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- Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Post-Apocalypse Flavour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2270
It depends on your definition of post-apocalypse. Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, and Eclipse Phase fit the bill but they aren't defined by Mad Max post-nuclear hellscapes (well Earth is Terminator-land in EP but the colonies are pretty diverse). That said, I do like Dark Sun, as it's a nice departure fr...
- Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:00 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Comics Wank]What It Would Take To Get Me To Buy Marvel/DC
- Replies: 260
- Views: 43303
- Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: LASER PONIES
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1541
- Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
- Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
the question of who, if anybody, is going to pick it up... Topps still owns the license so I see only two realistic options and two far shots: Realistic 1. Fantasy Flight as they have the capital, marketing and production capacity. 2. FASA. Paying licensing fees for the property he created might be...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
I would be fine with Weisman in a managerial role but he hasn't touched SR as a TTRPG since, what, second edition? It's not 1991 anymore. Coordinating with multiple product lines is a nightmare. SR needs a clean slate both in terms of fictional continuity and game mechanics as well as fewer fingers ...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why mecha?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 18773
Given that warfare has evolved from (mostly) bombing/artillery/strafing/dogfighting/trench warfare to (mostly) SWAT style urban encounters there's no genuine need for heavy armor, let alone heavy armor in a humanoid form. Heavy armored vehicles are essential for the current cutting edge of urban wa...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why mecha?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 18773
Given that warfare has evolved from (mostly) bombing/artillery/strafing/dogfighting/trench warfare to (mostly) SWAT style urban encounters there's no genuine need for heavy armor, let alone heavy armor in a humanoid form. Some sort of Iron Man/Bubblegum Crisis-style anti-bullet/anti-rocket getup wou...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Forcasted Technologies in Science Fiction
- Replies: 127
- Views: 17440
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: ST/WH40K wanky fanboy question.
- Replies: 570
- Views: 57332
- Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Cthulhutech
- Replies: 83
- Views: 37528
Despite being a skill-based system with no levels, Cthulhutech nonetheless has no-shit character classes that you get to pick from. The character classes are about as balanced as RIFTS classes - which is to say that some professions come with a giant fucking robot and some of them come with a perso...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Cthulhutech
- Replies: 83
- Views: 37528
Dhoanoid PCs aren't 'allowed' to behave in an altruistic manner even though the powerful mages who founded the good-guy Eldritch Society were cut from dhoanoid cloth. Tagers aren't 'allowed' to be soldiers because they might be discovered and dissected by the United Earth Government. And yet an intr...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SF RPGs?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7423
When we're talking about Traveler are we referring to the core rule set or the OT Universe? I haven't played Babylon 5, Hammer's Slammers, or Judge Dread, or even the OTU, but 2300AD scales the OTT space opera shenanigans way, way back. Friendly lion aliens aren't a thing and space combat in 2300AD ...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SF RPGs?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7423
As for CthulhuTech, I was going to play in a game of that years back, never got off the ground, how does that game fair? I recall it being rather badly designed, and maybe something about getting a mecha being impossible, magic taking forever or some such. Also, could you explain the shadowrun bit?...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Science Fiction RPG Preferences and the Genre Umbrella
- Replies: 66
- Views: 16176
I'm a big fan of space-based hard science-fiction, specifically of the CJ Cherryh-style of politics, trade, space station life, and combat. Traveller is the only game that I've found that touches on these. However the rules are so incredibly generic that there's a lot of MTP needed to get the right ...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SF RPGs?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7423
I enjoy Traveller 's 2300AD hard sci-fi setting and am working to get a new game going. I've recently taken up TechNoir which is a cyberpunk/post-modern/detective noir game and Corporation which is a sleeper far-future post-cyberpunk game. I ran a CthulhuTech game last year which is a Cthulhian fant...
- Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
I was paid for the three dinky projects I worked on that were actually published. I put quite a bit of time into a Seattle source book PDF for the 'Missions' line - it had some bits about police rivalries and a Jane's-style guide to the UCAS military presence in Seattle including the Metroplex guard...
- Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:38 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Tricks Or Comics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2818
- Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
By 3rd ed. (and I think even as early as 2nd) SR had ditched the glam-rock vibe and gone full bore techno. I know people who started playing SR with 4th ed. and find the 1st ed. material to be amazingly hokey and disconcerting. The only people who care about out-of-date visual tropes are in their mi...
- Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
Gibson/Sterling-style cyberpunk has been hit with the double whammy of: 1. not aging well as a sci-fi theme and 2. tropes and technologies emerging into our current day, thus losing their luster To be fair, every near-future sci-fi writer at the time was predicting a USSR/European land war so I can ...
- Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 953196
After 'Attitude' was released I sold all my SR stuff, some of it going back to my days as a 1st ed. player in junior high school, and used the money to buy an iPad. I knew if I stuck with the game I would be too tempted to give CGL my money to get a 'fix'... even knowing the clusterfuck process of h...
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Comics You Should Be Reading
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11560
Having read through Transmet two or three times, I think it's a bit overrated. Jamie Delano's 2020 Visions (recommended) covered a lot of the same scary-future-is-today-plus-old-man territory without the obvious Hunter S. Thompson riffs. I prefer the manga Eagle (also recommended) for my journalist ...
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The best RPG book cover ever
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4502