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True20 Settings: the Self-Loathing

Started by RPGPundit, January 23, 2007, 01:46:01 PM

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#15
January 25, 2007, 10:58:43 AM
Yeah, like I said, he's a failed writer. He only ever writes garbage.  Whether its garbage that's popular with the RPG.net crowd (it almost always is) doesn't really figure into it.

As for Baugh's time on RPG.net; if he hasn't been there as much recently it would be due to some personal issues he has regarding his health, which he has droned on and on and on and on about on his blog, along with all his efforts at weight loss.

I don't usually mock people for their obesity, but if you feel the need to blather constantly about how you're half a pound down here or two pounds up there then I think I'm going to feel justified in calling you a pathetic Fat Bastard.

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January 25, 2007, 05:47:36 PM
Quote from: Consonant DudeTrue20 will be forgotten real soon as a watered-down alternative to d20. There's not much that could be done about it.
I dunno. Nothing about it seems watered down to me. What are you basing that on?
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#17
January 26, 2007, 02:18:18 AM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonLet's just say the book is no Transhuman Space

I dunno, I have (and enjoy) THS but I've found the four settings in Ex Machina to be just as interesting.

Bruce's setting is Heaven Over Mountain, in case anyone is curious.
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#18
January 26, 2007, 06:35:49 AM
Quote from: Consonant DudeI dunno, I have (and enjoy) THS but I've found the four settings in Ex Machina to be just as interesting.

Bruce's setting is Heaven Over Mountain, in case anyone is curious.

I've just discovered he was a collaborator of some sort of George R.R. Martin in A song of Ice and Fire.
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January 26, 2007, 07:04:19 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditYeah, like I said, he's a failed writer. He only ever writes garbage.  Whether its garbage that's popular with the RPG.net crowd (it almost always is) doesn't really figure into it.

As for Baugh's time on RPG.net; if he hasn't been there as much recently it would be due to some personal issues he has regarding his health, which he has droned on and on and on and on about on his blog, along with all his efforts at weight loss.

I don't usually mock people for their obesity, but if you feel the need to blather constantly about how you're half a pound down here or two pounds up there then I think I'm going to feel justified in calling you a pathetic Fat Bastard.

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I tend to assume with blogs that only those interested in the blogger and their life read them, if Bruce wishes to talk about his weight that seems to me as sensible a topic as most in a blog, after all, one wouldn't read it unless one were interested in how Bruce was doing and what he was thinking.

Issues like that can be very serious for people, he has my sympathies.  Heaven over Mountain was generally well received incidentally.

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#20
January 28, 2007, 10:28:08 PM
Question -

The comment was made that the games dealt with "humans".  Are there any games that allow you to play from the side of "aliens"?  I don't mean the type of game where "alien = elf".  Anything where you are able to create or have a drastically different world/culture?
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#21
January 29, 2007, 05:13:52 AM
Quote from: Consonant DudeBruce's setting is Heaven Over Mountain, in case anyone is curious.

I've dug it out and re-read it.  It's a good setting - a really good setting in places.  I think I just didn't grasp just how big the beanstalk was.  I can really see how these ideas developed into his take on Gamma World.  It's a huge shame he screwed up the implementation and didn't understand the setting
 

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#22
January 29, 2007, 06:57:26 AM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonI've dug it out and re-read it.  It's a good setting - a really good setting in places.  I think I just didn't grasp just how big the beanstalk was.  I can really see how these ideas developed into his take on Gamma World.  It's a huge shame he screwed up the implementation and didn't understand the setting

I don't like Bruce's Gamma World myself, I think it's fatally flawed by being linked to a game which it really isn't, it's a new thing with the Gamma World logo pasted over it.

But that's one blip, the guy has a really solid design history behind him and he does quality work, Pundit's loathing of him doesn't change that and nor does one not so great product.

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#23
January 29, 2007, 01:37:35 PM
Quote from: BalbinusBut that's one blip, the guy has a really solid design history behind him and he does quality work, Pundit's loathing of him doesn't change that and nor does one not so great product.

He wrote the "Darkness Revealed" trilogy? That rocks, shame about the system.  One day I'll hold a group together for long enough to run it
 
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