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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Destroyer series.


I'd love to see how you'd stat up Remo Williams!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol
It just seems like a perfect fit as far as Fast Furious Fun!

Should the Sinanju Sex technique be an Arcane Background? Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Healing Wars surprised me with how good it is. It would make a great setting for an RPG.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter F. Hamilton's confederation series as seen in the Reality Dysfunction series.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

warrenss2 wrote:
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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.

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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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Wink 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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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks" - Hmm, missed it on the thread.


My bad, UmbraLux. A friend, offline, recommended it to me.

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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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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Removed echo.....
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with 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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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 second that one!!! Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.


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
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another vote for Nausicaa. Here's a bunch of stats made for True20 that could be used to Savage it...

http://true20.wikidot.com/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-wind (SavageGamerGirl, I think this is yours!)


That still is one of the best comics I've ever read.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.
I FORTH this one!!! It would make the MOST AWESOME SW game!!!!!!!!! Idea Idea Idea

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and to settle the debate Hayao Miazaki' said yes Nausicaa is wearing pants
sigh Confused ... thanks a lot... ruin my enjoyment of the anime...
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