what was the superhero RPG where you had to balance your superhero strengths with Achilles Heels?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
champions
― miss danilelle steven and her clitoral stimulator, away! (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Champions was more calculus than RPG.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
just bought my 10 year old the basic set for his birthday! and dungeon tile kit! Dar Feldo, half-elven magic user, lives on.
― p.j.b. (pj), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
character building was super fun though
― miss danilelle steven and her clitoral stimulator, away! (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes it was. Playing it sucked balls though.
Speaking of super-hero games, I left Villains & Vigilantes off my list. That was the first supers game I really loved. And the creators just put out a new edition a few months ago.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
gary gygax
― dayo, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Friday, 15 October 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
also u forgot the "!"
yo is it true did gygax! get sonned by a nerd kid after a D&D beef?????
― dayo, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember Champions because someone talked me into giving it a whirl, we spent three hours building characters (which was fun) and then never played again. Sounds like I didn't miss a thing.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 15 October 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Was MechWarrior any good? My Battletech group tried to integrate it into a few campaigns, but that always quickly degenerated into skipping MW in order to blow shit up with giant robots armed with lasers.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 15 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I really liked Champions, but the most fun bit was designing the characters--with a bit of thought you could create a character who could do ANYTHING (except time travel). I ran a campaign for quite a while, but ignored all that hex-based nonsense. But I deigned about 1000 villains I never got a chance to use.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Friday, 15 October 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
incredible thread btw.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
jjjustin asked about the "near impossible module that had a sinister looking mirror in it which basically just whammo killed anybody who touched it," and i dunno. but the entirely fucking impossible tomb of horrors does have this:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/TombofHorrorsSpheresmall.jpg
a giant wall-mounted thing, the blackness of whose mouth is a "(fixed) sphere of annihilation." and yeah, it just whammo kills anybody who touches it.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 October 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
^ nice trampier-looking art tho
gygax! on TOH (S1):
It was a long time ago when the Tomb of Horrors first made its appearance. Before I put it into manuscript form for publication, i carried the scenario around with me in by briefcase, so as to be ready for those fans who boasted of having mighty PCs able to best any challenge offered by the AD&D game. After an hour or so of time spent within the weird labyrinth of Acererak’s final "resting place," the players whose characters were survivors typically remembered suddenly that they had pressing engagements elsewhere. Clutching their precious character sheets, they fled the table. Those who had already lost their vaunted PCs had previously departed, muttering darkly about "impossible death traps." Had I been mean and cruel, I would have required participants to hand over their character sheets upon the demise of a PC, torn them up, and then smiled wickedly as I asked for the name and address of their DMs so as to pass on the news of the sad loss. But I am very kind at heart.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 October 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
To follow up with Tuomas' point about Scandinavian LARPing having a better gender balance than, say, North American, I present you with this classic of the Internet, Blue & Red Link:
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/03/07/female-link-cosplay/
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/love_a_zelda_cosplay_girls_gal.php
http://www.hemmy.net/images/games/linkcosplay04.jpg
True, it's more cosplay than larp, but shut the fuck up.
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Er, I didn't say anything about gender balance in North American LARPing. If you bothered to read my post, it says:
"I don't know how it is in the USA, but in here the LARPing is a much less of a male-centric hobby than paper-and-pen RPGs, in fact I think there are more female LARPers than male ones. So yeah, I think LARPers get laid more often than other gamers."
Basically I was assuming it must be similar in the USA too, but I didn't want to make any definite statements because I know little about the North American LARPing scene.
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hum·min·a
[huhm-in-a]–interjection
1) yeah
Also, yeah.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
XPOST!
is this an classic of the internet?
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/rikkusmall.jpg
should probably be.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
great thread
love hearing about the earliest generation of gamers--that mid-70s 'moment' when geek/nerd culture was emerging, hippies reading tolkein, civil war gaming turning into fantasy ripoffs, phone phreaking. wild!
― max, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
me personally i spent a lot of time reading the manuals and imagining what it would be like to play an ad&d campaign. i got really into magic though, next best thing i guess.
― max, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
About tomb-of-horrors type stuff - I DMed my dad a couple of times as a kid and the way he'd prepare for missions, and do everything so carefully, was so unlike the modern style of play - like, the first thing he'd do every mission was to make a butterfly net - he and his gamer friends would touch nothing they hadn't identified, etc etc...
Kinda amazed how many ilx MTGers are crawling out of the woodwork but that's another thread!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 15 October 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oooof, i just remembered something super embarrassing:
how i tried to get my step-grandmother and mom to play a game of brand new AD&D with me because i didn't know anybody else who played, and they were usually pretty cool.
they both refused and i was reaally and so i went outside and hid in a tree.
i was 13 :(
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Friday, 15 October 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Funnily enough my little brother went outside and hid in a tree when I killed his PC once at about the same age.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
A Separate Saving Throw
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 October 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
well played, +30 xp
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I am so tempted to go to a bookstore tonight and snag some of this stuff again, just for the pure hell of it.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Even more tempted now that I've checked back in and saw that Wizards has brought back the red box!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
A request: if anyone ever comes across any Space:1889 stuff for cheap let me know. I always wanted to check that out but I've never come across any of it.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 October 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a company putting out retro modules now, but I can't remember their name.
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Using 180gm virgin vinyl was a bit much but still...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha. Hearing about the retro mods makes me want to buy some stuff even more!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I want a reissue of Empire Of The Petal Throne please!
― sleeve, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
red box is back???
― faust LARP (s1ocki), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They're calling it D&D Essentials or something. Stripped down version of the 4th edition ruleset.
Sadly, not the same as the D&D/AD&D split. I wonder if my friend stil lhas the Companion rules? I have the Basic and Expert rules kicking around here somewhere.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 October 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
attn jjjusten: what was the name of that Gygax! (I think?) choose-yr-own-adventure-on-steroids book you had
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
A key skill.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 October 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Leave unmarked space for naming by roads, rivers, towns and anything else unmarked. The swamp witch moved to the coast, but characters can still seek her out and go tramping through bayous to get to her.
how i tried to get my step-grandmother and mom to play a game of brand new AD&D with me
O god, you've just reminded me that I actually did manage to get my grandmother to play in a Fighting Fantasy (the super-simple rpg, not the gamebooks) adventure once. She probably found it a refreshing change from the usual task of supervising my brother and me on a Sunday while we obsessively watched Transformers cartoons.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
contenderizer, thats totally the one i was thinking of. infuriating. thx for helping dude, now that I know the name I found the version I played which was:
http://xenocorp.net/images/jpgs/s1_tomb_of_horrors.jpg
which instantly filled me with nerd rage when i saw it.
HI DERE i am trying to remember - there were two series like that, but the totally intense one had the companion spell book where you had to memorize three letter codes and shit. 4 books, all sequential parts of an adventure, and the last one was 800 some pages iirc. it was pretty fucking awesome, wonder if i still have them somewhere, will be pissed if i dont.
― Cap'n Save-a-tanist (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
did everybody cover their hardbound d&d books with brown paper grocery bag dust jackets or was that just everybody i played with?
― Kerm, Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
they were all Steve Jackson related - the kinda straighforward ones were the FIghting Fantasy ones, but the super hardcore ones were the Sorcery! series
so fucking dope
― Cap'n Save-a-tanist (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcery!
Wizard Books is making the Sorcery! series available for the iPhone and iPad, starting with Shamutanti Hills for a 2010Q2 release.
o_O :D
― Cap'n Save-a-tanist (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
oh FUCK YES
between this and discovering Shining Force FOR IPHONE, this is like the awesomest year for iPhone games tailored directly to me
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorcery! was so awesome! Man I loved the illustrations that series had. I had the spellbook and everything. An iPhone app version would be great, it would keep me from cheating again and again.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ha I cheated mercilessly just because I wanted to know more of what happened
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd like to meet the kid who stopped all seven serpents without cheating.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link