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Alien Rope Burn posted:Nah, Brave New World never got much traction due to its relatively limited character generation compared to its contemporaries (i.e. Champions and its descendants). 8one6 posted:Eclipse Phase is my favorite game I'll never get to play because none of my friends have any interest in running it and their only interest in playing it is just the surface level "action movie but with robots and talking apes" parts.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Nah, Brave New World never got much traction due to its relatively limited character generation compared to its contemporaries (i.e. Champions and its descendants). There's a reason the game line never finished; it's basically the forgotten game as far as Pinnacle games go. It has fans, but far as I've seen when most people talk about liking it, it feels like they enjoyed the narrative or setting more than the actual game itself. The fact that there isn't a Savage Worlds version speaks volumes about its legacy as a game.
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It doesn't help that Brave New World felt that "Immune to damage" and "Really good at hacking, no like, really good" to be roughly equal and balanced powersets, oh, and then there was a dude who made a deal with the devil and could do both.
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Well, also superhero RPGs have rarely been sold on original setting material anyway, despite the constant attempts to do so. Most of the notable "superhero settings" that I feel like actually have some reverence (like Godlike) are more superhuman-based sci-fi than traditional superheroes. Which, admittedly, Brave New World verges on, but not quite. It's mostly intensely 90s in both the comic and RPG sense.Hunt11 posted:I guess that is a good way to check if somebody is actually reading your 20 pages of backstory. Throw in some really creepy poo poo and see if they comment on it. Seriously though, 5000 words is insane, especially if you are in a group. As in I doubt there are many gms who want to read about 40 pages about the characters in the campaign before the first session. I used to do application vetting for a online freeform superhero game or two, and there are absolute horrors that reside in the corners of this hobby. Ignorance may be a blessing.
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I remember one of those freeform supers games that didn't care about what you wrote or how well it was phrased, it only measured whether an app was complete based on how large your text file attachment containing the app was. They'd auto-reject anyone under 10KB.
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unseenlibrarian posted:It doesn't help that Brave New World felt that "Immune to damage" and "Really good at hacking, no like, really good" to be roughly equal and balanced powersets, oh, and then there was a dude who made a deal with the devil and could do both. Except the devil guy was basically not good at either one, IIRC.
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Yeah the Covenant were way better than Bargainers at everything. Hell, even that one Bargainer who made pacts with an angel instead of a demon was better than your average Bargainer because the angel would give him power in return for good deeds instead of the Bargainer trade of magic/totems for petty cruelty/heinous acts.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It's mostly intensely 90s in both the comic and RPG sense.
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I'm now required to leave this for Jef, just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_KZdyWkoA
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The loud music drowns out the dialogue but it can't do the same for the awful production value.
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Did Burcato pitch Powerchords as being system agnostic? Because lol at spending 7 years writing an RPG when you don't even include a rule set with it.The Chad Jihad posted:Idle thought, is Federation and Empire a candidate for this thread or would that strictly be Prime Directive Go for it, I'm dying to hear more about the Star Fleet universe after Jef & Jon tore into it.
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unseenlibrarian posted:I remember one of those freeform supers games that didn't care about what you wrote or how well it was phrased, it only measured whether an app was complete based on how large your text file attachment containing the app was. They'd auto-reject anyone under 10KB. OH christ, I remember that site. I have a friend who occasionally staffs at sites like that, and she's shared some fun stories. Mostly pretty tame, but there's still something amusing about the guy who threw a poo poo fit because they wouldn't let him paste a katana to Doctor Strange, then apped a non-communicative, animal-intellect velociraptor shortly afterward still has me scratching my head.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I'm now required to leave this for Jef, just in case: Waiting for the narrator to offer me a pizza roll. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I'm now required to leave this for Jef, just in case: I love this so much. I've been trying to find a copy of the full-length one for the Great War of Magellan pilot but have had no luck. Also hell yeah do Prime Directive. It was a really really early one for us and we're still all grumpy and serious in that episode. That book sucked though.
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The Chad Jihad posted:Idle thought, is Federation and Empire a candidate for this thread or would that strictly be Prime Directive Whether you like it or hate it, we are dumb for consumption in this thread. Post away.
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Funnily enough, Brave New World was relatively popular at my gaming club back in the day (a few years before my time), enough that my friend who's got a dozen homebrew systems made his own version of the game (heavily modified through years of playing) that we're still playing to this day. Among other mechanical changes, there's a poo poo-ton more power packages, actual rules for Alphas (now called Asura,s with Delta being Devas, due to wanting to make the game his own thing), keeping two dices instead of one thus making difficult rolls actually possible, etc. Instead of evil fascist Kennedy, the gameplay is centered around various spy agencies (usually MI6) fighting against a new wave of supercriminals.
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Bieeanshee posted:OH christ, I remember that site. (Dr. Strange can't handle sharp objects reliably anyway, it's why he became a wizard!)
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It was a Marvel based game, and he wanted to give Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme... a katana. And the training to use it. I'm not even sure he offered a rationale.
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Every gamer has, at some point, wished to play a katana wizard.
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Obviously the dude was a big fan of What If #83, where Dr Strange is in fact a ninja with a katana who trained Daredevil instead of Stick.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Funnily enough, Brave New World was relatively popular at my gaming club back in the day (a few years before my time), enough that my friend who's got a dozen homebrew systems made his own version of the game (heavily modified through years of playing) that we're still playing to this day. Among other mechanical changes, there's a poo poo-ton more power packages, actual rules for Alphas (now called Asura,s with Delta being Devas, due to wanting to make the game his own thing), keeping two dices instead of one thus making difficult rolls actually possible, etc. And there it is. The thing that would actually get me to play BNW, because don't think playing SHIELD doesn't sound exciting more than whatever BNW is supposed to be.
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I remember when somebody applied for the sentient embodiment of the force of gravity in a game I staffed at. It was, of course, a guy with a trenchcoat and a katana.
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I want to play a sentient katana/trenchcoat partnership that possess losers and drives them around like the title characters in Bad Boys 2 drive cars.
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JackMann posted:Welp, I know what my next Sgt Nerd column's going to be about.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I used to do application vetting for a online freeform superhero game or two, and there are absolute horrors that reside in the corners of this hobby. Ignorance may be a blessing. That sounds like storytime.
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Nessus posted:(Dr. Strange can't handle sharp objects reliably anyway, it's why he became a wizard!) I dunno, he's been quite handy with a battleaxe more than once in the current run. edit: No, really, that's a big part of how his iconic appearance is depicted these days. Foglet fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Feb 16, 2018 |
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He should be using Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins.
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Pfft. Like he'd stoop to the minor arcana.
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He already had too many coins and cups; that's why he crashed his car.
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Halloween Jack posted:He already had too many coins and cups; that's why he crashed his car.
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Hostile V posted:Found a video about your character. https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/272n0d/the_jungle_rot_kid_on_the_nod_by_philip_jose/
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I'm a digital savage of the cyberjungle.
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Inescapable Duck posted:I'm a digital savage of the cyberjungle. My section of the Information Superhighway has been adopted by the University City Kiwanis Club #91.
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Leraika posted:That sounds like storytime. Not really? There isn't a lot more to say to than that. He wanted to play the concept of gravity with a katana, I told him no, and it's been too long to remember much more accurately. I could go on about bad characters I had to deny, I suppose. But it's been many, many years since I was foolish enough to wallow around in the dumpster of fandom those games tend towards, and it's probably more suited to something like the catpiss thread, should I ever catch up with that.
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But really, I mixed all these ideas up and want to play cyberpunk Tarzan.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Not really? There isn't a lot more to say to than that. He wanted to play the concept of gravity with a katana, I told him no, and it's been too long to remember much more accurately. I could go on about bad characters I had to deny, I suppose. But it's been many, many years since I was foolish enough to wallow around in the dumpster of fandom those games tend towards, and it's probably more suited to something like the catpiss thread, should I ever catch up with that. It is a shame modding PC applications is not as story rich as one thinks it might be. Like, 90% of the bad ones are just that, bad. I did it for a WW site for a good while and most of them were things like either super ancient and powerful or wanting to play a member of the clan who is hideously ugly but they of course are beautiful for reasons.
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Dawgstar posted:It is a shame modding PC applications is not as story rich as one thinks it might be. Like, 90% of the bad ones are just that, bad. I did it for a WW site for a good while and most of them were things like either super ancient and powerful or wanting to play a member of the clan who is hideously ugly but they of course are beautiful for reasons. I mean, I have a lot of bad stories to tell, that's just not one of them. Also I have mixed feelings about beating this sort of dead horse, knowing how self-indulgent I can be with my characters. Everybody wants to play the cool rad thing they had in mind. The real issue comes to a head when they don't know how to read the proverbial room.
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Dawgstar posted:It is a shame modding PC applications is not as story rich as one thinks it might be. Like, 90% of the bad ones are just that, bad. I did it for a WW site for a good while and most of them were things like either super ancient and powerful or wanting to play a member of the clan who is hideously ugly but they of course are beautiful for reasons. I have to concur, and most of the time - the rejections isn't due to hilaribad apps, but more often due to players either making characters that do not fit the game, or because they had gained a reputation for being creepy or a pain in the rear end to deal with.
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Years and years ago, I hung out on a forum dedicated to savaging bad character descriptions and arguing over the validity of roleplay and garbage like that, until I realized that... y'know? gently caress it. Sure, the Baphomet-thing with beachballs tits and three cocks long enough to bruise its lips was gross, and the disease-ridden supervillain with lovingly detailed symptoms was fishing for admiration for not being pretty and perfect, but who the gently caress cares? They didn't. They were just looking for excuses to shout at each other. Like the time someone asked if it was really, honestly valid for someone to roll maxed Manipulation+Seduction to force another player to have TinySex with them on a non-consent WoD game. At random. That really should have been a no-brainer, but no. God, no.
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Dare I ask what TinySex is?
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