Has anyone ever heard of this game?

I got a gift card for Yule and I have ordered a copy.

http://www.amazon.com/Deathstalkers-Fantasy-Horror-Role-Playing-Game-nd/dp/0971768404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262004015&sr=8-1

Never heard of it, but it looks metal as hell.

Quote from: Danger;351744Never heard of it, but it looks metal as hell.

It does, doesn't it.

It looks like quite the "Fantasy Heartbreaker"... complete with nothing added since 2003, the author giving himself a 5-star review, claiming to be the biggest RPG around, presenting itself as better than D20, etc etc.

And yes, heavy-metal look to it that personally just bores me.

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I own a copy of Deathstalkers II (2005).  It is indeed a fantasy heartbreaker, but as far as fantasy heartbreakers go I think it is one of the better ones.  The first edition was named in one of Uncle Ron's articles specifically as a fantasy heartbreaker.  I haven't seen the first edition version, but the second edition is based off the OGL d20 System.  The cover art and interior art is fairly good.  There are a couple of silly images, but for the most part the art is good.  It has a good map, glossary, and index which is always a plus.  

You can download a copy of Deathstalker II's Open Game Content from Cutter's Guild Games website.

Yeah. I got that thing. Big honkin' heavy things. Lots of interesting ideas in it but I felt, at the end of the day, that it wasn't really worth it.

The 'Deathstalkers', those big iron dudes on the cover, were part of the problem... a never ending wave of slow as shit 'killfuck soulshitter' golems walking across the land killing everything?  The more I read about them the more I could feel my brains dribbling out my ears.

Short side of it: You've got upteenbillion player races, including two or three dog people, a deer man, a half demon race and so forth. Each one gets a limit break power attack thingy.

You've got, as I recall, percentile based skills with different plateaus of cool, and classes... off the top of my head I almost want to say it is a Synnibar style world with an actual workable system underneath it all.

I never played it, so I can't speak to the true functionality of the system. Seemed solid enough, if a bit fiddly.  I vaguely recall doing some test runs with a character in solo encounters just to see if I could get it to work, which it did.

It seemed pretty neat to me. I played a few games but was unable to drum up interest in a campaign. I can't speak to long term play.

I'm astounded that there's this many people who've even heard of it.  Next you're all going to be telling me you played Darkurthe Legends too.

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Quote from: Spike;351764Short side of it: You've got upteenbillion player races, including two or three dog people, a deer man, a half demon race and so forth. Each one gets a limit break power attack thingy.

A friggin' deer man?  Sounds so ridiculous that I just have to play one.

"I roll to forage; is it rutting season yet?"

I picked up a copy of 2E on ebay a few months ago. I must say that I was really put off with some elements like class levels, spells and monsters that felt like D&D, and the small type in some sections (even the back cover was hard to read). Nothing in it for me, but others may find it enjoyable.

Quote from: RPGPundit;351835I'm astounded that there's this many people who've even heard of it.  Next you're all going to be telling me you played Darkurthe Legends too.

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I've never heard of any of the shit you people talk about.

I did order a copy of Points of Light today.

Quote from: brettmb;351838I picked up a copy of 2E on ebay a few months ago. I must say that I was really put off with some elements like class levels, spells and monsters that felt like D&D, and the small type in some sections (even the back cover was hard to read). Nothing in it for me, but others may find it enjoyable.

Yeah, the vertical class charts were a strange idea.

Quote from: RPGPundit;351835I'm astounded that there's this many people who've even heard of it.  Next you're all going to be telling me you played Darkurthe Legends too.

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I've played it.
I loved the grimdark Tolkien of it. System was, off for me and my friends.
 I also had  some difficulty  convincing people to play/make character types who could work together, but that's any broad spectrum game.

Quote from: Silverlion;351862I've played it.
I loved the grimdark Tolkien of it. System was, off for me and my friends.
 I also had  some difficulty  convincing people to play/make character types who could work together, but that's any broad spectrum game.

Hah! All I remember about it is that it had some kind of magic system that I thought was very cool at the time; but now I don't even recall the details.

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Quote from: Silverlion;351862I've played it.
I loved the grimdark Tolkien of it. System was, off for me and my friends.
 I also had  some difficulty  convincing people to play/make character types who could work together, but that's any broad spectrum game.

Ha! So he wasn't making it up?!