Fantasy Imperium. It has sixteen different hauberks.

I mean, halberds.

Halibutts.

Whatever.

You did have a look at the thumbnail for the Master's Manual right? I swear, that guy looks like the kind of person who hangs around city parks armed with bags of doggy treats.

Millenim´s End is an often overlooked pinnacle of BALBinist creative agenda design.

You can also easily add muskets (and muskrats too, if you wanna do some "Battle of New Orleans" southron exposure) for Age of Enlightenment fun.

Quote from: SettembriniMillenim´s End is an often overlooked pinnacle of BALBinist creative agenda design.

You can also easily add muskets (and muskrats too, if you wanna do some "Battle of New Orleans" southron exposure) for Age of Enlightenment fun.

Do you mean Millennium's End?

Perhaps ironically, that's on my list of books to survive the coming cull, so it really is Balbinist.

QuoteDo you mean Millennium's End?

Yeah, of course.
See, I know what you like.
:cool:

Beware their Ultramodern Firearms Sourcebook, though!

I´m not a gun-bunny per se, but when I read it and compared the entrances for the weapons I have actually  been trained in and trained other people in, I found some rather unpleasant errors.

IIRC, they made a gas-loading rifle out of the H&K G3, which is a blowback operated lock if there ever was one.

Quote from: SettembriniI´m not a gun-bunny per se....
 they made a gas-loading rifle out of the H&K G3, which is a blowback operated lock if there ever was one.

Uh-huh.

Well, I was a drill instructor and platoon leader, so there you go.
But I´m not reading gun mags or collect weapons. I just like to know my tools , I have no big interest in guns per se. I´ve met many many people who are way more knowledgable (and fond of) guns than I am.

So I can´t say whether the stuff I don´t know about in the "Ultramodern Firearms" is correct or not. A Gun-Bunny would.

I found the information in "Compendium of Modern Firearms" by R.Talsorian to be more thorough in my areas of expertise. All in all I ´d say it´s the better book, gaming wise, and even holds up nice and well against non-fiction books on personal weapons. It´s a bit dated though.

Joewolz might give us his opinion on source for firearm info.

EDIT: And remembering the technical specs, including whether it´s a gas-loader or roller locked blowback device, is very very easy when you actually dissasembe and re-assemble the lock of a weapon. And you should know that this is done very often. Very often.
Did I say it´s done very often?
So, basically you don´t forget that kinda shit.

Is Dark Realms Balbinist?  It's godawful, that I knows fer shure...

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Is Dark Realms Balbinist?  It's godawful, that I knows fer shure...

Well, I'd quote exactly what Balbinist means, but the thread on TBP is gone...

-clash

To actually delve into the higher arts of Balbinist-Play of millennium´s end, you have to frequent the ME mailing list.

I shirked away from that, but you shouldn´t!

"We have updated GNS to reflect a fourth creative agenda, gamism, narrativism, simulationism are now well understood. The fourth is Balbinusism, which essentially means low grade unimaginative play unable to step up and meet any other CA. Balbinist play is play which is simply not as good as gamist, narrativist or simulationist play."

Quote from: Christmas Ape"We have updated GNS to reflect a fourth creative agenda, gamism, narrativism, simulationism are now well understood. The fourth is Balbinusism, which essentially means low grade unimaginative play unable to step up and meet any other CA. Balbinist play is play which is simply not as good as gamist, narrativist or simulationist play."

Thanks, O Simian Santa!

My original idea for this thread was that people would make up Balbinist games, like Turnips and Tolls: The Game of Bringing Root Vegetables To Market or Lex et Ordo: The RPG of Lawyers in the Roman Republic, but folks started suggesting real games instead.

-clash

QuoteLex et Ordo: The RPG of Lawyers in the Roman Republic

I´d totally play that.

Quote from: Settembrini

Quote from: flyingmiceLex et Ordo: The RPG of Lawyers in the Roman Republic

I´d totally play that.

I was just thinking that.