Games you want to run.

Silverlion · September 06, 2012, 05:37:30 PM

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;5799331975 Empire of the Petal Throne: Someday, someday...

Star Wars Off the Leash: A SW game, ignoring all but the first three movies (Heck, maybe all but the first movie), done in the anything-goes 70's space-pulp style of the old Marvel SW comics. Sample ideas from my notebook: The 3rd Death Star, not a space station but built into the crust of an entire planet, with a beam that makes suns go nova. Vader's cyborg body auto-repairs and digs it way out of it's shallow grave on Endor, even more evil now that Anakin's soul has left it to move on. Fundamentalist Sith so evil that they have "Nightsabers" of ultra-cold blackness. The original Jedi knights, who wear plate armor, use "Light-" versions of all kinds of Medieval weapons and ride Space dragons, return from their centuries-long crusade against Dune-esque Space Muslims. I'm not that fanatic a SW fan, but it was a big part of my 70's-80's childhood imagi-scape and the idea just keeps calling out to me as I lie awake in the small hours. Also, I hate seeing SW ossify into just another body of untouchable geek canon and I want to get back to the crazy pop energy that it had for me when I first saw it. I'll probably use a simplified version of the West End system.

I think this would be awesome for Mini-Six, except space-Muslims, I'd probably cook up a new Order, neither Sith nor Jedi.

QuoteSuper-Hero game: My last attempt was an epic disaster. I have no idea what I would use for a system. Writer's block siezes my brain every time I even think about doing it... but the itch just won't go away.

Anything we can do to help with this one?

Jason Coplen · September 06, 2012, 06:15:45 PM

RQ6 - I want to see what the differences are between that and RQ3 (which I ran several successful campaigns with).

DCC - I want my DCC group to finally get back together so I can get more time in with the system. The little play we did have was really fun.

Dreaming Cities/Tri-stat - For a simple yet fun modern day game where I can throw the kitchen sink at my group.

Philotomy Jurament · September 06, 2012, 06:34:22 PM

Quote from: Jason Coplen;580479RQ6 - I want to see what the differences are between that and RQ3 (which I ran several successful campaigns with).

Off the top of my head, some of the more obvious differences include:

No resistance table.
Not the same Strike Rank system. (Uses an Initiative + one or more Combat Actions system, instead. Somewhat more abstract.)
Instead of crits at 1/20 and specials at 1/5, you have a single higher success level: crits at 1/10.
Special combat maneuvers (e.g. disarm, choose location, etc.) are not declared in advance/prior to rolling; having a higher degree of success than your opponent allows you to choose from a menu of such options. (So you roll well, first, then decide how to apply your success.)
Combat skills are not as granular, and there aren't separate attack/parry skills. Instead you have a combat styles that incorporate multiple weapons. For example, Saxon Fyrdsman style might include spear, shield, and seax. All have the same percentage and improve together as a single skill.
No Dodge skill. Melee dodges are assumed to be part of parrying. Get out of the way of something big dodges are covered with an evasion skill.
Consolidated/reconfigured skills list to work with the changes to combat and the elimination of the resistance table, et cetera.
Different magic systems, of course (par for the course for any BRP-variant game)

Jason Coplen · September 06, 2012, 09:22:35 PM

Quote from: Philotomy Jurament;580488Off the top of my head, some of the more obvious differences include:

No resistance table.
Not the same Strike Rank system. (Uses an Initiative + one or more Combat Actions system, instead. Somewhat more abstract.)
Instead of crits at 1/20 and specials at 1/5, you have a single higher success level: crits at 1/10.
Special combat maneuvers (e.g. disarm, choose location, etc.) are not declared in advance/prior to rolling; having a higher degree of success than your opponent allows you to choose from a menu of such options. (So you roll well, first, then decide how to apply your success.)
Combat skills are not as granular, and there aren't separate attack/parry skills. Instead you have a combat styles that incorporate multiple weapons. For example, Saxon Fyrdsman style might include spear, shield, and seax. All have the same percentage and improve together as a single skill.
No Dodge skill. Melee dodges are assumed to be part of parrying. Get out of the way of something big dodges are covered with an evasion skill.
Consolidated/reconfigured skills list to work with the changes to combat and the elimination of the resistance table, et cetera.
Different magic systems, of course (par for the course for any BRP-variant game)

Thanks for the info.

I have to admit the combat styles sound neat.

Philotomy Jurament · September 06, 2012, 09:30:17 PM

Quote from: Jason Coplen;580564Thanks for the info.

I have to admit the combat styles sound neat.

I'm iffy on the combat styles, to tell you the truth. But I do like the way the possibility of special effects are implemented based on the degree of success for your roll, rather than being declared in advance. (It's actually a pretty old variant approach; SPQR used it, although the RQ6 version isn't exactly the same.)

The Butcher · September 06, 2012, 10:53:02 PM

Quote from: Philotomy Jurament;580566I'm iffy on the combat styles, to tell you the truth. But I do like the way the possibility of special effects are implemented based on the degree of success for your roll, rather than being declared in advance. (It's actually a pretty old variant approach; SPQR used it, although the RQ6 version isn't exactly the same.)

To be honest, the RQ6 core rulebook gives GMs a lot of leway on presenting and implementing Combat Styles, from a having a single Combat skill (for games in which combat is rare), to having a separate skill for each weapon or weapon category, to the typical 2 or 3 weapon styles introduced in MRQII.

I can't claim a lot of familiarity with old school RQ (I might pick up RQ3 one of these days), but I'm loving RQ6.

James Gillen · September 07, 2012, 03:24:24 AM

Quote from: The Butcher;580457Don't listen to Pundejo. This is awesome and I'd play it in a heartbeat.

You remember that one story arc with Han and Chewie in the comic where they had to perform a mission with a bunch of random characters including a "Don Kiho-tay" who wore plate armor, carried a lightsaber, and thought he was a Jedi Knight?

What was really funny was when West End made that a character template for the RPG.

JG

Just Another Snake Cult · September 07, 2012, 08:37:33 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;580448I'm sorry, I don't mean to be cruel but.. those all sound like absolutely awful ideas.

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As I grow older, I find I actually prefer the Star Wars comics to the movies.

It's all about that 70's "ZAP!!!".

RPGPundit · September 09, 2012, 04:25:00 AM

Well, to each their own.

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GeekEclectic · September 10, 2012, 09:37:29 PM

I want to run a Smallville game that goes longer than a couple sessions. I'm not married to a particular concept, though a loosely(very loosely) Green Lantern-based setting might be neat.

vytzka · September 11, 2012, 03:21:47 AM

Tenra Bansho Zero. And I'm going to do so really soon now

Dirk Remmecke · September 11, 2012, 06:53:52 AM

A one-shot: Professor Layton and the Curse on the Orient Express.
(Which, despite appearances, will have no Cthulhoid elements.)

The system of choice is vs. Monsters.

RPGPundit · September 12, 2012, 05:28:16 PM

What the hell is that?!

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Ronin · September 12, 2012, 07:09:19 PM

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;579933Cold City/Hot War: Not normally a fan of indy/forgy/story/whatever stuff (Loath great chunks of it, in fact) but something this moody, very British little pair of games really grabbed me. Maybe use a different system... maybe just jump off the deep end and not.

I love the setting/fluff of this game. Hate the system. I ran it using Microlite20 in what ended up being an abortive play by post game. (Which was totally my fault. Life snuck up on me and said fuck you! Work sucker! You have no time for anything else! Your dooooomed!!!!!)