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Games => Role-Playing Games => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 04:18:08 PM

Title: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 04:18:08 PM: Everyone has gaming skeletons in their closet, mine was that I actually had a copy of Synnibar and played it. What is yours?

PS if anyone... I repeat Anyone has a copy of Hunter Planet the RPG write me today ;D
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 17, 2003, 04:55:49 PM: I used to play Star Frontiers.

Also, I was a monty hall gamer of the most extreme sort. Now that I am removed from that, I see it in a couple other people. People I refuse to game with. People who think I should be impressed that he and the ONE GUY he games with decided it would be cool to give him infinite powers and blow up Waterdeep one afternoon. Yeah, sounds like fun. If you and your dice bag ever show up at my game, you can expect to not see your dice until after an extremely painful visit to a proctologist and possibly some outpatient surgery.

So yes, I'm ashamed that I ever killed Tiamat with one shot from an Arrow of Dragon Slaying. But I've repented. Please love me again!
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 05:05:45 PM: I guess your meetings over ;D
I think we all went through that powergamer phase. RIFTS (Cough, Cough)!!! ;D
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Spriggan on April 17, 2003, 05:05:46 PM: the orignal Elric/Stormbringer RPG. There was a god in the book that granted his powers to priests that used puns, next time any of you see's EUOL ask him about that game and killing anyone (even PC's) so he could get power points to summon him god.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 17, 2003, 05:06:29 PM: Yeah, about an hour ago. Give me a call now
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 05:08:01 PM: The Chaosium one?

Wow must have missed that.

I did used to have the Prince Valiant and Elf Quest RPG's... (Chaosium) and while that one was kind of cheesy I wish I had it again.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 05:08:54 PM: About to go home actually... Long day at the CG HQ
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 17, 2003, 05:10:11 PM: feh. Call me anyway

Or call when you get home.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 05:11:44 PM: You at work or home?
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 17, 2003, 05:14:44 PM: work, till 9. let me know if you're calling from home so I know when to heat up my food.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: 42 on April 17, 2003, 05:18:30 PM: Once the alter ego of myself got into an online RPG of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. Fortunately, I have since recieved professional help, though occassionally I have terrifying halucinations of a short bald man in a red robe following me around.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 05:18:31 PM: yeah home it is...
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Slant on April 17, 2003, 07:00:15 PM: Actually, I DO happen to have a copy of Hunter Planet, as well as some other RPGs that were impossible to find outside of Australia for many years (such as Lace & Steel).

My guilty pleasures could fill a book. I always loved the old games like Gamma World, Villains & Vigilantes, and Starships & Spacemen (of which we played a very long campaign where we ended up re-writing almost all the rules). One of my all-time guilty pleasures is the original Arduin game, where good taste was often simply not an issue.

As for Monty Haul games, my mates and I wrote the book! I remember when we were 13 or 14 and trekking through the Lost City in souped up Apparatuses of Qualish that shot fireballs. Our characters ended up becoming gods and warring with Odin and Thor for control over the Norse pantheon. Can we say "Power Trip" boys and girls?
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 07:11:02 PM: Any Chance of getting a PDF copy so I can review it and see it again,.. I had so much fun with that game.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on April 17, 2003, 08:25:47 PM: Oh man! You actually PLAYED Synnibar!?!?! I've never heard of anyone actually playing that game. Talk about a guilty pleasure.

Hmmmm...I bought the low budget "Attack of the Humans" a few years back. It's pretty bad.

It's no FATAL though
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Slant on April 17, 2003, 09:20:52 PM: Hey, I liked Attack of the Humans. It had more cheese than a BK Special Value Meal, but it was simple and fun. I never played Synnibar, although I DID once briefly own the game. One game that I DID play, and is usually uttered in the same hushed tone of voice as Synnibar, is a game called Senzar. It was panned as a munchkin/power gamer's wet dream, but I loved it. The people who panned it just didn't get the joke: the creators were old power gamers from their teens and were trying to recreate a game that would give players the same feeling they had way back when they had touched more 20-sided dice than they had women.

Okay, I give up. What is Fatal?

And does anybody remember Alma Mater, the game that was banned from Gen Con? I've had some fun with THAT one, too.

Also, Violence by Designer X (AKA Greg Costakyan), another high-octane, low-brainpower favorite.
Title: Re: Guilty RPG Pleasures
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on April 17, 2003, 11:26:12 PM: Yeah I owned and played Synnabar, not my proudest moment, but dangit it was a munchkin wet dream.