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canology Seasoned

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'd love to see how you'd stat up Remo Williams! |
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Pariah74 Veteran

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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lol
It just seems like a perfect fit as far as Fast Furious Fun!
Should the Sinanju Sex technique be an Arcane Background?  _________________ "Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. "
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77IM Heroic

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warrenss2 Veteran

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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:37 am Post subject: |
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The Expendables - Richard Avery. They were called EXPENDABLES - A team of criminals and misfits, "The Chosen Ones" selected to explor new planets for human colonization...


I still have, and love, these 4 books.
Imagine your player's characters going out of suspended animation, looking up to a face of a robot that asks the character, "Sir, are you in condition to receive data?" _________________
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salcor Novice
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Peter F. Hamilton's confederation series as seen in the Reality Dysfunction series.
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Timon Heroic

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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| salcor wrote: | Peter F. Hamilton's confederation series as seen in the Reality Dysfunction series.
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Neutronium Alchemist et al +1
Farewell Horizontal by K.W.Jeter
This book takes place on the side of an immense building. The downtrodden normals live inside the building on the horizontal and the weird and ambitious drive motorbikes around in media- and connectivity-saturated gangs on the vertical, using superfast intelligent "pithon" systems to hold on. Genuinely disorientating _________________ Biting! It's like kissing but there's a winner!
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Some good books posted already, here are a few more:
- Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks" (Fae are among us...and they need human mortality to go to war.)
- Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series (Ancient empires, semi-legal assassins, and soul destroying weaponry!)
- Doyle & McDonald's Mageworld series (What Star Wars strove to be.) |
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warrenss2 Veteran

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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks" (Fae are among us...and they need human mortality to go to war.) | You are not the first person who recommended this book.
I like that Urban Fae stuff a lot.
Does anyone know of any more authors that write that genre? _________________
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Timon Heroic

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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Did we already have Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs trilogy: Altered Carbon / Woken Furies /Broken Angels?
Body-shifting SpecOps mercenaries in a universe littered with intense, petty conflict and the remains of a war between vastly superior races. Not hard to savage, but hard to get the tone. _________________ Biting! It's like kissing but there's a winner!
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UmbraLux Veteran
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| warrenss2 wrote: | | Quote: | | Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks" (Fae are among us...and they need human mortality to go to war.) | You are not the first person who recommended this book. | Hmm, missed it on the thread. One of my favorites though.
| Quote: | I like that Urban Fae stuff a lot.
Does anyone know of any more authors that write that genre? | Ilona Andrews, Seanan McGuire, and Patricia Briggs are all good authors in "urban fantasy". I particularly like the Andrews' treatment of vampires...difficult to transfer to Savage Worlds (I tried once) but a refreshing change from sparkling excrement. Faith Hunter, C. E. Murphy, Simon R. Green, Jim Butcher, John Levitt, Larry Correia, Rob Thurman, and some of Mercedes Lackey's books also fit in the genre...I must admit to liking the first three authors better.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Books that keeps coming up for me are Herge's Tintin series. My kids are keen on playing in that setting and my son's up for helping out with a lot of the ground work. I'm thinking the Thrilling Tales Pulp guide would be a good tool for creating it if it was set in the early years of the series.
My problem is that I've done little reading of the graphic novels and most of my knowledge is from the recent movie and episodes of Nelvana's animated series. I'm also not sure how the PC's would fit in - would they play some of the series known support characters or completely new characters based on the series archetypes. The latter is where my lack of a deep knowledge of the books is holding me up a bit. I do really like the idea of creating a Snowy the dog NPC. The villains would be quite easy, as they seem to be quite similar to those found in pulps of that gen. I'm thinking elements from the horror companion like ghosts and spirits would be good and appropriate. |
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warrenss2 Veteran

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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks" - Hmm, missed it on the thread. |
My bad, UmbraLux. A friend, offline, recommended it to me.
| Quote: | | Books that keeps coming up for me are Herge's Tintin series. | - I have never read these. Are they good?
I'm leaning toward Hiero's Journey (see my first post). VERY good book! _________________
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Removed echo..... _________________

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kronovan Veteran
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| warrenss2 wrote: | | Quote: | | Books that keeps coming up for me are Herge's Tintin series. | - I have never read these. Are they good? |
They're graphic novels aimed at a young audience, but yes I'd say they're very good. The artwork was good and the main protagonist and support characters were well crafted. I've only read a handful of the series, but I did enjoy all of them. |
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| salcor wrote: | | Peter F. Hamilton's confederation series as seen in the Reality Dysfunction series. |
I can't say I'm a fan of his writing style -can barely make it through any of his books- but for sure his worlds and technology are outstanding. I could see the Reality Dysfunction universe being a very good setting and premise for a hard SciFi campaign. In particular his organically birthed spaceships would be perfect for spaceships that are created as characters. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hayao Miazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" manga. That would be an awesome Savage Setting. Weird creatures, post-apocalyptic scrounging, modern weapons mixed with medieval ones, and psionics. _________________ 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here.'
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Virgobrown72 Veteran

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| Quote: | Hayao Miazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" manga. That would be an awesome Savage Setting. Weird creatures, post-apocalyptic scrounging, modern weapons mixed with medieval ones, and psionics.
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I second that one!!!  _________________ "Anything smaller is just fiddly, and fiddly is not one of SvgW's three Fs..." |
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VonDan Legendary

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| SavageGamerGirl wrote: | | Hayao Miazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" manga. That would be an awesome Savage Setting. Weird creatures, post-apocalyptic scrounging, modern weapons mixed with medieval ones, and psionics. |
and to settle the debate Hayao Miazaki' said yes Nausicaa is wearing pants, they are just tight buckskin pants like English ridding pants made of thin leather cause she s a sky jocky _________________ http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h51/Vondan/ |
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Jeffrywith1e Seasoned
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warrenss2 Veteran

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| Quote: | | Hayao Miazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" manga. That would be an awesome Savage Setting. Weird creatures, post-apocalyptic scrounging, modern weapons mixed with medieval ones, and psionics. | I FORTH this one!!! It would make the MOST AWESOME SW game!!!!!!!!!
| Quote: | | and to settle the debate Hayao Miazaki' said yes Nausicaa is wearing pants | sigh ... thanks a lot... ruin my enjoyment of the anime...
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