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General Category => Role Playing Public Radio Podcast => : mhurst July 03, 2009, 12:12:52 AM
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I was laughing so hard at Tom's butt-puckering response to "The World of Synnibarr" that I had to clear my eyes of tears and look up "Raven McCracken." Wow.
Please, please, please, PLEASE keep your vow of running this and tape your game. And please post an actual play of it.
With reviews like this, I can imagine it will be nothing short of were-awesome!
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4762.html
Has anyone on the forums ever played the ultimate in transgenre gaming?
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I made a wereman ninja as my second character - he has the flying foot chi power and a strength of 45 8)
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Wereman? Did he turn into a man during the full moon?
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Wereman? Did he turn into a man during the full moon?
Yes you havent explained that one too us yet ross.
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Wereman? Did he turn into a man during the full moon?
Yes you havent explained that one too us yet ross.
That's because I still don't know. I limit my exposure to the book lest it fully erodes my already depleted reserves of sanity...
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When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it said "The World of Synnibun".
Mmmmm. That sounds delicious. ;D
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I have contemplated buying this game for laughs but i would like to know would it appeal to my dnd, coc, Or mutants and masterminds player?
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I have contemplated buying this game for laughs but i would like to know would it appeal to my dnd, coc, Or mutants and masterminds player?
From the sounds of it, It will appeal to somone who wants realisum in a campain.
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If I can find a copy I might buy it just to learn how not to run my games.
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I can definitely see it as a remedy for munchkins/powerplayers, kinda the equivalent of making someone smoke a crate of cigarettes to get them to quit smoking.
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I've been trying to figure out how to sell this game to my tabletop group. Maybe "Hey guys, you know how we like to watch really bad movies together? Well Synnibarr is like Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus, but interactive... and it will take us 4 times as long to get through."
Could still be a hard sell.
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I was laughing so hard at Tom's butt-puckering response to "The World of Synnibarr" that I had to clear my eyes of tears and look up "Raven McCracken." Wow.
Please, please, please, PLEASE keep your vow of running this and tape your game. And please post an actual play of it.
With reviews like this, I can imagine it will be nothing short of were-awesome!
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4762.html
Has anyone on the forums ever played the ultimate in transgenre gaming?
That review, combined with the unsettling sound of Ross's spirit breaking during the most recent episode of the podcast, is enough for me to aver that every copy of this monstrosity ought to be permanently sealed in a block of concrete and left to rot in the deepest, darkest canyon on the bottom of the Pacific so that it can no longer taint the world with its evil. I was actually tempted to hunt down a copy just for laughs, until I read the last paragraph of the review and realized that poor Darren MacLennan had to self-immolate just to purge the dread knowledge of Synnibarr from his thoughts. To put my own spin on all the absurd hyperbole being thrown around, if you read too much Synnibarr, milk will spontaneously transmute into cottage cheese in your presence, pregnant women will give birth to flipper-limbed deformities like they'd been gulping down fistfuls of Thalidomide and crack rocks, and God will move the rapture one day closer on His Almighty appointment calendar.
Writing that sentence made me a little bit happier.
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soooooo after hearing the podcast..... i assume weremen are some sort of wind elemental......? or perhaps a verry powerfull wind magic user... or HEAD ASPLODE!
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"Weremen and Werewomen have absolutely nothing to do with the concept of werewolves; they're artificial creations of the Alchemists who can absorb just about every kind of energy attack under the sun and discharge it later, as well as turning into solid shadow and teleporting." McClennan
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http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=474124
There I was, looking through the RPG shelf at a used bookstore. I saw it- The World of Synnibarr, of RPG.net infamy. I knew then that I must buy it, and play it. I immediately fell in love with all the crazy flying grizzly with laser vision action that it promised, and after making a few practice characters and generating an adventure using one of the endless charts, I was ready to roll.
The game started with the group making characters- totally randomly, the way it was intended. To say I got some interesting characters would be an understatement:
Rage- A tall and intimidating shadow master (read: wizard who uses psionics) he ended up being a crucial factor in the incredibly insane stuff that was about to go down. In Synnibarr, the number of spells you get is entirely random- so the fact he rolled really well meant he ended up with more than twice the spells of the other spell caster in the group, and if you think that’s broken you haven’t seen anything yet)
Shadowgrim Grimshadow- A short, fat scarlet tiger with a bad attitude (scarlet tigers are basically goku rip-offs who wear cat ears). He rolled up rich parents so you know what that means: he spent all his starting money on a big-ass missile that he could throw at people. We’re talking like a 10 foot long warhead here, too.
And finally Jasmine Lionraper- A mage warrior (they’re wizards, really nothing warrior like about them, although she did carry a magnum around and use it to good effect several times).
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My roommate and I rolled up a retarded giant and an physically inept wizard something... I proptly deleted the pdf when we started talking to each other in character.
The adventures of Retard and Chicken:
"Hey retard!"
"Two plus two is Chicken!"
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haha. sounds almost like an ed edd and eddy show. MY DREAMS HAVE FINALY COME TRUE DOUBLE DEE! I AM BUTTERED TOAST!
while trying to figure out an old treasure map. ed "lets take it to my house, my mom has a blender." eddy, "dork my moms blender works fine."
best one though was when they were trying to get to the big city. edd, " non of us can drive how are we supposed to get to the big city?" ed, "I KNOW DOUBLE DEE MY DAD HAS A SHOVEL!"
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My roommate and I rolled up a retarded giant and an physically inept wizard something... I proptly deleted the pdf when we started talking to each other in character.
The adventures of Retard and Chicken:
"Hey retard!"
"Two plus two is Chicken!"
hey why would you delete the masterpiece that is synnibarr
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Obviously it was TOO good to be contained in a mere PDF file. Like a were-phoenix, it will rise from the ashes of the recylce bin.
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Raven McCracken is a god!
I can imagine Mr. McCracken sitting on a rocky outcropping, staring out across a bleak, churning sea, the were-winds whipping through his luxurious 80s mullet...
The RPPR table is all that I imagined it would be!
After seeing it's picture, now I know why I can hear the faint sound of cars, it's because the table is right next to the sliding glass door!
So Ross, when are you going to GM that game of Synnibarr... This listener wants to know!!!
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YES! GM THE GAME!
Or make Tom do it, but I think his head would explode, and there aren't enough Toms in the world for us to just explode their heads all willy-nilly.
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Honestly, I think it would be a disappointment because we would spend most of the time reading and re-reading the rules to figure out how to process combat or shit like that.
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Yeah, I guess you're right.
Any excuse for more Tom GMing though, because that means more Ross playing!
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I think the idea of struggling through the wasteland of reason and thought that is Synnibarr would make for a hilarious session. The NerdBound crew has seriously discussed it, but I don't think we're hipster enough to commit to that level of irony.
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I don't think we're hipster enough for a lot of things. That's why we spend our Sundays playing DnD and recording our games. ;D
But seriously: if playing in a world where just hanging out with other ninjas will teach you telepathy is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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But seriously: if playing in a world where just hanging out with other ninjas will teach you telepathy is wrong, I don't want to be right.
QFT
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But seriously: if playing in a world where just hanging out with other ninjas will teach you telepathy is wrong, I don't want to be right.
QFT
I'm afraid I don't see the connection to Quantum field theory, doctor.
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Its The World of Synnibarr its all QFT!
Or quoted for truth. Either way works in The World of Synnibarr.