I just picked up a couple dozen d12s.

I was going to buy a copy of the D&D basic set (not the red-box set, but this one); however, I got sidetracked and the store closed. Next time I get a chance, I'm going to pick it up. And run it.

Star Wars Saga Edition.  There really wasn't any question whether I was going to buy it, and I have to say I'm happy with my purchase.

Aces & Eights.  Damn you walkerp!

Quote from: Arsenic CanaryLegend of the Five Rings 3e, via Amazon.com.

Kind of an impulse buy, but I'm not displeased with it.

Good call. Spending some time with the game really made me fall in love with the setting.

Also hgjs good call.

Today I just picked up SW ruleset for FG2. Looks pretty sweet!

Quote from: Serious PaulGhostbusters you say? Tell me more....

Well, it very much emulates it in style, I think, the sort of sessions/campaigns it works for--light, often a bit zany, down to creating your "Franchise" and building it up.  In many ways, I consider it a spiritual heir of sorts to that fine game.

Quote from: Serious PaulGhostbusters you say? Tell me more....

It's Ghostbusters meets Reno 911.  It emulates a ghost-hunting franchise and a reality show about that ghost-hunting franchise.  It doesn't really have to be ghosts, it can be any kind of horror you want.  The game is designed to be silly and is really fucking awesome for that.

Colonial Gothic, the idea grabbed me, sadly the execution hasn't so I'll be selling it on to someone who will have more fun with it.

I'm hoping to pick up Aces & Eights tomorrow, I have a copy reserved, I blame WalkerP personally.

I'm an hour and a half drive from the FLGS so I only make the trip every few months, but when I do I try to make it worth my while:

- Ars Magica's Order of Hermes: True Lineages
- The Excellent Prisimatic Spray vol.1 Issues 4&5 (the Dying Earth RPG magazine)
- City of Brass
- Changeling: The Lost
- Dungeon Crawl Classics #40-something, the Treasure Maps one
- Fear Itself, the new GUMSHOE investigative horror game by Robin Laws

My most recent purchase was a PDF copy of the old D&D module B4: The Lost City.  I have a hardcopy of it somewhere, but I recently moved and it is boxed up somewhere in that warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.  

I got an idea to convert it using the ZeFRS RPG system so I had to have it in my hot little hands without the hassle of digging through storage.  The Internet is a wonderful tool of instant gratification.  


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Recently I've picked up:

Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium (new edition) - Very good reworking of the original.  Very happy with this so far.  (Original backstory gone.)

Spirit of the Century -very impressed, I'm hoping it will save a game that has gone onto hiatus due to a lack of appropriate mechanics.

Armageddon - on clearance at local FLGS, looking for a flavor of Classic Unisystem that can handle a high-power fantasy rpg.  This is also looking good.

Conspiracy X 2nd edition - cause it looks cool, and I wanted a good basic Classic Unisystem set of rules (this was before my Armageddon purchase).

Vampire: The Requiem - for a game I'm playing in (found excellent copy at Half-Price Books that was marked at $7.99 for some reason).

Stuff! for EABA - Great supplement for building things (from weapons to vehicles to gadgets to creatures to civilizations).  Finally got a hardcopy a few months back.

Quote from: The Good AssyrianI got an idea to convert it using the ZeFRS RPG system so I had to have it in my hot little hands without the hassle of digging through storage.  The Internet is a wonderful tool of instant gratification.  

Good move. ZeFRS is great for running old-style D&D adventures. I've had a conversion of B10- Night's Dark Terror on the back burner for a few months now, and really should get back to it.

One piece of advice though. Freshly made characters using the RAW can be extremely fragile, so you may want to look at awarding a sizable number of bonus points from the get-go. Other than that minor quibble it's an amazingly smooth system that emulates the S&S genre admirably.

Quote from: obrynThere is that.  As I mentioned, it's pretty thoroughly a 90's game, and much of mainstream gaming was moving away from that mindset.  The mechanics and crunchy bits are in ED are a lot of fun.  Heck, it's even got reasons for dungeons built into the game.  I think the fact that it didn't concentrate on exploration & discovery is a function of its era...  Seriously, it could have had some incredible dungeon crawls had the designers spent the time doing so.


I completely agree with that, too.  Although I love the Denizens of Earthdawn books, they frankly needed more mechanics and less... writing.

-O

We had a really successful and fun ED campaign back during the day but...
I couldn't agree more. I have a bunch of stuff from ED 1e. At first, I loved all the setting stuff, and the fact that, as you say, the dungeon rationale was built right into the game. Unfortunately, I found the setting stuff to be way overdone, and a bit stifling. The combat system is loads of fun to play, though, once you get used to the funky dice and what not.
At one point, I considered creating a home brew with it, but it's hard to envision you're own world with it's own feel when Barsaive is being crammed down your throat in virtually every sentence of every section of each book. Creatures of Barsaive is a good example of this problem: 118 pages long, with only 50 creatures to show for it. The rest of the space is taken up by some nice art, and some not so nice, long winded  semi-cutesy descriptions of each monster from the POV of a dragon.  Each creature could have easily been presented in 25% of the space- and still had plenty of room fro illos and fluff.
Eventually, as a campaign ending act of vengence against FASA, I destroyed Barsaive and moved on to another game.

Quote from: DrewGood move. ZeFRS is great for running old-style D&D adventures. I've had a conversion of B10- Night's Dark Terror on the back burner for a few months now, and really should get back to it.

One piece of advice though. Freshly made characters using the RAW can be extremely fragile, so you may want to look at awarding a sizable number of bonus points from the get-go. Other than that minor quibble it's an amazingly smooth system that emulates the S&S genre admirably.

Thanks for the advice, Drew!  I have already come across that problem when setting up some initial games with my friends.  The stock enemies and foes from the old Conan RPG can kick the ass of pretty much any starting character, so I had to tone them down a bit.  A fellow on the ZeFRS forum with the handle of Artikid has produced a neat beastiary that has a good mix of opponents, many of which are quite suitable for challenging beginning characters.

In any case, if your interested in checking out my conversion for The Lost City, you can find the first four levels here:

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I just bought Monte Cook's World of Darkness.

A booster package of STAR WARS D20 miniatures - in the hope of finding a few that might be usable in my GURPS:TRAVELLER campaign.

Sad thing is I may have to repaint the Queen Amidala fig and give her gray hair. I would be modifying a "rare" figure - according to WotC's insert .


- Ed C.