Quote from: WerekoalaOh, MAN.... testosterone overload. That's concentrated awesome there.
 
So, who would they take on - Mexico?
 
All of it. At once.

Hell yes.
 
And if they needed a reason, it would likely be over some lost Confederate gold and a broken bottle of whiskey.
 
I've actually been thinking a game that was a mix of Heroscape, Riverworld, and this thread might be fun.  Stat out your larger-than-life historical figures and play them as an adventuring party.  I think FUDGE or the PDQ system would work pretty well for it.

Quote from: Hastur T. FannonI think that part of it is a lot of people are attracted to Christianity, but are repelled by it's Lawncrappers.  For some people, even if you don't believe Cash sings about a God that you wish you could believe in.

For me, very yes.

Quote from: Hastur T. FannonRepentance and redemption

You mean he sang about them?

Where's the actual repentance? Where's the actual redemption? Does it consist in making a pile of cash?

Quote from: droogYou mean he sang about them?

Where's the actual repentance? Where's the actual redemption? Does it consist in making a pile of cash?

Yeah, you got Cash alright. It was all about the money. And he was really as irrelevant as you claim.

Get a fucking clue, will you.

Quote from: Consonant DudeGet a fucking clue, will you.

I'm sorry, are you having trouble finding a forum?

Quote from: droogI'm sorry, are you having trouble finding a forum?

Fuck yeah.

But that has nothing to do with this thread and the fact you are acting like a clueless twat.

Or maybe it does, come to think of it.

Quote from: Consonant DudeBut that has nothing to do with this thread and the fact you are acting like a clueless twat.

Or maybe it does, come to think of it.

See ya, then. Unless you'd care to answer my question. Where?

Quote from: droogWhere's the actual repentance? Where's the actual redemption?

Quote from: wikipediaAfter he quit using drugs in the early 1970s, Cash rediscovered his Christian faith, taking an "altar call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area. Cash chose this church over many other larger, celebrity churches in the Nashville area because he said he was just another man there, and not a celebrity.

That's a start.  An actual Cash fan (as opposed to a bandwagon-jumper like me)  could tell you more

Quote from: droogSee ya, then. Unless you'd care to answer my question. Where?

I just told you I can't find one.

Quote from: droogI think Levi's answer is more correct than he might like to think.

Johnny Cash – lone badass in black. Gee, sounds familiar....

Who said I was entirely joking?

He sang songs I like, and dressed like me.  That's enough to enjoy the music, and to like him as an artist.  Shallow, but true.

If you want less shallow, the music also reminds me of my father, who played it and danced around the living room late at night, believing nobody noticed, while my father was still alive.  And that's enough to love the music.

Hmm, thought this one was done.

Levi, darling – you, Settembrini and anybody else is entitled to like any music they like, for whatever reasons they like. Music is music, and I had enough of musical tribalism in the 80s. I'll listen to anything, and I'll never ask you to take something off, because I find pleasure in almost any music.

What I'm questioning is this mythology, this hero-worship, around a man who did nothing but play music. "Wouldn't it be cool to have JC in your game?" Why the fuck?

Only answer I've heard so far is that he found God. Big deal. My own father has rediscovered God in his declining years. Half the junkies in the world find God when they get off the junk.

I'm forced to conclude that it has a lot to do with his image. Which was basically about branding and marketing, and nothing to do with the music.

Well, given that in the other thread I was the one who said something to the effect of "Let's all be honest, what game wouldn't be improved by the addition of Johnny Cash?", I'll answer you, droog.

I'm not a big Cash music fan.  It's just not my genre.  But the man had an aura of cool, and about 97% of it was the voice, man.  All Cash EVER had to do was walk in the room and say "Hello...  I'm Johnny Cash." and that voice, with that hound-dog weary trilled undertone just said "Hell yeah, man!"

It's not that Johnny Cash had Hero-Quality, or was a 'I'm not worthy' level bad-ass, it was just that he carried an aura of Cool.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstPersonally, I think John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Yul Bryner, and Johnny Cash would be the greatest NPC group of all time.

 That bunch would really kick ass as a  Merchant starship crew in the middle of a Startown barfight in the TRAVELLER universe.

- Ed C.

Koltar, ordinarily thread necromancy is punished by tarring and feathering. However, you get to live.

You made me remember those sublime rpg.net posts by American Badass about his d20 Cthulhu game that had Jimmy Page in it. I seem to recall a scene involving a mad guitar solo during a speedboat chase.

"Initiative order...  Lee Marvin goes first.  He does a shot of jet fuel and shaves his stubble with the glowing-hot wreckage of a Tiger tank.  Next is... the Guvnor.  He punches you so hard we have to play Synnibar now."

"Awww, fuck!  This always happens..."