From lev at rpgreview.net Fri Sep 2 05:29:27 2011 From: lev at rpgreview.net (lev at rpgreview.net) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:29:27 +1000 Subject: [Churchofgaming] GURPS This Sunday? Message-ID: <4160141718cd2ed1d1c540a7b73277c1.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net> Having had a week out of sync, I take it we're returning to the usual sequence which means it's GURPS this week. Oh, and if anyone's interested at 12.30 the Philosophy Forum is having a discussion on artificial intelligence... "Machines That Think: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness?" A Philosophy Forum discussion at the Melbourne Unitarian Church hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne, at 12.30pm Hope you can come along! Best wishes, Lev Some Background Reading: The Soul of the Machines: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness http://www.lightbringers.net/node/6 Definition, History, Usage and Future of Computer Data Storage or how technological improvements challenge mass media with individual media http://www.organdi.net/article.php3?id_article=82&lang=en From catodon at whale-mail.com Fri Sep 2 09:43:52 2011 From: catodon at whale-mail.com (Carl Brown) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:43:52 -0700 Subject: [Churchofgaming] GURPS This Sunday? Message-ID: <05A21ABE36874711B416A436D822C319@mail2world.com> Yes GURPS this weekend The problem with disscussions about AI and conciousness is they never seem to get past trying to find an agreement on what is meant by conciousness. ;P <-----Original Message-----> >From: lev at rpgreview.net [lev at rpgreview.net] >Sent: 9/2/2011 3:29:27 PM >To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] GURPS This Sunday? > >Having had a week out of sync, I take it we're returning to the usual >sequence which means it's GURPS this week. > >Oh, and if anyone's interested at 12.30 the Philosophy Forum is having a >discussion on artificial intelligence... > >"Machines That Think: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial >Consciousness?" > >A Philosophy Forum discussion at the Melbourne Unitarian Church hall, 110 >Grey Street, East Melbourne, at 12.30pm > >Hope you can come along! > >Best wishes, > > >Lev > >Some Background Reading: > >The Soul of the Machines: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial >Consciousness > >http://www.lightbringers.net/node/6 > >Definition, History, Usage and Future of Computer Data Storage >or how technological improvements challenge mass media with individual media > >http://www.organdi.net/article.php3?id_article=82?=en > > >_______________________________________________ >Churchofgaming mailing list >Churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/churchofgaming_rpgreview.net >. >

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However, with new players and a fortnightly > schedule we may still have a slot or two open for other games. > There are probably several who would like to run games in any spare slots. > If so, I’m sure we can figure something out. > There are two broad options: we could run one-off games (see previous email > for some ideas). Alternately, we could start another campaign. > Assuming the later, here is a list of campaigns I feel I can run with the > amount of prep time I have. Each has a 100 word summary. > I propose a vote. > > Please let me know your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd preference. > > If anything looks similar to something you want to run don’t vote for > it, I’d like to add variety to our schedule. Your first vote will get > three points, your second two, and your third one. Not quite true > preferential voting but this works with small numbers of voters. > > Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age > Diaspora > Gulliver’s Trading Company > Kong: Skull Island > Mars: Savage Worlds > Conan > Legends of Anglere > Classic Traveller > Tunnels and Trolls > Space 1889 > Tunnel Quest > Cyberpunk 2020 > AD&D: Olde School Dungeon > Fighting Fantasy > > Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age > Forge a legend with bronze and oratory! A few centuries after Creation the > gods meddle and faith drives pre-modern polytheistic cultures. Each culture > presented blends several historical inspirations and adds twists. Elder > peoples still dominate the world, choose from 14 iconic fantasy species, > including dragons and titans! Each player takes the role of a notable > individual or a fellowship of mortals. PCs begin as people of moderate or no > importance then over 400 years fight wars, found cities that grow into > civilisations, and lead cults that become great religions. A one-off Mythic > Age adventure at COG was well received. > > Diaspora > For millennia we have travelled the stars, worlds have been terraformed, and > civilisations rise and fall in great cycles. Hard science-fiction > role-playing with FATE. Harder than Traveller; no quasi-magical > anti-gravity, inertia-less drives, convergent evolution, etc. The exception > is FTL. Very high transhuman technology is almost impossible to achieve and > extinguishes the society that holds it. The result is ‘blue collar > space’. The players design ‘thumbnails’ of plausible local > solar systems in the first session. For advice on terrformed worlds see > Lev’s excellent article in Rpg Review 11. For plausible alien life see > Rpg Review 12. Guest referees are encouraged. > > Gulliver’s Trading Company > Based on FATE 2e and playtested here at COG. Some of you have probably had > enough of GTC, but I live in hope. For those new here… > As well as Lilliputians and giants there is a flying island, savants rapt in > trances, professors trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, sorcerers, > ghosts, cursed immortals, talking horses, and unexplored continents. > Gulliver’s Trading Company is a roleplaying game of exploration of > strange lands in the 18th century. It is based on the classic satirical > novel Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver’s son > organises trading expeditions to the remote countries described in his > father’s book. > > Kong: Skull Island > Hostile jungle, dinosaurs, lost civilisations, giant gorillas. Explore the > lost world of Skull Island. Adventures are centuries or decades apart; watch > the mysteries of Skull Island unfold. The desperate first years of human > colonisation of skull island millennia ago, the height of the Wall > Builder’s civilisation, any period when ships are wrecked on the rocks, > the 1930’s scientific expeditions, and dramatic last days before the > island sank beneath the waves in the 1940’s. There could even be > chances to play a mighty 30’ ape. Quickly generate period characters > around a stable core. Possible Game systems: T&T, Fantasy Craft, GTC/FATE > 2e. > > Mars: Savage Worlds > Mars as it should be – ancient, dying, but not yet dead. A vast canal > network brings water and life to spired cities. As a dashing native of Mars, > take up your sabre and blaster and race out for swashbuckling adventure! > Explore dead cities. Fight the legions of the Ape Empire! Battle green brute > warriors! Uncover the mysteries of ancient polar stations. All the while > deep below the surface ancient and terrible intellects slowly and surely > draw their plans. I have never run the Savage Worlds rules but the system is > rules light and designed to be fast playing. Uses miniatures/counters. > > Conan > Forget what you think you know. In Howard’s tales Conan rarely wears a > loin-cloth and prefers swordswomen at his side to a dancing girls at his > feet. A detailed fantasy world created decades before Tolkien. A d20 game > heavily modified to emulate the bloodthirsty swordplay, corrupting sorcery, > and varied cultures of the Hyborian Age. Creatures of human or near-human > intelligence are feared man-apes or supernatural monsters. Parties do not > have to fill all the traditional roles; a party can be made up of characters > of one class or have a mix of classes including barbarians, nobles, > soldiers, scholars, and pirates. > > Legends of Anglere > Despite it’s title LOA is not tied to s specific setting. LOA is a > toolkit for building fantasy worlds in FATE. LOA describes everything like a > character. Generate worlds, nations, cities, guilds, ships etc. > We will gradually build a world. A ‘session zero’ will sketch out > the solar system world and cosmology. After that odd sessions will be for > world building and will include large-scale game play to advance the events > of the world. In even sessions connected adventures will feature items > created in odd sessions. Core PC species vary by world examples: elves, > dwarves, Halflings, fawns, centaurs and dragons. > > Classic Traveller > 3000 years from now The Third Imperium of humanity dominates known space. A > 1977 classic that has quirks but plays well today. Traveller is a popular > and detailed science fiction universe for rpg. Traveller is 2/3 hard science > and 1/3 space opera. There is a limited FTL hyperdrive, reactionless drives > and other ‘impossible’ technologies but no FTL ‘radio’. > The Imperium is governed by neo-feudalism and individual worlds are largely > free to govern themselves. Aliens tend to be Star-Wars-esque in appearance > but are generally better thought out. I have access to almost all the > material produced for this original version of Traveller. > > Tunnels and Trolls 5.5 > Generate your bloodthirsty greedy heroes and send them into a monster filled > dungeon. Kill things! Take their stuff! > Uncomplicated and easy to learn. My house rules provide wider choices for > player characters and tactical combat. With the name Tunnels and Trolls the > campaign should have both of these. I imagine long ago there was an Empire > of the Dwarves that built numerous mines and cities under the earth with > troll slave labour. The Empire fell long ago but the mines and barrows await > adventurers including the usual elves, etc. but also trolls, leprechauns, > shapeshifters, firbolgs, awakened beasts etc. as PC’s > > Space 1889 > Science fiction adventure in a more civilised time. Generate your Victorian > era character and set off to sail the stately canals of Mars, trek the > dinosaur ridden swamps of Venus, foil agents of the Kaiser in the jungles of > the Congo, invent strange devices, and finish your day with a nice cup of > tea or a gin and tonic. Some allowance made for alien PC’s but majority > will be human and probably British. Think Verne and Wells with a dash of > Boroughs and you’re on the right track. A nice setting but the combat > system is a but clunky. > > Tunnel Quest > Tunnel Quest is a small simple yet powerful rpg by Mike Hill designed to be > played by non-gamers like curious relatives around Christmas time. Despite > being very simple it has all the features of a full size game: classes, > skills, character advancement, treasure, and spell-casting. A short simple > rules set but with enough variety to satisfy veteran gamers. Rpg review 12 > has rules that add elves and other PCs species. I use the first version of > the game and can freely distribute those rules. The setting is a generic > fantasy with a Celt/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon feel. Adventures will be varied > including wilderness, court intrigue, mysteries, not just dungeons. > > Cyberpunk 2020 > Inspired by Gibson, Sterling and others this is the classic 80’s game > of a dystopian 2020AD. Under the influence of rapid technological change > society begins to fragment. Individuals too loose their humanity as implants > and prosthetics boost their capabilities but erode their empathy. Cyberpunk > generates characters with detail previous lives, a range of implanted > technology, and skills suited to defined archetypes of the genre. To get > into the role remember “style over substance, attitude is everything, > live on the edge”. Roles include mercenaries, hackers, celebrities, > nomads, technicians, paramedics, journalists, cops, corporates, and > ‘fixers’. > > AD&D: Enormous Olde School Dungeon > I have more supplements and articles than you can poke a stick at providing > a HUGE amount of player choice for characters. An enormous largely randomly > generated dungeon. The largest stronghold ever built by dwarves situated on > rich lodes of precious metals. Then came the blue fever, goblin invasions, > and finally the ‘Black Crusade’ that destroyed diplomatic > relations with the Empire. The stronghold was overrun. Now, with the aid of > several allies, the dwarves have established two settlements within the old > stronghold and seek to eventually gain control of it all. This is a big > 1970’s style dungeon that doesn’t hold up to close logical > scrutiny. > > Fighting Fantasy > Generate your bloodthirsty greedy warriors and send them into monster filled > dungeons. Kill things! Take their stuff! The group rpg version of the > favourite of 12 year olds the world over. Really simple rules; initially you > all play warriors, then after a few games we’ll add skills, spells, > elves, and dwarves. The setting is generic fantasy much resembling 70’s > AD&D, the rules are very simple good for ‘beer and pretzels’ > jaunts or playing with kids but the system lacks the teeth for a sustained > campaign and experienced players will find the limitations on character > choices frustrating. > > > > Care2 makes it easy for everyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and > impact the causes you care about most. Over 12 Million members! > http://www.care2.com > > Feed a child by searching the web! Learn how http://www.care2.com/toolbar Hi, Carl! My votes: 1st: Space 1889 2nd: Conan 3rd: Classic Traveller hold on, that IS the right spelling of "Traveller". Bloody spell check . . . Yours, Jay > > _______________________________________________ > Churchofgaming mailing list > Churchofgaming at rpgreview.net > http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/churchofgaming_rpgreview.net > > From catodon at whale-mail.com Thu Sep 15 10:38:06 2011 From: catodon at whale-mail.com (Carl Brown) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:38:06 -0700 Subject: [Churchofgaming] Possible Games Message-ID: Thanks Jay. A distinctly British flavour to your choices, I noticed. Good for you, I too have had enough of upstart colonials ;) <-----Original Message-----> >From: Jay Superfluous [superfluos at gmail.com] >Sent: 9/15/2011 8:04:39 PM >To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Possible Games > >On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Carl Brown wrote: >> Possible Games: >> (Felix: if you feel some of the planescape people might be interested in a >> second game could you forward this to them?) >> >> We have finished up the Young Gods campaign. Soon the Krononauts >> 'season 1' will also end. We are looking forward to starting >> Planescape and Dark Heresy. However, with new players and a fortnightly >> schedule we may still have a slot or two open for other games. >> There are probably several who would like to run games in any spare slots. >> If so, I'm sure we can figure something out. >> There are two broad options: we could run one-off games (see previous email >> for some ideas). Alternately, we could start another campaign. >> Assuming the later, here is a list of campaigns I feel I can run with the >> amount of prep time I have. Each has a 100 word summary. >> I propose a vote. >> >> Please let me know your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd preference. >> >> If anything looks similar to something you want to run don't vote for >> it, I'd like to add variety to our schedule. Your first vote will get >> three points, your second two, and your third one. Not quite true >> preferential voting but this works with small numbers of voters. >> >> Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age >> Diaspora >> Gulliver's Trading Company >> Kong: Skull Island >> Mars: Savage Worlds >> Conan >> Legends of Anglere >> Classic Traveller >> Tunnels and Trolls >> Space 1889 >> Tunnel Quest >> Cyberpunk 2020 >> AD&D: Olde School Dungeon >> Fighting Fantasy >> >> Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age >> Forge a legend with bronze and oratory! A few centuries after Creation the >> gods meddle and faith drives pre-modern polytheistic cultures. Each culture >> presented blends several historical inspirations and adds twists. Elder >> peoples still dominate the world, choose from 14 iconic fantasy species, >> including dragons and titans! Each player takes the role of a notable >> individual or a fellowship of mortals. PCs begin as people of moderate or no >> importance then over 400 years fight wars, found cities that grow into >> civilisations, and lead cults that become great religions. A one-off Mythic >> Age adventure at COG was well received. >> >> Diaspora >> For millennia we have travelled the stars, worlds have been terraformed, and >> civilisations rise and fall in great cycles. Hard science-fiction >> role-playing with FATE. Harder than Traveller; no quasi-magical >> anti-gravity, inertia-less drives, convergent evolution, etc. The exception >> is FTL. Very high transhuman technology is almost impossible to achieve and >> extinguishes the society that holds it. The result is 'blue collar >> space'. The players design 'thumbnails' of plausible local >> solar systems in the first session. For advice on terrformed worlds see >> Lev's excellent article in Rpg Review 11. For plausible alien life see >> Rpg Review 12. Guest referees are encouraged. >> >> Gulliver's Trading Company >> Based on FATE 2e and playtested here at COG. Some of you have probably had >> enough of GTC, but I live in hope. For those new here. >> As well as Lilliputians and giants there is a flying island, savants rapt in >> trances, professors trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, sorcerers, >> ghosts, cursed immortals, talking horses, and unexplored continents. >> Gulliver's Trading Company is a roleplaying game of exploration of >> strange lands in the 18th century. It is based on the classic satirical >> novel Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's son >> organises trading expeditions to the remote countries described in his >> father's book. >> >> Kong: Skull Island >> Hostile jungle, dinosaurs, lost civilisations, giant gorillas. Explore the >> lost world of Skull Island. Adventures are centuries or decades apart; watch >> the mysteries of Skull Island unfold. The desperate first years of human >> colonisation of skull island millennia ago, the height of the Wall >> Builder's civilisation, any period when ships are wrecked on the rocks, >> the 1930's scientific expeditions, and dramatic last days before the >> island sank beneath the waves in the 1940's. There could even be >> chances to play a mighty 30' ape. Quickly generate period characters >> around a stable core. Possible Game systems: T&T, Fantasy Craft, GTC/FATE >> 2e. >> >> Mars: Savage Worlds >> Mars as it should be - ancient, dying, but not yet dead. A vast canal >> network brings water and life to spired cities. As a dashing native of Mars, >> take up your sabre and blaster and race out for swashbuckling adventure! >> Explore dead cities. Fight the legions of the Ape Empire! Battle green brute >> warriors! Uncover the mysteries of ancient polar stations. All the while >> deep below the surface ancient and terrible intellects slowly and surely >> draw their plans. I have never run the Savage Worlds rules but the system is >> rules light and designed to be fast playing. Uses miniatures/counters. >> >> Conan >> Forget what you think you know. In Howard's tales Conan rarely wears a >> loin-cloth and prefers swordswomen at his side to a dancing girls at his >> feet. A detailed fantasy world created decades before Tolkien. A d20 game >> heavily modified to emulate the bloodthirsty swordplay, corrupting sorcery, >> and varied cultures of the Hyborian Age. Creatures of human or near-human >> intelligence are feared man-apes or supernatural monsters. Parties do not >> have to fill all the traditional roles; a party can be made up of characters >> of one class or have a mix of classes including barbarians, nobles, >> soldiers, scholars, and pirates. >> >> Legends of Anglere >> Despite it's title LOA is not tied to s specific setting. LOA is a >> toolkit for building fantasy worlds in FATE. LOA describes everything like a >> character. Generate worlds, nations, cities, guilds, ships etc. >> We will gradually build a world. A 'session zero' will sketch out >> the solar system world and cosmology. After that odd sessions will be for >> world building and will include large-scale game play to advance the events >> of the world. In even sessions connected adventures will feature items >> created in odd sessions. Core PC species vary by world examples: elves, >> dwarves, Halflings, fawns, centaurs and dragons. >> >> Classic Traveller >> 3000 years from now The Third Imperium of humanity dominates known space. A >> 1977 classic that has quirks but plays well today. Traveller is a popular >> and detailed science fiction universe for rpg. Traveller is 2/3 hard science >> and 1/3 space opera. There is a limited FTL hyperdrive, reactionless drives >> and other 'impossible' technologies but no FTL 'radio'. >> The Imperium is governed by neo-feudalism and individual worlds are largely >> free to govern themselves. Aliens tend to be Star-Wars-esque in appearance >> but are generally better thought out. I have access to almost all the >> material produced for this original version of Traveller. >> >> Tunnels and Trolls 5.5 >> Generate your bloodthirsty greedy heroes and send them into a monster filled >> dungeon. Kill things! Take their stuff! >> Uncomplicated and easy to learn. My house rules provide wider choices for >> player characters and tactical combat. With the name Tunnels and Trolls the >> campaign should have both of these. I imagine long ago there was an Empire >> of the Dwarves that built numerous mines and cities under the earth with >> troll slave labour. The Empire fell long ago but the mines and barrows await >> adventurers including the usual elves, etc. but also trolls, leprechauns, >> shapeshifters, firbolgs, awakened beasts etc. as PC's >> >> Space 1889 >> Science fiction adventure in a more civilised time. Generate your Victorian >> era character and set off to sail the stately canals of Mars, trek the >> dinosaur ridden swamps of Venus, foil agents of the Kaiser in the jungles of >> the Congo, invent strange devices, and finish your day with a nice cup of >> tea or a gin and tonic. Some allowance made for alien PC's but majority >> will be human and probably British. Think Verne and Wells with a dash of >> Boroughs and you're on the right track. A nice setting but the combat >> system is a but clunky. >> >> Tunnel Quest >> Tunnel Quest is a small simple yet powerful rpg by Mike Hill designed to be >> played by non-gamers like curious relatives around Christmas time. Despite >> being very simple it has all the features of a full size game: classes, >> skills, character advancement, treasure, and spell-casting. A short simple >> rules set but with enough variety to satisfy veteran gamers. Rpg review 12 >> has rules that add elves and other PCs species. I use the first version of >> the game and can freely distribute those rules. The setting is a generic >> fantasy with a Celt/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon feel. Adventures will be varied >> including wilderness, court intrigue, mysteries, not just dungeons. >> >> Cyberpunk 2020 >> Inspired by Gibson, Sterling and others this is the classic 80's game >> of a dystopian 2020AD. Under the influence of rapid technological change >> society begins to fragment. Individuals too loose their humanity as implants >> and prosthetics boost their capabilities but erode their empathy. Cyberpunk >> generates characters with detail previous lives, a range of implanted >> technology, and skills suited to defined archetypes of the genre. To get >> into the role remember "style over substance, attitude is everything, >> live on the edge". Roles include mercenaries, hackers, celebrities, >> nomads, technicians, paramedics, journalists, cops, corporates, and >> 'fixers'. >> >> AD&D: Enormous Olde School Dungeon >> I have more supplements and articles than you can poke a stick at providing >> a HUGE amount of player choice for characters. An enormous largely randomly >> generated dungeon. The largest stronghold ever built by dwarves situated on >> rich lodes of precious metals. Then came the blue fever, goblin invasions, >> and finally the 'Black Crusade' that destroyed diplomatic >> relations with the Empire. The stronghold was overrun. Now, with the aid of >> several allies, the dwarves have established two settlements within the old >> stronghold and seek to eventually gain control of it all. This is a big >> 1970's style dungeon that doesn't hold up to close logical >> scrutiny. >> >> Fighting Fantasy >> Generate your bloodthirsty greedy warriors and send them into monster filled >> dungeons. Kill things! Take their stuff! The group rpg version of the >> favourite of 12 year olds the world over. Really simple rules; initially you >> all play warriors, then after a few games we'll add skills, spells, >> elves, and dwarves. The setting is generic fantasy much resembling 70's >> AD&D, the rules are very simple good for 'beer and pretzels' >> jaunts or playing with kids but the system lacks the teeth for a sustained >> campaign and experienced players will find the limitations on character >> choices frustrating. >> >> >> >> Care2 makes it easy for everyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and >> impact the causes you care about most. Over 12 Million members! >> http://www.care2.com >> >> Feed a child by searching the web! Learn how http://www.care2.com/toolbar > >Hi, Carl! > >My votes: > >1st: Space 1889 >2nd: Conan >3rd: Classic Traveller > >hold on, that IS the right spelling of "Traveller". Bloody spell check . . . > >Yours, > >Jay >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Churchofgaming mailing list >> Churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >> http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/churchofgaming_rpgreview.net >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Churchofgaming mailing list >Churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/churchofgaming_rpgreview.net >. >

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Therefore voting will close 11am tomorrow for those who are going to play but have not yet voted. <-----Original Message-----> >From: lev at rpgreview.net [lev at rpgreview.net] >Sent: 9/19/2011 11:28:53 AM >To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net >Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Possible Games > >Nota bene: Resending this because we have a couple new people on the >mailing list. > >Redmond tells me that Dark Heresy will be starting in November. > >Felix I believe is getting the last touches on for Pathfinder Planescape. >Will be ready in a fortnight perhaps? > >In the meantime we have to decide on a filler game... So for those who >have not already voted, express your preference! > >Best wishes, Lev > >> Possible Games: >> (Felix: if you feel some of the planescape people might be interested in >> a second game could you forward this to them?) >> >> We have finished up the Young Gods campaign. Soon the Krononauts 'season >> 1' will also end. We are looking forward to starting Planescape and Dark >> Heresy. However, with new players and a fortnightly schedule we may >> still have a slot or two open for other games. >> There are probably several who would like to run games in any spare >> slots. If so, I'm sure we can figure something out. >> There are two broad options: we could run one-off games (see previous >> email for some ideas). Alternately, we could start another campaign. >> Assuming the later, here is a list of campaigns I feel I can run with >> the amount of prep time I have. Each has a 100 word summary. >> I propose a vote. >> >> Please let me know your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd preference. >> >> If anything looks similar to something you want to run don't vote for >> it, I'd like to add variety to our schedule. Your first vote will get >> three points, your second two, and your third one. Not quite true >> preferential voting but this works with small numbers of voters. >> >> Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age >> Diaspora >> Gulliver's Trading Company >> Kong: Skull Island >> Mars: Savage Worlds >> Conan >> Legends of Anglere >> Classic Traveller >> Tunnels and Trolls >> Space 1889 >> Tunnel Quest >> Cyberpunk 2020 >> AD&D: Olde School Dungeon >> Fighting Fantasy >> >> Fantasy Craft: Mythic Age >> Forge a legend with bronze and oratory! A few centuries after Creation >> the gods meddle and faith drives pre-modern polytheistic cultures. Each >> culture presented blends several historical inspirations and adds >> twists. Elder peoples still dominate the world, choose from 14 iconic >> fantasy species, including dragons and titans! Each player takes the >> role of a notable individual or a fellowship of mortals. PCs begin as >> people of moderate or no importance then over 400 years fight wars, >> found cities that grow into civilisations, and lead cults that become >> great religions. A one-off Mythic Age adventure at COG was well >> received. >> >> Diaspora >> For millennia we have travelled the stars, worlds have been terraformed, >> and civilisations rise and fall in great cycles. Hard science-fiction >> role-playing with FATE. Harder than Traveller; no quasi-magical >> anti-gravity, inertia-less drives, convergent evolution, etc. The >> exception is FTL. Very high transhuman technology is almost impossible >> to achieve and extinguishes the society that holds it. The result is >> 'blue collar space'. The players design 'thumbnails' of plausible local >> solar systems in the first session. For advice on terrformed worlds see >> Lev's excellent article in Rpg Review 11. For plausible alien life see >> Rpg Review 12. Guest referees are encouraged. >> >> Gulliver's Trading Company >> Based on FATE 2e and playtested here at COG. Some of you have probably >> had enough of GTC, but I live in hope. For those new here. >> As well as Lilliputians and giants there is a flying island, savants >> rapt in trances, professors trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, >> sorcerers, ghosts, cursed immortals, talking horses, and unexplored >> continents. Gulliver's Trading Company is a roleplaying game of >> exploration of strange lands in the 18th century. It is based on the >> classic satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels. >> Gulliver's son organises trading expeditions to the remote countries >> described in his father's book. >> >> Kong: Skull Island >> Hostile jungle, dinosaurs, lost civilisations, giant gorillas. Explore >> the lost world of Skull Island. Adventures are centuries or decades >> apart; watch the mysteries of Skull Island unfold. The desperate first >> years of human colonisation of skull island millennia ago, the height of >> the Wall Builder's civilisation, any period when ships are wrecked on >> the rocks, the 1930's scientific expeditions, and dramatic last days >> before the island sank beneath the waves in the 1940's. There could even >> be chances to play a mighty 30' ape. Quickly generate period characters >> around a stable core. Possible Game systems: T&T, Fantasy Craft, >> GTC/FATE 2e. >> >> Mars: Savage Worlds >> Mars as it should be - ancient, dying, but not yet dead. A vast canal >> network brings water and life to spired cities. As a dashing native of >> Mars, take up your sabre and blaster and race out for swashbuckling >> adventure! Explore dead cities. Fight the legions of the Ape Empire! >> Battle green brute warriors! Uncover the mysteries of ancient polar >> stations. All the while deep below the surface ancient and terrible >> intellects slowly and surely draw their plans. I have never run the >> Savage Worlds rules but the system is rules light and designed to be >> fast playing. Uses miniatures/counters. >> >> Conan >> Forget what you think you know. In Howard's tales Conan rarely wears a >> loin-cloth and prefers swordswomen at his side to a dancing girls at his >> feet. A detailed fantasy world created decades before Tolkien. A d20 >> game heavily modified to emulate the bloodthirsty swordplay, corrupting >> sorcery, and varied cultures of the Hyborian Age. Creatures of human or >> near-human intelligence are feared man-apes or supernatural monsters. >> Parties do not have to fill all the traditional roles; a party can be >> made up of characters of one class or have a mix of classes including >> barbarians, nobles, soldiers, scholars, and pirates. >> >> Legends of Anglere >> Despite it's title LOA is not tied to s specific setting. LOA is a >> toolkit for building fantasy worlds in FATE. LOA describes everything >> like a character. Generate worlds, nations, cities, guilds, ships etc. >> We will gradually build a world. A 'session zero' will sketch out the >> solar system world and cosmology. After that odd sessions will be for >> world building and will include large-scale game play to advance the >> events of the world. In even sessions connected adventures will feature >> items created in odd sessions. Core PC species vary by world examples: >> elves, dwarves, Halflings, fawns, centaurs and dragons. >> >> Classic Traveller >> 3000 years from now The Third Imperium of humanity dominates known >> space. A 1977 classic that has quirks but plays well today. Traveller is >> a popular and detailed science fiction universe for rpg. Traveller is >> 2/3 hard science and 1/3 space opera. There is a limited FTL hyperdrive, >> reactionless drives and other 'impossible' technologies but no FTL >> 'radio'. The Imperium is governed by neo-feudalism and individual worlds >> are largely free to govern themselves. Aliens tend to be Star-Wars-esque >> in appearance but are generally better thought out. I have access to >> almost all the material produced for this original version of Traveller. >> >> Tunnels and Trolls 5.5 >> Generate your bloodthirsty greedy heroes and send them into a monster >> filled dungeon. Kill things! Take their stuff! >> Uncomplicated and easy to learn. My house rules provide wider choices >> for player characters and tactical combat. With the name Tunnels and >> Trolls the campaign should have both of these. I imagine long ago there >> was an Empire of the Dwarves that built numerous mines and cities under >> the earth with troll slave labour. The Empire fell long ago but the >> mines and barrows await adventurers including the usual elves, etc. but >> also trolls, leprechauns, shapeshifters, firbolgs, awakened beasts etc. >> as PC's >> >> Space 1889 >> Science fiction adventure in a more civilised time. Generate your >> Victorian era character and set off to sail the stately canals of Mars, >> trek the dinosaur ridden swamps of Venus, foil agents of the Kaiser in >> the jungles of the Congo, invent strange devices, and finish your day >> with a nice cup of tea or a gin and tonic. Some allowance made for alien >> PC's but majority will be human and probably British. Think Verne and >> Wells with a dash of Boroughs and you're on the right track. A nice >> setting but the combat system is a but clunky. >> >> Tunnel Quest >> Tunnel Quest is a small simple yet powerful rpg by Mike Hill designed to >> be played by non-gamers like curious relatives around Christmas time. >> Despite being very simple it has all the features of a full size game: >> classes, skills, character advancement, treasure, and spell-casting. A >> short simple rules set but with enough variety to satisfy veteran >> gamers. Rpg review 12 has rules that add elves and other PCs species. I >> use the first version of the game and can freely distribute those rules. >> The setting is a generic fantasy with a Celt/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon feel. >> Adventures will be varied including wilderness, court intrigue, >> mysteries, not just dungeons. >> >> Cyberpunk 2020 >> Inspired by Gibson, Sterling and others this is the classic 80's game of >> a dystopian 2020AD. Under the influence of rapid technological change >> society begins to fragment. Individuals too loose their humanity as >> implants and prosthetics boost their capabilities but erode their >> empathy. Cyberpunk generates characters with detail previous lives, a >> range of implanted technology, and skills suited to defined archetypes >> of the genre. To get into the role remember "style over substance, >> attitude is everything, live on the edge". Roles include mercenaries, >> hackers, celebrities, nomads, technicians, paramedics, journalists, >> cops, corporates, and 'fixers'. >> >> AD&D: Enormous Olde School Dungeon >> I have more supplements and articles than you can poke a stick at >> providing a HUGE amount of player choice for characters. An enormous >> largely randomly generated dungeon. The largest stronghold ever built by >> dwarves situated on rich lodes of precious metals. Then came the blue >> fever, goblin invasions, and finally the 'Black Crusade' that destroyed >> diplomatic relations with the Empire. The stronghold was overrun. Now, >> with the aid of several allies, the dwarves have established two >> settlements within the old stronghold and seek to eventually gain >> control of it all. This is a big 1970's style dungeon that doesn't hold >> up to close logical scrutiny. >> >> Fighting Fantasy >> Generate your bloodthirsty greedy warriors and send them into monster >> filled dungeons. Kill things! Take their stuff! The group rpg version of >> the favourite of 12 year olds the world over. Really simple rules; >> initially you all play warriors, then after a few games we'll add >> skills, spells, elves, and dwarves. The setting is generic fantasy much >> resembling 70's AD&D, the rules are very simple good for 'beer and >> pretzels' jaunts or playing with kids but the system lacks the teeth for >> a sustained campaign and experienced players will find the limitations >> on character choices frustrating. >> >> >> >> >> >> >>

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