Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

OJ · Seasoned Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 154

I've heard that particular criticsism about ID, but my group's games are totally FFF. I'm curious about what the issue might be. Is it the extra crunch, or the armor system? Either way, if you post your Afro Samurai conversion, I would love to see it...

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:

I kInda felt it was both. I would have went with something more in line with the Savage Worlds original rules. With Savage Worlds, I never re-invent the wheel, so to speak. At this point, with the SWD, I feel like most settings just need minimal setting rules, and cool fluff. They se to have just about everything covered, barring what's in the companions. I felt the idea for Iron Dynasty was peachy keen, but the application seemed a little off. It's a little overpowered when compared to SWD, with a bit of the power creep feel of D&D. Only my opinion though...
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Virgobrown72 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject:

As a matter of fact, the reason I wanted to do the Afro Samurai thing was because I liked where Iron Dynasty was going, but did t like the un streamlined feel of most of the extra stuff. The armor, I would've just went with leather, chain or plate. I thought the weapons where fine for the most part, but the katana was way more powerful in ID. I guess it all really came down to the extra edges. I did not like the Creation, Ki, and Power edges. I do realize that they were evocative for the setting, but I felt they were unbalancing and could have been streamlined.

Again, just my opinion...
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OJ · Seasoned Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 154

That's cool. I play ID a lot, but I kind of want to tweak it. In my head, I'm trying to work out how to run the Kougu Ninja Scrolls, aka Basilisk.

I think for Basilisk, I'd use the super powers in SWD. I'd stay away from the Super Powers Companion for that, though.

Hell, I'd just love to see more Oriental settings in general...

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject:

Yeah, me too. I burned out on Tolkenesque fantasy long ago...
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Kodyax · Seasoned Joined: 29 Sep 2010 Posts: 492

And here a part of me is almost ready to take Sundered Skies and use a few of the rules to run a version of SpellJammer.

xxlgeeklord · Seasoned Joined: 21 Nov 2011 Posts: 249

Percy Jackson(not the movie, the books), the Saga of Darren Shan, the Rangers Aprentice, The Demonata (Bec or others), Skulduggery Pleasant, Eragon, the Ice Age chronicles, Only You can Save Mankind, Pendragon, Larklight, the Dawning of Power, the Hunger Games, Mortal Engines, Dune, Verdigris Deep, the Mysterious Benedict Society, H@ppy Halloween, Heartseas/ the Weathermonger, the Tripods, the Immortals, Castle in the Air, the Ranger's Apprentice, Drizzt Do'urden, the Floating Island, Gone, The Worlds of Chrestomanci, Mortal Instruments, the Borribles, Earthsea.

Dutch Books:
De Kinderen van Moeder Aarde, de Metro van de Angst, Torenhoog en Mijlen Breed, Drakenvuur, Het Net van de Vuurgod, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek,

Comics:
Amulet, Goblins, Girl Genius, Burning Empires.

Films:
I-Robot, Men in Black, Dinotopia, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, the Castle of Cagliostro, Van Helsing.

I have more, but that's all i can think of at the moment.

warrenss2 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:15 pm Post subject:

OMG!!!

The Borribles would be a BLAST!!!!!!!

#trippin

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xxlgeeklord · Seasoned Joined: 21 Nov 2011 Posts: 249

Lol, I assume you're a fan to.

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject:

Kodyax · Seasoned Joined: 29 Sep 2010 Posts: 492

The interplanetary rules of Slipstream work well for this but Sundered Skies is more the level of tech I want. I have both and using bits of both is not out of the question.

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject:

The Scott Pilgrim series!!! That would be crazy!!!
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gleepism · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:51 am Post subject:

I mentioned this on The RPG Guy's site, but I've now been thinking awfully hard about savaging Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. series.

Hard boiled, bourbon-esque gritty Noir meets fantasy.

The fantasy is very fantasy, but wonderfully twisted... and with a focus on people and their motives rather than what kind of strangeness is present.
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warrenss2 · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:36 am Post subject:

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Although it might be difficult to capture the mood.
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KosherInfidel · Novice Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Posts: 2

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

English Warlocks and OSI agents vs. Nazi Weird Science Supers

Virgobrown72 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:55 am Post subject:

Not exactly a book, Buuuut,

Any one of those Charlie Brown TV specials!!! If you start out with everyone with the young hinderance, and give them a mission that requires no combat solutions, i think it could work. Race for your life Charlie Brown, with the boat race? Chase Secene!!! The Spelling Bee? Smarts Rolls!!! I'm really considering a game with all kid characters man...
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VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3250

Currently reading Sabriel by Garth Nix

I had only known him from the covers of kids books on the store shelf

this is his first novel and although the main PC is a late teen I guess it is more serious than his recent work

This is a world with a medieval Old Kingdom that has necromancers and church charter magic and is plagued by the undead since the king died 200 years ago. The south kingdom across the wall is at the level of ww1 earth and magic does not work after 30 or 40 miles south of the wall. There is one family based in the old kingdom that has managed to combine Necromancey and Charter magic and uses bells as the focus to seal and bind the undead. But the last of the family of Abhorsen is only a teen age girl in a south kingdom boarding school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabriel

researching and it is the first in a series of six books and novellas so far. It even has it's own wiki

http://oldkingdomwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Kingdom_Wiki

and damn it peeking ahead in the series they stole my idea of the girl getting a hand bite off and magical metal replacment
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Just my $0.02...

SF:

E C Tubb's Dumarest series. Down-and-out migrant workers among the stars, getting caught up in all sorts of pulpy intrigue.

Iain M Banks' Culture series. Difficult to get the tech right.

Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers books.

Fantasy:

Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories. Easy to do I think. Classic swords & sorcery, with a protagonist so nasty that when the Devil comes for his soul, he manages to persuade him not to, because he's spreading more chaos than anyone else.

warrenss2 · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject:

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3250