)
Every skill has three attributes associated.
Every dice needs to roll under his attribute.
If you have for an example an skill of 5 you can pretend your attributes are five higher (not every attr. 5 higher, but one 2 and one 3 or any other combination)
Some things are more difficult than others. On those you get an malus on your skill check.
What if your malus is higher than your skill?
Example malus 10, skill 5. --> you get -5 to every atribute!

In combat you only roll 1d20 but both attacker and defender roll.

Character generation was stolen from GURPS, but made worse.

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:23 pm

Yeah, The Dark Eye deserves an OSSR so very, very, very much. I actually started writing a mocking review for 3rd edition once, but I know too little of the system (and its convoluted, weird history) to make it funny. Maybe someone else is able to carry that torch.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:41 pm

I don't think you can do an OSSR in context without having played the Realms of Arkania trilogy. I think that around 95% of non-German speakers were introduced to The Dark Eye's game system via that game. And... it might just be the limitations of cRPG adaptation, but while those games are still highly enjoyable in a masochistic kind of way (with the exception of that shit-sucking last series dungeon and ending) they don't paint a kind image of the original system.

Antariuk · Post by **Antariuk** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:11 pm

There is no kind image to be painted... like, at all. I don't know Realms of Arkania, but no matter how hilaribad it was, The Dark Eye will make you scream in agony. Especially if you include some comments or views of its grognard audience, which makes D&D grognards look like cute hippies.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:37 pm

Okay, as the Keeper of the Review Threads Thread...

...I gotta see this.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:57 am

My english isnt Good enough for an OSSR.
I have the german rulebooks, would be willing to drive to Frank if he wants it (no idea how his german is).

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:57 pm

Korwin wrote:My english isnt Good enough for an OSSR.
I have the german rulebooks, would be willing to drive to Frank if he wants it (no idea how his german is).

Please think about reviewing it anyway. You can use simple words and simple sentences. I would rather read a simple review from an expert than a complex review from a non-expert.

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:03 am

Would anybody consider doing a review of the Immortals Handbook and the accompanying monster book?

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:09 am

Wiseman wrote:Would anybody consider doing a review of the Immortals Handbook and the accompanying monster book?

Are we talking about the pre-3E one, or the "Even More Complete Joke Book" one?

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:43 am

The Even More Complete Joke one. I wasn't aware that there was a pre-3E one.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:53 am

The book that gave us the Neutronium Golem? http://s180.photobucket.com/user/ExarKu ... 1.png.html

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:52 am

I just noticed that its Attack bonus is about 20 RNGs less than its AC, and its save DCs are about 15 RNGs higher than its save bonuses.

EDIT: The author's math is based on the foundation that 2 level 20s are equal to a level 40 -- i.e., that CR is linear and not exponential.

I'm sure the results of this are similarly hilarious throughout the book.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:33 am

Well, one of its DCs is Str-based and one is Con based. This means that they differ by 12+ RNGs.

That image also gives the Earth's HP as 123k.

Dean · Post by **Dean** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:45 am

I only realized today that a Demon: The Fallen review is the OSSR that would probably be the best one possible. That book is dense with fuck.

TheFlatline · Post by **TheFlatline** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:29 am

I would love to see a Drunken Angry Frank review of Big Eyes Small Mouth, or even better, Sailor Moon RPG (based on the same BESM Tri-Stat system).

My only memory of the Sailor Moon RPG was that I had like one attack that actually did anything, if it hit it did a massive amount of damage, but I had to roll under like 4 on 2D6 to hit, and I could only use the attack once per day.

Other than that I could make peoples' hair ruffle dramatically in the wind, and I think that was the only two abilities I had.

BESM I played a few times and while I hate the tri-stat system with a fucking loathing that surpasses words, BESM could be sufficiently high-powered enough to be interesting.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:40 pm

TheFlatline wrote:I would love to see a Drunken Angry Frank review of Big Eyes Small Mouth, or even better, Sailor Moon RPG (based on the same BESM Tri-Stat system).

While I'm not Frank, and he'd probably give it both barrels as it deserves (what with basically not being a game system and really being an excuse to go "Hey look, you were all made with the same basic points value, don't blame me if you're wildly different in ability!"), I have to say...

The Sailor Moon splat was deeply disappointing. I was hoping for all kinds of awesome. I put up with the references to Serena and the Negaverse, even though a fair penalty for using those terms would involve a local radio weatherman, a goat, a very short billiard cue and several pairs of rubber washing-up gloves. There basically wasn't anything to it though, no great ideas for how players could work a story into the actual Sailor Moon universe while using their own characters, the power write-ups, such as they were, were lame and boring... it was just bland and bad.

BESM in general, well, I ran a convention one-shot of it, with pre-made characters that were all basically of equal value but with different flavours of combat power and with different "Unlock this option in the story" abilities. It was called Kurukurupa: Doubutsuen no Ninja*, it was good. Silly but good. I also ran BESM as my first tabletop campaign, and it was a trainwreck. Partly because everyone came to the table with different expectations and we just rolled them together like a Katamari, partly because two of the players were going through a phase of "every character of mine has to be evil or at least a total shit" while the other two... did not... part of it was my own inexperience... and a huge part was the fact that BESM is not a system and the whole thing would work better as MTP, perhaps with the occasional "roll for a 1-5% chance of us having to decide on something weird or dramatic to happen".

*Insanity: Ninja of the Zoo. One guy spends a lot of time in Japan, as part of his job, and he loves the place not like a weeaboo, but as someone who's been there, made friends there, knows the good places to visit and so on. Every convention, he runs a game with a Japanese name, and the con orgs try to memorise the name by the end of the weekend. Most people call it "Peter's Game". This was my response one year.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:40 pm

TiaC wrote:Well, one of its DCs is Str-based and one is Con based. This means that they differ by 12+ RNGs.

That image also gives the Earth's HP as 123k.

Wanna know what's in this book series, killinates the fuck out of Neutronium Golesm, and is way the fuck less than CR 9721, even by this guy's numbers?

An Aeon (from the series' PHB equivalent). Speed large enough to move action out of Spell Stowaway range, an the ability to effortlessly move around in time to do whatever the fuck. Also has saves that effortlessly overcome the NG's saves DCs and AC high enough to ignore the NG's attack rolls. And I do mean ignore, because the Aeon gets to declare what all the dice rolls are in that encounter.

The author can multiply and add numbers, but can't actually compare them and figure out what they mean for the game.

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:36 pm

The funny thing is, the neutronium golem can still be beaten, or at least stopped, by a forcecage and a surprise round.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:05 pm

Wiseman wrote:The funny thing is, the neutronium golem can still be beaten, or at least stopped, by a forcecage and a surprise round.

If you want to permanently beat it, you'll want to throw in 4-6 Prismatic Walls around 4-6 Walls of Force, and put permanency on them. (40 hours of Forcecage is probably enough time to re-prepare the spells)

You also want something to deal with the gravity aura because coming within 200ft of it = DC 461 save or fall unconscious, and 60ft is DC 461 save or die, but I'm sure it's possible for a 20th level party to pull it off.

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:19 pm

You can send a projected image in to do the casting for you with no risk.

EDIT: or just timestop

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:36 pm

So here's a question: How low can we go and still beat this thing 75%+ of the time?