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- Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
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- Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
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Alrighty, on the the monster entries that in most other 2nd edition products would be at the end of the book! Arcane, The The merchants of Venice Venus SPESS. 12-foot tall skinny blue bastards that are happy to sell ships and spelljamming gear to almost anyone, save the Neogi. Where they get all the...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:43 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
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Avast ye, pedantic scalawags! http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/684/0/17.1_tr_online_piracy.png Today we'll start looking at Chapter 3: Spacefarers. Humans Most numerous sapients in space. They tell us that 90% of humans are free agents, not bound to a lord, mirroring the Age of...
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
@Frank Why you’d want a base seems to be understandable enough - ships are cramped, lack the comforts of home, don’t have room for libraries or workshops or chapels or swimming pools full of electrum coins. Why they chose to talk about building castles in space is an incredible oversight. It’s almos...
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
Avast, me hearties! Let's take a gander at the ships and see what we find. We're looking at the ships here and looking for ways in which they do (or don't) make sense, with respect to the goals and rules of the setting. Along with my own color commentary, of course. A couple of quick terms I should ...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
Chapter 2: Spelljammers Some more music If you ask a random group of gamers what comes to mind when you say the word “Spelljammer” you'll probably get a lot of blank looks. After all, we're talking about a product that debuted almost 30 years ago. Gamers who cut their teeth on 3e/3.5 were probably ...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
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Yes, it's definitely one of the more incoherent parts of the setting - on one hand, Spelljammer is very much supposed to feel like a new frontier, with lots of unexplored areas. This fact neatly explains why there's so many pristine ruins and untapped mercantile opportunities for you exploit, and wh...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
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First off, I would like to apologize for an error I made in my first section. 1989 saw the release of the 3-ring binder MOBSTEROUS CUMPENTIUM; the MAN-YULE would not be released until '93. This is especially embarrassing, considering the damn thing was sitting right next to me when I wrote that firs...
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32007
[OSSR] Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures In Space Boxed Set
Hello! I'm Woot, some random person of no account, who has wasted many hours over the last few decades sitting around tables playing pretend, engaging in other school or work activities while imagining playing pretend, or reading about people playing pretend and/or mechanics for playing pretend. Wit...
- Sun May 25, 2014 8:12 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Starbound: Terraria in SPAAaaace
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14987
- Tue May 13, 2014 3:17 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Starbound: Terraria in SPAAaaace
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14987
Development feels like it's stalled, but the mod makers have been keeping the ball moving. It's *still* grindy bullshit early on, but things like Pixel Store let you pretend you're playing a 2D version of The Sims, and stuff like Frackin Flora and EggstraClucks make it somewhat more worthwhile to ac...
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Game rules that you adopted as default ?
- Replies: 23
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From d6 Starwars: if the players score a hit on a stormtrooper/TIE fighter - don't bother rolling for damage. The foe just goes down. I've adopted that rule for low-powered mooks in GURPS and Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green as well. I'm a proponent of the idea that combat should be FAST, and anything I ...
- Tue May 14, 2013 1:32 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Roguelikes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11283
I've been playing The Sewer Goblet, a Wu-Tang Clan themed roguelike. The "classes" are different members of the Wu-Tang Clan. Not amazing depth, for a roguelike, but fun for what it is. [/url]
- Tue May 14, 2013 1:29 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Freeware PC Games
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10290
A few come to mind: The Ur-Quan Masters , a port/remake of Star Control 2, a wonderful Sci-fi RPG/exploration/action game in the vein of the venerable Starflight. Tales of Game's offerings, particularly Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, a Final Fantasy-style JRPG about Charles Barkley. Surreal and v...
- Fri May 10, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2730
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]The Illithiad
- Replies: 44
- Views: 36586
I also seem to recall that Illithids destroying the sun was part of their Great Diabolical Scheme in the Spelljammer Astromundi Cluster boxed set, back in '93 - a beauteous clusterfuck in it's own right. That might be where the ideal originated. To summarize: the Cluster was defined by the struggle ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:20 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2730
Next session! A leaves this city for a ranger conclave. All the rangers in the region are in attendance, and the basic challenge the rangers are facing is that orcs are coming, in small groups, from the western lands and arriving in the city, seeking passage over the sea to the orcish empire on the ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:55 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
- Replies: 4
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So, next session rolls around. E's character hasn't done much yet, so she jets jumped in an alleyway by some Orc slavers, who recognized her tattoos. Big fight breaks out, and B's character overhears this, and comes running, spear drawn. E's main attack involves grappling her opponent's head one rou...
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:35 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2730
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:46 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2730
[GURPS 3rev] Muttering about my campaign
There's not enough people talking about GURPS, damnit! So I'd like to rectify that by posting about a recently started campaign I've been running. We're fresh off of a Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green game run by yours truly, a GURPS Superheroes game run by the player I call SD, and a 2-year Forgotten Re...