OSSR Request Thread

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:48 am

Anyone interested in doing one on Spelljammer?

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:57 pm

Spelljammer is fairly gonzo. That makes it hard to criticize, because "Anthropomorphic British Space Hippos" is a feature, not a bug. It's like critiquing fetishwear.

norms29 · Post by **norms29** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:15 am

I'd like to see a Den look at Don't Rest Your Head, it's pretty rules lite, so it'd mostly be a setting review.

Or maybe Whispering Vault that'd be fertile ground for the den treatment.

or I suppose if anyone has any other horror games with bizzare and hyperspecific premise and settings.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:10 pm

fectin wrote:Spelljammer is fairly gonzo. That makes it hard to criticize, because "Anthropomorphic British Space Hippos" is a feature, not a bug. It's like critiquing fetishwear.

OSSR's don't have to be excessively critical to be entertaining. Maxus's Dragonmech has a lot of gushing in it, but I'm still really enjoying it. There's criticism too which isn't 'hey guys, this setting is crazy', but more on the lines of, 'this contradicts what the book said earlier about this'.

I'd also love to see one of Hackmaster 4e.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:18 pm

Don't get me wrong, Dragonmech has its flaws. But it was written by some decent people -trying- to turn out a good product. It doesn't have a lot of the built-in prententiousness or fuck-you-plebe of, say, Unknown Armies.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:22 pm

I actually really liked Hackmaster 4e for what it was, but that would be a beast to review.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:26 pm

Any reason why?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:37 pm

Have you looked at that book? That is a thick-ass book! With dense text. Even the fucking Hacklopedia of Beasts ran to something like ten volumes.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:53 pm

I hadn't!

Okay, yeah.

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:37 am

I'd be interested in a review of Weapons of the Gods, Monsters and Other Childish Things, or Nemesis (available for free if anyone feels like diving into it and reading 52 pages). Mostly because they have a somewhat bizarre resolution mechanic.

Silent Wayfarer · Post by **Silent Wayfarer** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:59 am

TarkisFlux wrote:I'd be interested in a review of Weapons of the Gods, Monsters and Other Childish Things, or Nemesis (available for free if anyone feels like diving into it and reading 52 pages). Mostly because they have a somewhat bizarre resolution mechanic.

WOTG has so many damn decision points that it's nearly impossible to resolve on PBP. ANd the source material (which I read and summarized as a service to the community who wanted to know more but didn't speak ching chong), is pretty damn retarded.

I'd like to ask for Earthdawn to be reviewed, since I don't think it's been done.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:40 am

Re: Earthdawn - which edition? FASA, Living Room Games, RedBrick or RedBrick Revised? FASA II isn't out yet.

Silent Wayfarer · Post by **Silent Wayfarer** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:38 am

Ancient History wrote:Re: Earthdawn - which edition? FASA, Living Room Games, RedBrick or RedBrick Revised? FASA II isn't out yet.

The very first one. Not sure if it's FASA or Redbrick. I am very clueless on this.

For that matter, has anyone ever done SR 1e? I have this fascination with original editions of the games, because by definition, an original edition has subsequent editions and was probably good enough for people to invest in putting out a second+ edition. The latter may not be good, but the original most likely was.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:50 pm

Koumei wrote:If anyone even has it - and you should feel bad if you do - I'd like to see Orpheus* get seven layers of shit beaten out of it reviewed objectively.

*It was released very late into the life of oWoD, in fact it might have actually been released afterwards, as a theoretically separate thing. But it uses one flavour of oWoD rules, and it's supposed to be Wraith 2.0 - you have people who go into trances and project ghosts for hours at a time, you have people who go into cryochambers and project ghosts for weeks at a time, and you have people who are dead and project ghosts forever. You belong to a corporation which fucks you in the (rear) end, and have literally one power each. It is so fucking awful that I recommend it only be run for people like Rupert Murdoch to play.

+1

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:28 pm

after this comment on dumpshock:

Well, having glanced through it at lunchtime, this definitely doesn't look great. I mean, we've got repetition of a lot of the usual weapons and features, without much apparent care for balance or logic (mono-garotte, 18F availability, COMBAT mono-chainsaw, I repeated COMBAT-specific mono-chainsaw, availability 9R...), the face-palm-worthy armour (somehow, chainmail, which IRL is 100% incapable of stopping any kind of bullet at all, has AV8 against bullets... almost the same as armour vest! Similarly padded bloody leather is AV7... let's not even start on the hardened armor), then there's the tactics chapter, where you have to score ludicrous numbers of successes to pull of even very basic combat maneuvers that I guarantee anyone who has ever played a squad shooter can pull off (let alone someone who has ever done paintball!), then we go on to witness the majestic procession across the African plains of a gigantic herd of called shots, weird shots and inexplicable shots, each and every one with it's own rules, frequently using the same terminology to indicate different penalties and the like! Many of these shots are very poorly described, to the point where it is completely unclear what they do, and some of them have some very unclear rules associated with them!

in this kinda would be funny if it wasn't so sad thread:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?s ... try1287570
i was shortly considering requesting an OSSR or Drunken Review of Run and Gun for SR5 . . but no, i'd be probably taken to court as the first person to kill somebody else by destroying their body with alcohol . .

And . . the vehicle repair rules seem to be very bad as well . .
10% vehicle base cost per damage box taken and vehicles having more than 10 boxes means that yes, repairing vehicles can and will be more expensive than buying a new one . .

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:43 pm

Longes wrote:
Koumei wrote:If anyone even has it - and you should feel bad if you do - I'd like to see Orpheus* get seven layers of shit beaten out of it reviewed objectively.

*It was released very late into the life of oWoD, in fact it might have actually been released afterwards, as a theoretically separate thing. But it uses one flavour of oWoD rules, and it's supposed to be Wraith 2.0 - you have people who go into trances and project ghosts for hours at a time, you have people who go into cryochambers and project ghosts for weeks at a time, and you have people who are dead and project ghosts forever. You belong to a corporation which fucks you in the (rear) end, and have literally one power each. It is so fucking awful that I recommend it only be run for people like Rupert Murdoch to play.
+1

Frank and I are gearing up for a side-by-side OSSR of Orpheus and Geist, but it's gonna take a couple weeks because Frank has exams and I'm fiddling with a side project.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:56 pm

Give it everything it deserves. I played a game of that once, run by a girl I liked which explained way too much. She and one of the players were everything wrong with the fans of WW, and had their special snowflake characters from each others' games star as cameos in their own games...

I was less than impressed when I saw the stuff you could do.

momothefiddler · Post by **momothefiddler** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:14 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:The extremely crazy game World Tree (which I really should review at some point) is an all-spellcaster world, where everyone has at least some spell points and the vast majority of people know at least a few spells. Although, most people are sensibly practical individuals and learn such spells as 'stack dishes,' and 'dust room,' with maybe a childhood folly like 'conjure ice cream' or 'Boone's Accurate Loogie.'

I don't know if this properly qualifies as an OSSR, but you should definitely review it, angelfromanotherpin.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:55 pm

Ancient History wrote:
Longes wrote:
Koumei wrote:If anyone even has it - and you should feel bad if you do - I'd like to see Orpheus* get seven layers of shit beaten out of it reviewed objectively.

*It was released very late into the life of oWoD, in fact it might have actually been released afterwards, as a theoretically separate thing. But it uses one flavour of oWoD rules, and it's supposed to be Wraith 2.0 - you have people who go into trances and project ghosts for hours at a time, you have people who go into cryochambers and project ghosts for weeks at a time, and you have people who are dead and project ghosts forever. You belong to a corporation which fucks you in the (rear) end, and have literally one power each. It is so fucking awful that I recommend it only be run for people like Rupert Murdoch to play.
+1
Frank and I are gearing up for a side-by-side OSSR of Orpheus and Geist, but it's gonna take a couple weeks because Frank has exams and I'm fiddling with a side project.

Cool! I actually kinda like Geist, despite all its flaws.

malak · Post by **malak** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:37 pm

Antariuk wrote: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.

This. Holy shit...germans. What can you say.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun May 04, 2014 2:52 pm

How about reviewing Dungeon World?

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun May 04, 2014 3:56 pm

How about not wasting any more virtual ink on non-games?

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun May 04, 2014 4:28 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:How about not wasting any more virtual ink on non-games?

Unknown Armies and Exalted: Lunars got a review

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun May 04, 2014 5:02 pm

And Fection promises to finish his review of Farcast! ...one day...

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun May 04, 2014 9:56 pm

I'm contemplating doing a couple of quick OSSRs on ephemeral products like single issues of game magazines. The kind of thing I could knock out in a single evening after work. I know I've done InQuest and White Wolf Magazine before, but any further interest in that sort of thing?