This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

World of Synnibar - the Comebackening!

Started by VacuumJockey, May 25, 2012, 07:02:48 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1 2 3 4
User actions

VacuumJockey

May 25, 2012, 07:02:48 AM
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-World-of-Synnibarr/43785133088

That's right, Synnibar Next is being playtested right now! As I never had a chance to read the original, I guess this is where I get to say "I'll buy that for a dollar!"

Although realistically, I can't see any way that a project of this magnitude can be sold for less than $30. Still, I'm game. :)

Marleycat

#1
May 25, 2012, 07:14:33 AM
Mods? Can we merge this?

Thank. You.:D
Don\'t mess with cats we kill wizards in one blow.;)

Bloody Stupid Johnson

#2
May 25, 2012, 07:34:04 AM
Surely Synnibarr is awesome enough to deserve at least 2 threads...! Maybe we can use this one for tracking Facebook updates.
 
Kind of amused by the "calories" thing. Weight gain was always the key to power in Synnibarr, except that in the older editions it helped you be immune to stuff like disintegration instead of powering super powers directly.

DestroyYouAlot

#3
May 25, 2012, 08:37:05 AM
Quote from: Bloody Stupid Johnson;542208Surely Synnibarr is awesome enough to deserve at least 2 threads...!

3!  (Although #2 is a branchoff, logging my attempt to whip up a Synnibarr sandbox.)

I just got a new version day before yesterday, it contains some interesting new adjustments and clarifications based on the first rounds of testing.  Trying to get some folks over this weekend for some arena fights (the playtest suggests pitting characters against each other to learn the combat system before throwing them into the sample adventure - any characters killed during the exercise are returned to life ;) ).
http://mightythews.blogspot.com/

a gaming blog where I ramble like a madman and make fun of shit

Ghost Whistler

#4
May 25, 2012, 08:48:48 AM
I don't believe these infamous games really exist.

It's just an online bogeyman created by the elders to scare the womenfolk and the children.
"Ghost Whistler" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.

Spike

#5
May 25, 2012, 11:31:53 AM
Believe. I've own two or three copies of Synnibar. I'm never quite sure what happens to them after I've bought them, mind you... Its possible that they simply get edited out of my memory/vision as a defense mechanism so that the insanity doesn't spread...

... but where else can I find a picture of an ambulatory badger holding a Midnight Sunstone Bazooka?

Heck: Where else can I find Midnight Sunstone Bazookas?

Just say that a few times, let the awesome awfulness of that soak into your pores.
For you the day you found a minor error in a Post by Spike and forced him to admit it, it was the greatest day of your internet life.  For me it was... Tuesday.

For the curious: Apparently, in person, I sound exactly like the Youtube Character The Nostalgia Critic.   I have no words.

[URL=https:

Ghost Whistler

#6
May 25, 2012, 11:48:56 AM
Are you sure you didn't just buy a copy of Exalted and feed it after midnight?
"Ghost Whistler" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.

Spike

#7
May 25, 2012, 12:14:22 PM
That may be the origins of Exalted, seeing as Synnibar predates it by a good decade.

Yes...



... I do believe I like this theory.  Exalted is what happens when you feed Synnibar after midnight!
For you the day you found a minor error in a Post by Spike and forced him to admit it, it was the greatest day of your internet life.  For me it was... Tuesday.

For the curious: Apparently, in person, I sound exactly like the Youtube Character The Nostalgia Critic.   I have no words.

[URL=https:

Silverlion

#8
May 25, 2012, 05:23:32 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;542227I don't believe these infamous games really exist.

It's just an online bogeyman created by the elders to scare the womenfolk and the children.

I saw one in a comic book store once. It was HUGE book for the time, and flipping through it made laugh and laugh
High Valor REVISED: A fantasy Dark Age RPG. Available NOW!
Hearts & Souls 2E Coming in 2019

Bradford C. Walker

#9
May 25, 2012, 05:28:07 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;542227I don't believe these infamous games really exist.

It's just an online bogeyman created by the elders to scare the womenfolk and the children.
I own a copy of Synnibarr's second edition and its one supplement.  You have not WTFed until you see the entry for Psielves and read that they deliberately modelled their guild on The Gestapo.  That's right: Nazi Gestapo Psi Elves.

TristramEvans

#10
May 25, 2012, 06:59:17 PM
Synnibar was AWESOME! Can't wait for the new edition!

Marleycat

#11
May 25, 2012, 09:57:17 PM
Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;542406I own a copy of Synnibarr's second edition and its one supplement.  You have not WTFed until you see the entry for Psielves and read that they deliberately modelled their guild on The Gestapo.  That's right: Nazi Gestapo Psi Elves.

It's things like this and Amazon Women as a character choice that virtually guarantee that I will be getting this book. :D
Don\'t mess with cats we kill wizards in one blow.;)

Bradford C. Walker

#12
May 25, 2012, 10:11:48 PM
Quote from: Marleycat;542470It's things like this and Amazon Women as a character choice that virtually guarantee that I will be getting this book. :D
I knew a guy, 20 years ago, whose first TRPG was TWoS.  His first PC was an Amazon, and he was one of the guys who got their PC to Immortality.  A few years later, he knocked up his girlfriend and married the woman.  She bore him a daughter.

He named the little lass after his Synnibarr character: Jackie.  I hope she took after her dad, because he's a former athlete.

Marleycat

#13
May 25, 2012, 10:20:03 PM
Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;542473I knew a guy, 20 years ago, whose first TRPG was TWoS.  His first PC was an Amazon, and he was one of the guys who got their PC to Immortality.  A few years later, he knocked up his girlfriend and married the woman.  She bore him a daughter.

He named the little lass after his Synnibarr character: Jackie.  I hope she took after her dad, because he's a former athlete.

Ha, his girlfriend lets him name his daughter after his Synibarr character, that's love right there.
Don\'t mess with cats we kill wizards in one blow.;)

RPGPundit

#14
May 26, 2012, 01:05:02 PM
Quote from: Spike;542282That may be the origins of Exalted, seeing as Synnibar predates it by a good decade.

Yes...



... I do believe I like this theory.  Exalted is what happens when you feed Synnibar after midnight!

It becomes pretentious and lame?

RPGPundit
LION & DRAGON: Medieval-Authentic OSR Roleplaying is available now! You only THINK you\'ve played \'medieval fantasy\' until you play L&D.


My Blog:  http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/
The most famous uruguayan gaming blog on the planet!

NEW!
Check out my short OSR supplements series; The RPGPundit Presents!


Dark Albion: The Rose War! The OSR fantasy setting of the history that inspired Shakespeare and Martin alike.
Also available in Variant Cover form!
Also, now with the CULTS OF CHAOS cult-generation sourcebook

ARROWS OF INDRA
Arrows of Indra: The Old-School Epic Indian RPG!
NOW AVAILABLE: AoI in print form

LORDS OF OLYMPUS
The new Diceless RPG of multiversal power, adventure and intrigue, now available.
Print
Go Up Pages1 2 3 4
User actions