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orinoco
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A perfect world...
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Oct 28 16:11 UTC 1995 |
What would your ideal gaming system/mileu have to include?
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willett
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response 1 of 38:
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Oct 28 16:48 UTC 1995 |
lots of furry criters to hug and play with.
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setzer
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response 2 of 38:
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Oct 28 17:50 UTC 1995 |
Lots of big swords and axes to kill the furry little critters!!!!!
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coyote
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response 3 of 38:
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Oct 28 22:22 UTC 1995 |
MANY S
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coyote
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response 4 of 38:
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Oct 28 22:22 UTC 1995 |
sorry about #3... I messed up. <Coyote Blushes a nice shad of off-pink>
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hoagy
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response 5 of 38:
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Oct 29 07:47 UTC 1995 |
It'd be devoid of players who want super-powerful
weapons, armour, spells and just want to get to the end of the game.
(That's the realistic side)
The fantasy world would be a huge (and I mean huge) planet
about 10 to 20 times the size of the earth (our earth). It'd
be a fascinating combination of oodles and oodles of races,
creatures, classes, and whatnot. The possibilities would be
endless, or at least near-endless.
Several types of environments would work, but only in their
realm. Perhaps magic cannot exist in area "A", and only psionic
powers function in areas "J" and "X", et cetera.
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orinoco
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response 6 of 38:
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Oct 29 14:53 UTC 1995 |
In my opinion, a perfect world would let a player play *anything*.
They want to be a chipmunk with an UZI? Sure! They want to be a god?
We can manage that!
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matthew
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response 7 of 38:
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Oct 29 15:12 UTC 1995 |
I've tried running games where I told the players they could play
anything from any genre they wanted to. The odd thing is they
rarely went over the edge. In a few cases I had to urge them to
do something a little more powerful so they could keep up with
the scenario.
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setzer
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response 8 of 38:
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Oct 29 22:37 UTC 1995 |
Hehehehe!!! A chipmunk wielding an uzi!!! When a chipmunk can kill an
army of dragons, somethings definently wrong!!!!!!!!!!
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starwolf
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response 9 of 38:
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Oct 30 17:00 UTC 1995 |
Put the worlds from Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" and David Edding's
"Belgariad" & "malloreon" Series into a blender, set to "Puree". Serve warm.
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matthew
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response 10 of 38:
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Oct 30 18:07 UTC 1995 |
RE #9- That's a truly scary combination. Throw in a sprinke of the
Elenium and the Tamuli jsut to spice it up a little too.
One of my favorite genres to play/run is the settings created by
Charles DeLint in his books. If you never read any of these, start
now !
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jamie
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response 11 of 38:
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Nov 8 03:56 UTC 1995 |
Also, add the world of the "Redwall" series of books and Raymond Feist's
"Riftwar" series worlds, blend those in, and serve on a Niven-type Ringworld
for lots of wierd stuff on an area hundreds of times the size of Earth. You
could set a room full of cartographers to work for a year and not run out
of space!
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eldrich
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response 12 of 38:
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Nov 8 22:05 UTC 1995 |
Riftwar?
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matthew
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response 13 of 38:
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Nov 9 02:50 UTC 1995 |
The Riftwar saga is a fantasy series of epic proportions by Raymond Feist.
It's an excellent series !
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jamie
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response 14 of 38:
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Nov 9 23:29 UTC 1995 |
Two worlds of vastly different magical levels and fighting abilities come
together by a magical rift, one trying to invade the other for metals....
It's very cool, especially some of the political maneuvering that takes place
on one of the worlds.
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matthew
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response 15 of 38:
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Nov 10 13:43 UTC 1995 |
(continuing drift) A great set of sompanion books is the _Daughter of
the Empire_ books, co-written by Feist anf Janny Wurts. These booksa
are set on the world on the other side of the Rift (of the Riftwar books)
incredibly well done : lots of action adventure and political intrigue.
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orinoco
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response 16 of 38:
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Nov 11 02:46 UTC 1995 |
you want epic action and political intrigue, go for DUNE. I must admit,
the ending is not what I would have liked, but it's a good book
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eldrich
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response 17 of 38:
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Nov 12 01:30 UTC 1995 |
Books, let me see....
The Rose of the Prophet series by Weis and Hickman.
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kain
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response 18 of 38:
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Nov 12 15:00 UTC 1995 |
HECK YEAH! Also The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
great books
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mneme
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response 19 of 38:
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Nov 13 02:22 UTC 1995 |
THe Fiest stuff is actually indirectly based on a preexisting game world;
it's Glorantia, I think, though I'd have to chck my sources to be sure.
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jamie
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response 20 of 38:
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Nov 13 02:57 UTC 1995 |
Yes! I love the _Daughter of the Empire_ series! Not as midieval as the
Riftwar saga, which is what draws me to most fantasy, but I really liked the
politics and the Game of the Council.
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orinoco
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response 21 of 38:
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Nov 14 02:43 UTC 1995 |
I don't much like most straight fantasy. I prefer a combination of technology
from sci-fi and the chivalry and politics of fantasy a la DUNE...yes,
I'm obsessed...its just the best mileu i've seen in a long time.
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starwolf
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response 22 of 38:
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Nov 14 16:42 UTC 1995 |
DUNE kicked butt, but the movie's ending sucked
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matthew
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response 23 of 38:
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Nov 14 20:00 UTC 1995 |
RE #19: The Empire world bears a strong resemblance to the old rpg
world _The Empire of teh Petal Throne_
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eldrich
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response 24 of 38:
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Nov 14 23:38 UTC 1995 |
I don't like sci-fi, espesialy militaristic stuff. Post-apocalypse gets to me
some too.
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