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Well-written RPGs

 
  

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Captain Zoom
20:50 / 14.05.02
I just got a copy of Pokethulhu from Dork Storm. I actually can't wait to play it.

Zoom.
 
 
gridley
17:50 / 15.05.02
"Keep on the Borderlands." It doesn't get any better....
 
 
BioDynamo
21:32 / 15.05.02

You people have exellent tastes in RPGs. I would never have thought anyone had ever heard of Kult, which I grew up just reading over and over again (by Target Games/Äventyrsspel in Sweden, Metropolis Games everywhere else), and never playing.

The gnostic worldview clearly described and shown as total horror, humanity as the beast that keeps itself imprisoned in lies it tells itself. Some of the text has suffered in translation into English, some of it wasn't that good to begin with, but I concider it the best RPG written.

On The Edge doesn't come close, too much slapstic comedy.

The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen is well written but very short, and bases itself more on the classic tales than the story telling game.

Amber is nice, but again bases itself on exellent outside material, the Amber-series of Zelazny.

White Wolf is often OK, like in Wraith, Ars Magica and some Mage.

Nephilim and In Nomine (SJGames-version) are just horrible, if we keep to the "occult" genre.
 
 
Coyote
21:45 / 15.05.02
Dreamlands - wow takes me back. I played Call of Cthulhu a few times as a teen then stumbled across the dreamlands supplement. I read it and just fell in love. Ran a diceless dreamlands campaign that lasted 2yrs. Stoned acid roleplaying in the dreamlands, wonderful memories. Bought Kult, read it through and scared myself. The little running story through the book was fantastic.

Uhm Werewolf the Apocalypse was a pretty good read and there was this great supplement book about a dark carnival that was a total joy to read.

Amber, one of the first diceless rpg's was a great read

RuneQuest the early edition was a brilliant story, especially the Troll and Chaos stuff. And of course there is Traveller. The great grand-daddy of Sci-rpg.

Not looked at any newer stuff, seems all to be corporate spawn a card game stuff.

There seems to be a lot of rpg'ers here. I would love to do a barbelith IRC real time rpg session. Any takers ?
 
 
rizla mission
09:10 / 16.05.02
The idea's been suggested before.. I still think it would be fun..
 
 
invisible_al
11:26 / 16.05.02
Just a small point about In Nomine, the game where I played is one of the few games where the players all sat round and had a philosphical discussion with a angel who was something like the Word of Stone. On the benefits of change and tradition and wether the players had done a good thing buy giving some local children sweets.
The system is a lot of hassle and needs a re-write but as a game concept its excellent. You have all the tension with the Christian faith and worldview to play with.
Plus if you fancy a break you can play demons as well.

Oi Coyote if you liked that Dreamlands thing, you might like to Check out Tribe 8 by Dream Pod 9 a canadian company. Its a wonderful shamanist post-apocalypse game, magic comes back to the earth and the spirits go mad. The magic they use is all about dreaming and connecting with the unconciousness of the world, the river of dream. You too can chat with the spirit of a Mountain and his daughter a river, with the flipside being the spirits trapped in flesh, Z'bri, not nice people as the name suggests. In fact Kult has a lot of similarities with these guys.
Nice political background as well, all the tribes that the players are exiled from at the start of the game are Matriarchies, as the Spirits which lead the tribes are all female (the only male one died in mysterious circumstances).
Try it you might like it :-)
 
 
Laughing
13:31 / 17.05.02
Just bought Nobilis, big and fancy hardcover.

It's amazing. The background text, the rules text, the little snippets in the margins. Wow.

And the artwork, while sparse, is fantastic as well, especially the piece titled "The Power of Murder".

Even if I never actually play this game, just owning the book is enough for me.
 
 
MJ-12
16:24 / 17.05.02
"Keep on the Borderlands." It doesn't get any better....

Well, there was the elegant simplicity of Creeks & Crawdads...

"Even a mutant, super-crawdad is still pretty stupid."
 
 
Captain Zoom
21:53 / 26.07.02
I just got De Profundis. Excellent. I cannot wait to play. May wait till the end of the summer when a number of my friends will be returning to university, thus giving me a reason to send them letters. This is much like what was attempted down in the Creation, though I can see now how physical letters work better than virtual ones.

Well written and kind of creepy. Even if you don't play the game it kind of works as a good short story. I'm putting it on my list of recommendations.

Zoom.

(Keeping the RPG conflict alive on Barbelith)
 
 
invisible_al
00:54 / 27.07.02
Word, Brother.
 
  

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