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Post by osu »

Hello there. I've been lurking these forums for about an year now, and love the heated discussions.

Has there been a Legend of the Five Rings or Legend of the Burning Sands OSSR? I have played them for a while and am curious what is the Den's opinion about it.
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Post by Lago PARANOIA »

@osu: Which version? There's been a (sadly unfinished) Legend of the Five Rings d20 monster manual that talked about the metagame/metaplot.
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In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Post by osu »

3rd edition, since I've never played the d20 version.

Personally, I loved to play courtiers/diplomats and the system's high lethality.

I'll search this review you mentioned, thank you.
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Post by Silent Wayfarer »

I kind of want someone to do an OSSR on Heavy Gear 2e. I was quite heavily invested in it sometime back, but now I just kind of want someone to take it apart objectively.
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Post by Reynard »

Traveller (Classic, Mega, or Mongoose; or all three)

I lurked a bit, but didn't find reviews of any version.
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Post by Archmage Joda »

I personally would love to see an OSSR of White Wolf's Dark Ages Fae or Mage
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Post by Lago PARANOIA »

I would like to see a review of either the Star Wars TTRPG or the original Mystara campaign setting. For great nostalgia!
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.

In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Post by fectin »

I might do Mystara over Christmas.
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Post by Omegonthesane »

Reiterating the request for someone stupid enough to do Gehenna,
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Omegonthesane wrote:Reiterating the request for someone stupid enough to do Gehenna,
I'll do Gehenna when one of you finishes the Farcast review. I don't even care if it's a team effort.
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Post by Lago PARANOIA »

Since Robin Law comes up on these boards a lot, why not a review of his HeroQuest game written more than 15 years ago?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.

In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Post by Longes »

I'd like to put up a request for L5R OSSR. The pseudo-japaneese RPG written by John Wick should be an excellent material.
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Post by angelfromanotherpin »

They've done GURPS Cyberpunk. They've done Call of Cthulhu. Can they handle GURPS Cthulhupunk?
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Post by Orion »

There's much demand for an L5R review. I'm read parts of various L5R books and played the card game, plus have all the d20 Rokugan stuff. Anyone want to split a review with me?
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Post by Ancient History »

I'll review anything if the Farcast thread is finished. Hell, I'll run a PbP for an Expedition to the Cave of Tits in a system of your choice if it's finished.
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Post by Longes »

So, AH is signing up to run FATAL? Or RaHoWa? Or Exalted: Lunars?
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Post by Schleiermacher »

Pfft. Why would anyone want to play those games anyway?

No, I'm wondering whether it's worth boning up on Eclipse Phase so I can see what AH makes of the Cave of Tits in Nobilis 3E.
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Ancient History wrote:I'll review anything if the Farcast thread is finished. Hell, I'll run a PbP for an Expedition to the Cave of Tits in a system of your choice if it's finished.
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Post by Ancient History »

I would regret the offer if I thought any of you were up for it.
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Post by fectin »

I could still make a comeback!
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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Post by Heaven's Thunder Hammer »

Anyone up for an OSSR of FFG's WH40K Rogue Trader?
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Post by Ancient History »

If you finish Farcast...
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Post by Longes »

Can we get OSSR Aberrant? A WW rpg so obscure I couldn't even find a pdf of it must have something terrible inside.
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Heaven's Thunder Hammer wrote:Anyone up for an OSSR of FFG's WH40K Rogue Trader?
Even Dark Heresy isn't 10 years old.

We've discussed DH and the 40k games a bit here. I have a lot of practical experience with long-running games and I came to hate the system. If I had it to do over again I'd just seriously consider cribbing SR4's dice pool system and making relatively minor adjustments to it.

This is why when DH 2nd edition decided to basically be Only War with a setting rehash it felt like curb-stomping babies, because if there's ever a system that needs to be burned to the ground and started over again, it's the 40k system.
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I'll review anything if the Farcast review is finished. Anything.
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