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The idea is that the players get their powers from a cosmic accident, when an ambassador for a Level 4 civilisation (ominipotent powerful beings) has his ship gunned down by accident in Korea. The ambassador gives powers to the representatives of mankind that he meets by accident as he dies. I was t...

So, first, you need a more specific pitch. What's the moral tone? Where's the realism dial set? How powerful are Supers compared to conventional forces? etc. The moral tone is going to be grey, mostly. The supers will appear during the cold war and the characters are expected to play an important p...

Im thinking about running an altenrate history supers game, starting with the Korean War of 1950. The idea is that the characters will be among the world's first supers, taking part in the offensive (they haven't picked sides yet, but i'm pretty sure they'll pick the US). The game will be loosely ba...

The original Fallout games, with all their flaws and imperfections (and monstrous bugs as well as rushed development in the case of the 2nd one) were excellent games. Most people recommend them as examples of pc gaming as far as rpgs go and frankly, you'll be hard pressed to find better than those g...

A Man In Black wrote:A Reinheitsgebot that's about to tip off open (civil) war. Complete with kegbusting, beer smuggling, and the Oktoberfest Massacre.

Please elaborate. Sounds awesome

I'll start: -A multiversal war across universes with groups of adventurers working together to fight a common foe. -A group of meta temporal archaelogists from the End of Time trying to find safe refuge from the End of All Things. -A small group of Mages, fighting against an invading alien force tha...

There was nothing offensive about Mage. The idea that reality is shaped according to belief is a philosophical concept and one that is kinda cool at that. What kind of pro-intellectual idea could you come up that would be just as cool as the paradigm idea? Also, it is my personal belief that thopugh...

Why cant i stop thinking about the Men from NOWHERE and the other weird villains from Grant Morissons doom patrol? For example the Hollow Men seem to act like the Scissormen from the first story arc and Dorothys imaginary friends. Red Jack is very much a good example for a Doubt supervillain. The Cu...

I honestly believe that you can make a insanely serious game based on an insane setting idea like rifts.

Examples include notable comic books such as Scud: The Disposable Assasin and the Filth.

First of all, happy new year from Greece, its 2011 by the time this post is up on the boards. So, I was wondering. this is the second decade of the fucking 21st century right? So wheres all the sentient robots and the holographic projectors and the Matrices and the solar colonies and the free energy...

FrankTrollman wrote:Can I buy pot from you?

-Username17

Yes. It happens to contain trace amounts of Babel Vista software. It also comes from the future.

Lets, for a moment there, consider Mage the Ascension. The game is set in the 90s and as awesome a premise as it might have, its a bit behind the times. One of the Time orf Judgement scenarios was the Revolution will be Televised, portraying the utter victory of Technocracy in the Ascension war. Thi...

Is there a site where we can check out Battle Mech rules? Apparently they fit Behemoth (with a few tweaks) and Id like to check them out.

How about lasguns are super rare and their ammunition is nigh-impossible to produce plus theyre exotic weapons from bygone times vs swords are long pieces of metal you stick in anything? You dont really have to go on about the practicality or trappings of shields and lasguns. If lasguns are very har...

The cards idea sounded Viable. If you determine it randomly like that, or with the roll of a die, you dont have to consider facing or other such bullcockey and make the game more complicated. For example, a behemoth pup is built with, lets say, 100 structure points. The Humanoid structure costs 20 p...

So, the first part of making a Behemoth is to decide on its structure. Each body type has a certain point cot (BESM works for that) and the rest go to other body parts. The behemoth should get one schtick that goes with its Breed. For example, Godzilloid Behemoths should have fire breath. Tarrasquoi...

I honestly have a question: When have you EVER used cantaurs? What is it about their phsyiology that makes you wonder about their tribal or social standing with other races? Why is it important? Centaurs are nonsensical mythological half-and-half beings that should not make sense. Seidus fall into t...

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser are also a must read if you want to touch up your fantasy style. If you really wanna trip balls though, theres nowhere to turn than China Mieville.

Also, Zelazny's Lord of the Light

So uhhh...Tolkien gets you laid huh? Guys, this is not about whether Moorcock would kick Tolkiens ass in a fight (because he tottally could). This is about fantasy elements in general. We can revamp it, change it or reimagine it as much as we like but it all boils down to what the fuck we want from ...

Behemoth powers include: -Solar powered rays. The accumulators are based on their wings, backs or carapace. -Shedding minions. The Behemoth can generate a number of lesser versions of himself and shed them off its skin to swarm the opponent. -SuperFog. The Behemoth can generate fog from its nose, sk...

Josh_Kablack wrote:Nah, since the serial in 1988 centaurs have totally been able to hover.

And since the umpteenth season of Xena, centaurs can make love to our women and make healthy centaur babies!

I figure that if you replace "components" with "internal organs" (such as "radioactive fire organ" and "regenerator" and "radio transmitter from mind-enslaving alien overlords") and build a really simple musculoskeletal model, this system could work...

First of all, SenZar was ridiculoyus awesome but unplayble and silly. Its the kind of game id run with my friends in super nerd mode and it has a certain 70s wrongbad quality that you cant find in other games. Except for Rifts, that is. Secondly, you claim to want discworld. In your first post, you ...

And more diamond armies of bikini princess riding war flamingos into LSD fueled laser battles. Michael Moorcock. Fuck yeah. Double PS this could be a real campaign you know, I even have slogans "What Your Fantasy Needs is Moorcock", "Put Some Moorcock Into Your Fantasy"... they ...

Anyway, the first thing you have to decide is whether the monsters are giant all the time like Godzilla or Gamera, or grow to appropriate size like they were in Ultraman or Power Rangers. The second thing you have to decide is what range of size monsters you intend to have. The adventures of 4 mete...