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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 4, 2008 3:22:44 GMT -5
I love and hate this board. ;D
Browsing a random thread I saw a post about an old game called The Fantasy Trip. I became obessed. I researched. I looked. I spent an entire night having dreams about how to adapt and use the system. I bid on eBay. Finally, I won. A copy of Melee and Wizard will be mine!
Then someone mentioned TWERPS. I had this when I was much younger. I never really realized the full potential, being bound by the word of the books back then.
D**n You!!
Again, I repeated the above steps. TWERPS will be mine!!!!
Disclaimer: I am rather drunk.
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Post by order99 on Mar 4, 2008 3:46:48 GMT -5
The poor lad's picked up MY disorder! My sympathies to you! If you like Melee and Wizard, you MUST accquire some GURPS sourcebooks...since TFT evolved into Gurps you can reverse-engineer a "GURPS Basic" for plugs-ins and, er, i'm just making things worse aren't I?  I'd better not mention any of MY favorite Ebay purchases either: Warhammer FRPG Talislanta TSR's CONAN! RPG Boot Hill (1st and 3rd Editions) GRIMM D20 Mini-game Star Frontiers no, i'd better just keep my mouth shut and- ............ AAUUGH!!!! We're DOOMED, Gamepunk26, doomed I tell yez.... |
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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 5, 2008 0:29:28 GMT -5
I have owned GURPS for years and have alternately had and sold many of the sourcebooks.
GURPS is a great game, but for me it has always broken down with more than three players. It is also difficult to teach to RPG noobs. These days i like the slimmer rulebooks and I don't know that I will ever go back.
Because T&T is easy to convert to as well, I have been using old D&D modules. I have to create everything from scratch anyway so I just use the maps and story for fodder.
As for the Fantasy Trip. My interest is more along the line of using it as a board game or generic fantasy mini game. I am mostly a mini gamer these days ( I have 5+ painted armies) despite the lack of interest at my gaming group and my growing T&T/RPG obsession of late.
Thanks for the suggestions.
What is GRIMM d20 mini-game?
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Post by order99 on Mar 5, 2008 3:50:19 GMT -5
GRIMM? Fantasy Flight Games put it out-they like to create D20 Mini-games for under $15 that pack twenty times the fun of D&D 3E into about 1/100 the space! You do need the SRD or a Rulebook for reference though.
GRIMM is a game about young PCs(with "Classes" like Jock, Nerd, Outcast etc.) entering the borders of the World that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote about-and in so writing, sealing that horrible place away from the world we know. It's a place where your brightest Dreams and Darkest Nightmares can come true (both at once sometimes) and Children are the natural Prey for Evil Witches, Talking Wolves and Black Swans...by wary, chary and lucky, and perhaps one day you'll make it home.
Other D20 Mini-games by FFG include:
Spellslinger (Wild Fantasy West)
Redline (Mad Max-style Apocalypse)
Mechamorphosis (Transformers with the serial numbers filed off!)
I'm not a D20 fan-and I LOATHE D&D 3E-but i'll run or play the FFG stuff in a heartbeat!
Oh, if you're a Minis Gamer, you might want a copy of the Lord of the Rings Wargame from Games Workshop...it's just OOP now, but Ebay should still have a copy or two, and most of your existing Fantasy Minis should work.
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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 5, 2008 12:41:23 GMT -5
I am a GW fanboy and have many of their products. 3 Warhammer 40K armies, painted. 2 Warhammer Fantasy Armies, every Mordheim gang, several Necromunda gangs, and many random minis and one-off games. The LOTR game looks cool, but my group is not playing it.
I am actually on a GW diet this year. The only minis I am allowing my self to buy are those to fill gaps in my already painted armies and I must buy them with intent to paint.
Of course this little money saving scheme has traslated into spending the funds on out-of-print RPGs.
I love FFGs board games and I own several. I will look into those games immediately.
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Post by rlotze on Mar 5, 2008 22:14:32 GMT -5
*sigh*
I wish I still owned Melee and Wizard. I houseruled the thing to death, but still, I owned it as a troubled youth and it still has a warm spot in my heard.
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Post by rlotze on Mar 5, 2008 22:17:57 GMT -5
And Star Frontiers...oh dear....another one of my early loves....
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Post by Fenris on Mar 5, 2008 23:09:38 GMT -5
And Star Frontiers...oh dear....another one of my early loves.... I still play Star Frontiers! ::wub:: I have the box set and all of the first set of modules. That's one of the first games I pull out when showing Newbies to the hobby the joys of gaming. Elegant does not begin to define the game system. It's been pointed out to me (repeatedly) that the games I love reflect the games of my youth, and may not appeal to the current generation the same way. Or to put it another way: I may sit in front of my Sega Genesis totally enthralled with Lunar or Sword of Vermillion, but a younger video gamer would not understand why I think those games are so great... not when Playstation 3 has graphics that are almost photo-realistic. Perhaps there's something to that, and perhaps I am doing the hobby no favors by showing new gamers the old games... perhaps I'd be better off introducing them to d20 system games, etc. And if so, that's sad, because Star Frontiers and all of those games are some of the best games ever made, in any generation. I played them then, I play them now, and I'll play them until they put me in the ground. |
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Post by order99 on Mar 6, 2008 3:56:56 GMT -5
For what it's worth, many of those Genesis games have better storylines, control interfaces and all-around Quality-there's more to a game than how processor-intensive you can get the graphics! One of my favorite Genesis games for example, was Pirates! Gold Edition...which was a direct port of Sid Miers' Pirates from the old Commadore 64! I had more fun with that game than anything I later found for the Playstation-it's one of the reasons I quit purchasing Gaming platforms, why buy the latest and greatest for $500+ when I can load up my Red Hat PC with Dosbox and load up on hundreds of free DOS games?
And Star Frontiers still rocks. Even if I ported it to the Amazing Engine system for fun two years ago( I like AM, though not as much as the T&T Engine obviously!).
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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 6, 2008 11:59:05 GMT -5
Star Control on Genesis is my favorite game ever.
I wish it was available to download on X-Box 360. Then mine might see some use.
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Post by Vin Ahrr Vin on Mar 6, 2008 16:39:03 GMT -5
quote author=gamepunk26 board=general thread=1204618964 post=1204618964]I love and hate this board. ;D[/quote] Hmmm. Well, I love and hate you posting on this board.  I have a similar problem. I'll be surfing some board and see some obscure reference to some game, then undergo an expensive and time-consuming quest to find it. Often it's a game I used to own, and suddenly I remember why I got rid of it in the first place... I'll have to look around. I'm pretty sure that you can download most of the Star Frontiers and TFT books online. Try this! for the Star Frontiers books. Not sure where I found the other stuff, though.... |
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Post by Fenris on Mar 6, 2008 19:05:31 GMT -5
I just got back from Ye Olde New & Used RPG Shoppe....
Just got GAMMA WORLD TSR box set (with the color bars system... with five modules included.
MERP 2nd Edition Collectors Edition
A sourcebook for creating spells for FUDGE.
New (in excellent shape) AD&D2e set, including Tome of Magic.
1e & 2e Forgotten Realms Campaign Sets (goes well with my 3e FR campaign book).
And a bunch of other stuff, too. ::whew!::
I went there for a new copy of Fantasy Wargaming that he was supposed to have... but Ye Olde Baight & Swytch! I get there and he's already sold it... but there's a lot of other great stuff....
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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 6, 2008 19:22:09 GMT -5
Where is this store?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2008 22:42:44 GMT -5
If you like Melee/Wizard, you may want to check out www.darkcitygames.com. They have for sale programmed adventures (solo adventures) in the same vein as The Fantasy Trip's solo modules. They also offer their Legend of the Ancient World rules free. LAW is basically Melee/Wizard with some house tweaks. Here's another page that has pretty pictures and a heavily house-ruled version of Melee/Wizard www.meleewizards.com/ |
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Post by gamepunk26 on Mar 6, 2008 23:47:23 GMT -5
Been to Dark City and their Legends of the Ancient World is what prompted me to get The Fantasy Trip.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, thanks to Fenris, picked up a copy of Demons by SGI. I saw it on Noble Knight for $70. I got mine on eBay $9.00. WOOT!
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