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[Mephisto]

My latest obsession is RuneQuest (of the Mongoose variety as it's the most likely of the lot to be found in the three local Half Price Books and the used game shop).

I think I'm doing it wrong. I ran one adventure using my general system of choice (GURPS) but it's a little complicated for a newbie GM to teach to four people who have never heard of it.

I wanted something easier so, in my brilliance, I decided to read the Ars Magica books a coworker gave me. The one-shot adventure I read said character creation would take four hours and you should instead use thirty minutes to hand out and explain the packaged pre-gens. I finally decided to move on when I realized that everyone probably doesn't want to play a mage and everyone probably doesn't want to have to create multiple characters.

That brings me to RuneQuest. I finally picked up the core book after buying about eight others. I haven't given it a cover-to-cover reading yet (I'm in the process) but it should be just close enough to D&D for them to be somewhat comfortable - stats are mostly 4d6b3, except for Int and Size (2d6+3 but I'll probably do 3d6b2 + 3 just to keep with the roll and keep theme), a big equipment list, and two books of monsters that I've found thus far. The only sticking point I've found thus far might be character advancement being skill-based. I'm not sure if base attributes can ever be raised and I don't think characters can ever gain more hit points.

But hey, the character sheets look nice and will likely force me to throw out my multifunction inkjet and get a laser printer of some type.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Well *someone* has to clean up the blood.
Viscera Cleanup Maid Detail RPG when?

When I finish reading the rules and make up the scenario, that's when.

EDIT: You know, I probably shouldn't be so surprised that Maid RPG is so fetishistic. Yet at the same time I am.

[Sergius]

I think I'm going to start a Fate "mini-campaign" with some friends ripping off the setting of either the X-Universe or Star Control II.

[Bohandas]

Cut to now, we find out that she had ignored all of it, and basically just rewritten the plot so that the NPC she'd spent the game hitting on (very old lich, very uninterested) falls in love with her toon and they happily forever after.

Wait, were you playing Toon?

[Mephisto]

Cut to now, we find out that she had ignored all of it, and basically just rewritten the plot so that the NPC she'd spent the game hitting on (very old lich, very uninterested) falls in love with her toon and they happily forever after.

Wait, were you playing Toon?

More generally, toon is sometimes used to refer to a player character of any system. No, I don't know why.

[Tack]

Yeah... Not sure where that slang came from. Feeling kinda self-conscious about it. I don't even play WoW.

But no I was playing Pathfinder.

I think I'm going to start a Fate "mini-campaign" with some friends ripping off the setting of either the X-Universe or Star Control II.

Also thinking of trying out a Fate game based on the Witcher, or the Discworld series.

[Twinwolf]

...Any chance it's a Play-by-Post?

[Rolan7]

Star Control 2 has such a great setting.  I would try to do something with it but I know I wouldn't do it justice.  I wonder if anyone else has...
... Well, there's Zarla's fanfics and art, but they're mostly quite silly.  Though she did add some depth to the VUX.  Better than what SC3 did with them.

[Sergius]

Heck, if I do SC2 I'm going to rip the entire story verbatim. Well, the "goals" or whatever. I'm pretty confident none of the possible players have played it.
It would be open ended tho, not a laundry list of 100 things that must be done.

I'm not completely sure they're game for a scifi game tho. I think they're more into D&D and Vampire.

[Mephisto]

So a few weeks ago there was a big hubbub on the rpg.net forums about a little ebook called "Tournament of Rapists" on DriveThruRPG.com. It has since been pulled by the publisher.

And now there's a mysterious bundle up for $25 with no explanation - the RAINN RPG bundle - with all proceeds going to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.

At about the same time, they put up the RAINN Fiction bundle and RAINN Comic bundle but those aren't really tabletop-related.

[Bohandas]

Is it still available elsewhere

[Mephisto]

All signs point to no, but Black Tokyo (the game it's a supplement for) is still up.

[Bohandas]

Cut to now, we find out that she had ignored all of it, and basically just rewritten the plot so that the NPC she'd spent the game hitting on (very old lich, very uninterested) falls in love with her toon and they happily forever after.

Wait, were you playing Toon?

More generally, toon is sometimes used to refer to a player character of any system. No, I don't know why.

I've not encountered that before

[Sergius]

Heck, if I do SC2 I'm going to rip the entire story verbatim. Well, the "goals" or whatever. I'm pretty confident none of the possible players have played it.
It would be open ended tho, not a laundry list of 100 things that must be done.

I'm not completely sure they're game for a scifi game tho. I think they're more into D&D and Vampire.

I have decided I will go ahead with a Star Control II campaign despite of my table's setting preferences, but I will adjust it to match the genre, so if they're dead set on a swords & sorcery campaign I'll just pretend they're fantasy races and the galaxy is an ocean with islands/continents and I'll figure out the tech as some combination of gnomish inventions and magick. This could actually turn out pretty fun.

[GiglameshDespair]

Could do magic space travel Spelljammer style.