Bedlamdan posted:

Lodoss War was apparently /heavily/ embellished compared to the actual play, in the original game Parn died like a couple of sessions in and Deedlit looted all his stuff before pawning it off.

theironjef posted:

Also it includes phrases like "CAST OFF THE YOLK OF GOVERNMENT RULE"

Doresh posted:

Preferably one you wear on your wrist like a watch.

unseenlibrarian posted:

Yep. BRP based, though it had a big book of conversions.

Selachian posted:

The Thieves' World boxed set was pretty awesome, though. Besides stats for the various characters and things in the books, it included a huge map of Sanctuary, tables of random city business and encounter generators, building floor plans, and for some reason a copy of Poul Anderson's essay "On Thud and Blunder' which, as it happens, goes nicely with the current discussion on realism in fantasy.

PurpleXVI posted:

Middenarde

Arrows that hit targets may be recovered by picking them up. A Visual Acuity check (DC 16) will return a number of missed arrows equal to the roll minus the DC, plus one. A ranged weapon will take damage as though it hit even if it doesn’t hit, so roll the weapon’s damage dice regardless.

Waffleman_ posted:

AKA half of Cinemasins' MO. (The other half is popping a boner literally anytime a woman is on screen. Not even like scantily clad or doing a sexy thing. Just a woman.)

Waffleman_ posted:

He's literally admitted that he writes them while scrubbing through the movie.

The Sin of Onan posted:

Do it the other way round. Make a Legacy of Liches who get their immortality by hunting down shadow-birds, trapping them with light or fire, and then huffing them like petrol fumes. There's a hosed-up antagonist for your cabal.

Serf posted:

NWS for nudity and general grossitude

Young Freud posted:

marshmallow creep posted:

This is from months back, but I'm reading the thread and wanted to say that I'm intrigued about a game where every Bethesda glitch you can imagine is happening in the "real" world. The players obviously can tell something is wrong, and in their investigations discover that the world was supposed to end centuries ago, but questing heroes have stopped apocalypses so many times, essentially extending and "patching" the universe to keep functioning, that the code that handles reality is coming apart at the seams, and they need to decide if they're going to keep going patch-jobs to stave off the end, or if perhaps there's a better solution in starting with a fresh build.

Hostile V posted:

Yeah that's kind of the general problem I have with Sorenson's work (cough Inspecters cough). There are some hard settings details, then a disconnect between the details and enforcement that puts all control in the GM's hands and that's really it. Sometimes it does read a lot like "I have no idea what to do with this, I guess I'm just building the framework for the right person to come along to use it" and admittedly that's a designer standpoint I kinda prefer as opposed to when the designer is so far up their own rear end with plot and world details that they can't even see the player anymore. It's a hard line to balance.

theironjef posted:

Hey, how about we do the thread's namesake? System Mastery presents FATAL. The first one, specifically.

Lichtenstein posted:

As I got reminded today Mr. Talsonian is/was working on the Witcher tabletop RPG, I thought of giving the original



a FATAL & Friends treatment.

Gonna have to give it a proper skim to see if bad mechanics and nice art is enough to make it worth everyone's time.

(Yes, it was supposed to be a tie-in to the utterly terrible movie/series)

LuiCypher posted:

Cheesetator

Darth Various posted:

Oh hey I had this laying around.

theironjef posted:

nothing builds a rhythm like the beats of conversation.