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Shane_Mclean · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

Well, it was an old SF RPG where you played mutants of some sort. I never played it, but heard about it.

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Dave Blewer · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

I know that it's a superhero game (or comic)... That's it.
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loungingbear · Seasoned Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 287

From darkshire.net :

Justifiers
1st ed by Gideon, Blaine Pardoe (1988) StarChilde
A sci-fi RPG in a dark future where "Transmatts" (i.e. stargates) allow limited teleportation to a host of Earth-like worlds. Megacorporations hire mercenary teams ("Justifiers") to "pacify" new worlds for colonization and exploitation. Justifiers are uplifted animals with limited rights, trying to eventually buy their freedom. It uses a simple percentile skill-based system, including a choice of 28 humanoid animal races (from albatrosses to rhinos!). Reviewed in White Wolf #27.

I never played it but I had heard of it.

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Iron Guardian · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

I could be wrong, but I think it went into a second edition some time later. I do remember seeing it at the flgs some time ago (don't know what edition it was), never purchased it. There might even be copies still floating around at Crazy Egors in Hilton, NY (about a 40 minute trip from where I live) as he carries lots of OOP stuff and usually attends Origins and GenCon. Cool

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cpk666 · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:56 am Post subject:

Might be good for a fan conversion, but I'd never even consider buying an anthropomorphic animal game. So it wouldn't get my money.

CK

PS But I would buy an Alice in Wonderland game, which would mostly likely have anthropomorphic animals in it. So I guess it isn't the presence of such animals that sours me on the idea as much as the fact that everyone would be playing them.
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Ashikaider · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

cpk: it's not so much a 'furry' game as the characters are a blend of humans and and animals. in fact, the art I saw in the book featured people with animal heads.

I played in a Justifiers game back in 2000, but dropped out due to the fact I couldn't hear the GM a good deal of the time.

cpk666 · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

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Talahar · Veteran Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 797 Location: Germany

I think a savage justifiers would be fun, but i dont see the necessity of the brand name....
scifi furry setting done right would be very fun to play....

reminds me of the horizon line from FFG...
it contained small fun settings which you knew from movies and tv series but completely without brandnames of any kind....
mad max, tron, transformers....

(the other two were a fantasy western setting, and a scary fairy tales kinda thing)

unfortunately horizon was d20 and thus quite rules heavy... and then the books were only 64 pages which left not a lot space for the actual setting...

with the mad max, tron and transformers setting it was no problem since you knew at least something about the setting,
but for the scary fairy tales and the fantasy western it was not enough...
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Vonether · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

I knew about the Justifers game back in the 80s. Mostly from ads I think. Never got around to seeing in print or feeling it was driving enough to buy it.

I never saw it as furry, because it came out long before anime and the whole "furry" fad got started. It was sort of like TMNT before it got popular. A sort of soft SF game of mutants during the Cold War period during an age (from 13 to 1 Cool

when we hoped there might be some small chance something would be "cool" from a nuclear age.

Lord Abaddon of Wormwood · Seasoned Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 471

I own both copies somewhere. As the system went... well it went, along with the turtles. As for a world setting and having a Savage time of it? Yes. This is one setting that would suit SW more than others.

As for Buying the rights - if it was going a the right price - yes. If its being held onto by someone that need money but is too in love with his/her world that they created - No.

As anyone approched the chap yet about a selling price?

If you think about how Sci-Fi RPGs were in the late 80's and the really cool stuff that been released now in Real Life then add in the fact all the cool Sci-Fi that has been done since then (books movies manga etc) Justifers could be done sooo nicely now.

It make me smile to think about the little white and blue book that was once Justifiers.

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Doc Halloween · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

I think the name brand conversions should be done by us (the general public; the GM's and players of SW). I think the officials of SW should concentrate on new settings. I do not want to have to go back and buy tons of campaign and world books. I would rather (and I did) buy SW originial stuff like NE and Rippers. I am thinking of buying Deadlands but the price is a bit high right now since I just bought the other 2 SW products (By the way does Deadlands: Reloaded have a pdf or is it just a printed book?).
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razorwise · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject:

Greets.

This is from the news on the front page of the website dated 6/05/06.

Doc Halloween · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject:

That will teach me to visit the front page for news. Thanks razorwise Very Happy

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