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Post by Forresst on Sept 26, 2012 22:28:29 GMT -8
I don't know that Shadowrun is too far off from what you're describing. You'd end up limiting the options a person has, but... it would work. I guess to me, the deciding factor would be weighing how much work I'd have to put in to run it in Shadowrun, vs. how much work I'd have to put in to run it in GURPS. But that's just me.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 25, 2012 23:34:55 GMT -8
Must link [Crispy Retinas] achieve for invite. Min ilvl 725.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 22, 2012 17:45:13 GMT -8
Actually, when I went to school, we had an RPG club in French. But we just used the rules from... hell, I don't actually remember the system the teacher in charge of it had, but I remember they were in English. They kicked me out of the club after a couple weeks because I was using legit French words the other kids didn't understand /shrug.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 20, 2012 11:11:19 GMT -8
Or, "recipes for disaster".
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Post by Forresst on Sept 18, 2012 18:33:36 GMT -8
How about Jerks in a Box?
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Post by Forresst on Sept 17, 2012 20:50:49 GMT -8
Here, I got a weird asian music video that will blow your mind. Also, Once you've achieved balanced saturation, Gangnam style and dj OZMA interact in REALLY weird ways in your head.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 17, 2012 11:26:46 GMT -8
I'm much the same way, but it's also that I just know the world much better than I ever could someone else's work. Exactly. EXACTLY. No matter how much I like something, I tend not to obsess over it because it's just a thing that I like, and so my knowledge of "Canon" details tends to be... well, fuzzy. And guaran-fucking-teed, no matter what I try to do, one of the players I'm running with knows every last comma in every last sentence and now I have to deal with "well, actually, that rock is purple, it says so in The Book Forresst Doesn't Care About by Q. P. Thatguy." Then I get mad, and a bitch loses a kneecap... It's just bad times for everyone.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 16, 2012 22:54:02 GMT -8
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy sexy laydeh! Op op op op oppan gangnam style /shuffle
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Post by Forresst on Sept 16, 2012 22:40:49 GMT -8
I love world-building too much to play in someone else's setting. I don't mind taking some of the trappings (for example, the world I made for my 4e campaign had a modified and slightly edited D&D pantheon so the cleric guys would have people to worship), just to make my life easier at 4 AM on a tuesday, but man, I would just HATE to have to be like "ok so you're going into this cave of wonders, and the people in the surrounding town have all this stuff to tell you about it, and here's all these details I didn't write, so when I put the giant mutant beetle elephant monster guy in there you're gonna be SO CONFUSED because everything you've ever heard about this cave says it's populated strictly by oozes and an insane monk".
Easier for me to write out a little blurb about their town, maybe make a random continent, and figure it out as I go. At least then I know all the details because I made them.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 18:45:52 GMT -8
OOOH! OOOH! How about a magnet trap? If you trigger the trap either you get stabbed a lot as all the blades go to the magnet, or you get magnetized and now there's big sharp swords and shit flying around all coming straight at you!
You could totally do the ooze thing too. You could either have the ooze be really hot liquified metal (maybe from Igor the Angry Blacksmith's forge!) or liquid metal like mercury, where it isn't really hot or nothin, just... oozey.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 17:49:19 GMT -8
I secretly call every tavern or inn my PCs stay in some stupid pop culture reference, but only tell them so if they ask. Memorably, in my one big D&D4 campaign, the guy asked which bar he was in on his first adventure, so that whole campaign they made sure to ask. It was "The Duck and Dodgers" that tipped them off.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 17:46:40 GMT -8
If you want another evil overlord, I'll throw my diabolical hat into the ring.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 17:43:42 GMT -8
This needs to happen. In fact, I offer any help I have to offer, although if Hyvemynd is a pro graphic dude, you might like his work better. On the other hand, mine is free.
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Post by Forresst on Sept 11, 2012 17:33:01 GMT -8
Here is my reference shelf divvied up by basic area:
6 volumes of assorted folklores, fairy tales, and myth sets. I'm missing a good scandinavian volume, and I'd probably gleefully chew off my arm for a good book of Aborigine folklore.
Uh... counting the cool pamphlet I got at the Rome exhibit at the Musée de la Civilisation, there's about 12 books (the pamphlet only counts because it has an AWESOME little picture graph thing of the relative timings of the great empires of recorded history) on various aspects of history. There's the Roman empire, a couple of different Chinese dynasties, A bunch of stuff concerning the Russian empire, the history of Canada, and the US, and a few that try to show a little bit of everything.
I have a copy of the complete works of Machiavelli, the communist manifesto, an old textbook from some social studies course that looks at different political and economic systems, a book about forms of government and the social pressures that allow them to emerge, two books that detail the history of world war 1 and world war 2, a book about the cold war, and a neat book about undiscovered or primitive humans and the way their societies work.
Then I have a bunch of cookbooks. I figure you can tell a fair bit about how people will eat based on their environment and vice versa. Also, I like to cook.
I have this amazing book/dvd combo of Leonardo Da Vinci's works called 'Il Codice Atlantico' that my friend got me from Italy. I like that because if I'm trying to think up something about alternate history (or more to the point, alternate technology), it gives me a really good starting point.
Finally I have some biographies and histories of particular people. Nikola Tesla, Da Vinci, Salieri, Catherine the Great, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, my great grandma on my mom's side, and so on.
OH SHIT SON I almost forgot about all the science books. I have physics, chemistry, architecture, fluid dynamics, electricity, electronics, and assorted other books (of varying ages). Most of them are either old textbooks for the physical science-y stuff, or like someone up there said, I like Michio Kaku when I want to read about weird physics.
I only buy physical books for reference anymore, since I got my cool kobo electric book I can read random stories and let my brain gum on little brain candies just with that. But when I do go looking for more stuff to refer to, I get them at used books places because a) they're cheap, b) I'm just gonna slowly destroy them with tape flags and constant rereading anyway, so why get the shiny nice version?! and c) the stuff I'm most interested in drawing on tends to be the super old stuff. Which isn't really so popular right now.
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Post by Forresst on Aug 28, 2012 15:11:11 GMT -8
Hooray! Happy birthday Stork! I will raise this ice-cold beer in your honour, whenever I get around to opening it!
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