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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Did I hallucinate this? The Long-Lost Friend

« on: September 27, 2014, 02:59:47 AM »

I could have sworn that there was an RPPR Actual Play called "The Long Lost Friend" that involved the misuse of the Christian grimoire, The Long-Lost Friend. Am I thinking of something else? I've tried googling, and all I can find is a statement that a friend of The Unspeakable Oath was writing an annotated version of the book.

Also if anyone from the podcast is reading this, what was the Ultimate Cake referred to in Know Evil Episode 6?

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RPGs / Best game for a gunfight

« on: April 10, 2011, 06:26:55 AM »

I'm just getting back into RPG's after some time away, and I'm slowly working on writing a campaign to GM for the first time. I'm trying to make a modern crime/mercenary campaign, with the action level somewhere between Heat and Black Lagoon. Unfortunately, most RPG systems seem biased toward melee combat and magic. My current contenders are:
GURPS, which is big and clunky, but really understands what I'm interested in with its High Tech sourcebook. I also have no idea how to run combat or generate enemies for GURPS.
and Shadowrun, a game not really designed for the modern world, but could probably be adapted without too much trouble. I really enjoyed combat in SR3, but I've had no experience at all with it for SR4.

both are pretty decent, but don't feel optimal. D20 Modern has been ruled out already.
So, RPPR, I put the question to you, what do YOU think is best?