HyveMynd
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Post by HyveMynd on Apr 1, 2012 17:21:15 GMT -8
I completely lost my shit laughing when tyler busted into JiB's hockey coaching story with that "...and if you lose, you're not my son" line. Also, sorry to be the bearer of bad news tyler, but that 'Viking Lunch' Tappy mentioned seeing while in Japan didn't have anything to do with the Norse peoples from the 8th to 11th centuries. 'Baikingu' (バイキング pronounced like "bye-king-goo") doesn't mean Viking; it means a buffet style meal, usually all you can eat. The sign below is probably similar to what Tappy saw. In a nutshell, the manager of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo travelled to Sweden in 1957 and was impressed by smörgåsbord style restaurants in hotels there. He brought the idea back to Japan, which didn't have buffet restaurants at the time, where the idea took off. There was one little problem though; "smörgåsbord" didn't sound catchy enough, and was too difficult for Japanese people to say. So, like always, they changed the word to something shorter, something that they liked better. But why 'viking'? Because the 1958 Kirk Douglas movie "The Vikings" was in theaters at the time, and since both vikings and smörgåsbords are from Northern Europe they must be connected somehow, right? That was enough for the Japanese, and the name has stuck ever since. As a huge fan of Viking Metal, you can imagine the strange looks I get when I tell people what I enjoy listening to. "So... you like... food music?" is a question I often get asked, and then I have to explain that "No, viking doesn't only mean a kind of restaurant." It's pretty annoying. You can also imagine my disappointment when I experienced my first 'viking restaurant'. I was all "Oh hells yeah! Let's go!" only to be taken to a crappy little all-you-can-eat pizza place like the one in the image above. Who puts corn on pizza! If I had been a real viking, shit would've been broken in my rage. I'll try to get a picture of the giant, mechanical octopus puppet that's on the side of a restaurant here. It's not the one Tappy's talking about, but it might be close.
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Apr 2, 2012 6:26:54 GMT -8
Poles. And they serve pizza with sauces like tomatoe sauce, garlic sauce, cream sauce and spicy sauce. Eastern Europe also seems to favour knife and fork over how pizza was * meant * to be eaten. Our Italian player won't eat pizza here. Well, that's an overstatement. He is VERY PICKY with the pizza here. He also cooks. So God bless that man when he's responsible for dinner! What other band of blood thirsty munchkins can brag an actual Italian Tiramisu baker within their party?
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Post by Stu Venable on Apr 2, 2012 6:27:02 GMT -8
Kirk Douglas' "The Vikings" is an awesomely bad film.
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HyveMynd
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Post by HyveMynd on Apr 2, 2012 17:11:43 GMT -8
Kirk Douglas' "The Vikings" is an awesomely bad film. I'll have to give it a look see. It got a 7 out of 10 rating on IMDB.com. I completely forgot that I was going to comment on the Furry thing towards the end of the episode. Whoops. I meant the dirty monkey fucker thing. Heh. If you want to do dirty monkey fuckers in space with a ravaged Earth that's been quarantined, why not use Eclipse Phase? It's a fairly complex system with lots of crunch, but it has practically everything the emailer was looking for, mechanic and flavor-wise: - It's hard sci-fi set in our solar system (no FTL) but we've discovered Pandora Gates to a number of extra-solar planets;
- Earth's been quarantined and is completely off-limits after a disaster that wiped out 96% of the population;
- psionics exist (but are a secret to the general population);
- several species of animals have been uplifted to human-level intelligence, including dolphins and whales, several kinds of simians, some birds, and even pigs.
Now the Uplifts in Eclipse Phase weren't intended to be furries, but rather an exploration into intelligence and what it means to be human ( EP is a transhuman game). But they'd work just fine as furries, I suppose. One of the main elements in EP is the ability to resleeve; to swap your ego from one body to another (including animals, robots, and other weirder things), but you could just leave that part out of you wanted the different kinds of bodies to be more like standard races. It wasn't one of the three systems listed in the "which should I use" question, but still worth a look.
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Post by henryhankovitch on Apr 2, 2012 18:58:02 GMT -8
Regarding cursed items:
One form of "curse" that I like is the item which malfunctions in some spectacular fashion. Especially consumables like potions or wands. Either the item has somehow become damaged or corrupted, or some mistake was made in its crafting. The malfunction, then, wouldn't just be a failure or a damaging effect, but some sort of unwanted version of the intended effect. Like a cursed potion of flight might cause the drinker to float twenty feet off the ground like a balloon, unable to move himself.
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Post by kevinr on Apr 3, 2012 6:34:42 GMT -8
I like cursed items that add more of a roleplaying flavor that can effect game play over a straight up negative to a game stat. That ring of invisibility is pretty damn nice even though every time you put it on it gives you the worst rotten egg farts you have ever had. The +3 Drow Forged scimitar of Fire and Twinkle is AMAZHING even when you find out that any time you roll a crit your pants fall down.
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Post by jazzisblues on Apr 3, 2012 6:46:17 GMT -8
I like cursed items that add more of a roleplaying flavor that can effect game play over a straight up negative to a game stat. That ring of invisibility is pretty damn nice even though every time you put it on it gives you the worst rotten egg farts you have ever had. The +3 Drow Forged scimitar of Fire and Twinkle is AMAZHING even when you find out that any time you roll a crit your pants fall down. While those are certainly entertaining and fun, I personally tend to favor something that is more impactive, like the +3 longsword with the wounding property on it that unfortunately also put the wounded condition on the wielder, and every critical hit by the wielder also gave the wielder a scar though not the damage from the wound. My personal favorites are things that do good but exact a toll for doing so. The talisman of healing that could not be used on one's self but when used to heal another could take the life force of the bearer and placed into the hands of the party's healer. Mechanically every hit point of damage healed by the talisman took a day off of the life of the healer. Just a couple of thoughts. JiB
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Post by tappy on Apr 6, 2012 22:42:11 GMT -8
Hyvemynd, you are so fucking awesome! that is exactly the advertisement I saw, and the best explanation I have ever hoped to get for "Lunch Viking". seriously, I was laughing so hard, I shot beer out my nose. "So... you like... food music?" LO FUCKING L!
If you ever get out to L.A. you should come on the show! Or if I ever get back to Japan (which is have wanted to do since I walked off the plane returning from Tokyo), we totally need to get together and hang out.
Have you ever seen the Japanese RPG "Terra, the Gunslinger?" I have been looking for an english language translation of it, but have come up short. Apparently, it is a game that bungles western culture in much the same way that western games, such as Oriental Adventures, bungle Eastern cultures. Such as early americans fleeing not religious persecution, but evil vampire children; Nuns and Preachers all packing heat and saying things like "I must kill you in the name of God"; Mary Magdaline is still alive, and is a psychotic, possessed killer; and Thomas Edison took out his own brain and put it in a teenage female Automata in a french maid outfit.
As to Eclipse Phase... that is an awesome idea. As I recall, the system is rather crunchy (using the accepted definition), but it does fit the themes of the DMF game quite well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2012 7:57:37 GMT -8
Stu - I have to agree, "The Vikings" is an awesomely BAD movie!!!! One of the first DVDs in my colloection - which has some REALLY bad flicks in it; like C.H.U.D., Whte Pongo, both D&D movies and the animated series... :-)
I always liked cursed items back in AD&D and was very disappointed to not have them in 4e... My players are board-gamers, so they are all about the ROLL-playing, loot and XP, so ROLE-playing opertunites (like creatively cursed item) tend to be lost on them...
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Apr 7, 2012 11:20:14 GMT -8
My group was the same way, silvester. I dragged 'em (some kicking and screaming) into role-playing - one of the most memorable events from my last campaign was when a PC voluntarily put on a cursed unremovable ring (which I totally didn't expect). She knew exactly what it would do to her, but she put it on anyway. (She thought she'd be killed by a BBEG if she didn't.) It turned into some really intense roleplay, and was fantastically fun.
Giving them tough situations like that may seem dickish, but those often tend to be the most fondly-remembered moments of your players' adventures.
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Post by hoseirrob on May 18, 2012 7:35:42 GMT -8
I just finished this episode on the way to work this morning and Stu - FU. The song at the end had me teary eyed going over the twists and turns of Sepulveda Blvd. It was a great song.
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