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Play by Post / Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?

« on: May 19, 2009, 07:49:13 AM »

Players list...

Is this correct?

Definite YES:
Tadanori Oyama
Setherick

These are MAYBES:
Dawnsteel
Dragonshaos
Maze

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Play by Post / Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?

« on: May 19, 2009, 07:45:08 AM »

I'll play. Give me some specifics. Or link me the recruitment thread.

Hey Seth,

Here are the specifics: Using the BRP rules, you will play the role of a Special Forces Ranger with psychic powers in WWII. The US government has learned that the Nazis are trying to develop their own psychic program. Your mission is to infiltrate their research camp and stop their research, capture their scientists, and capture any research materials you can find.

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Play by Post / Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?

« on: May 18, 2009, 07:25:05 PM »

Hey Tad, Dawn is absolutely correct. The Basic Role Playing system (BRP) is Chaosium's generic ruleset. If you can play Call of Cthulhu, you can play a game being run with BRP rules.

Dragon, email me at jonhook@gmail.com

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Play by Post / Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?

« on: May 18, 2009, 06:14:41 PM »

The Chaosium site is currently running two contests. One is just a BRP (Basic Role Playing) adventure, and the other is a horror adventure that can be either Cthulhu or BRP.

I'm entering both contests, and I've completed my BRP adventure.

My adventure is set in WWII, and the players are Special Forces Rangers with psychic powers versus Nazi trying to develope psychic powers.

This would be a fun adventure for 5 to 7 players. Anyone want to play?

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RPGs / Re: What makes you scared, and How can you make a RPG game truly frightful???

« on: May 10, 2009, 10:57:37 PM »

Disease or illness, (the more mysterious the better), that is contracted by the bite of a spider, or cat, or rat, or anything else. Have the disease eat away at the character's ability scores, and have it cause the character to hallucinate enough that they might even attack fellow players.

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RPGs / Re: Hollow Earth Expedition - anyone played this yet?

« on: May 09, 2009, 03:53:31 PM »

Holy crap! I must own and run this.

Seth, are you interested in playing a game of HEX via pbp?

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RPGs / Hollow Earth Expedition - anyone played this yet?

« on: May 09, 2009, 12:05:45 AM »

Hey guys, I just heard about a game that focuses on pulp-style adventuring. It's called Hollow Earth Expeditions, (HEX), and it's published by Exile Games.

I haven't played yet, but I am chomping at the bit to play. I've decided that the next rpg I buy will be HEX. I encourage you guys to go check out the Exile Games site, especially the downloads section. The EG folks have posted the HEX introductory adventure they produced for Free RPG Day 2008, so it comes with complete quick-start rules too.

I think this would be a great system to play a Land of the Lost campaign. Beware of Sleestaks!

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General Chaos / Re: Old Game Nostalgia Thread

« on: April 19, 2009, 01:43:50 PM »

As a child of the 70s, we didn't have a home computer, and the game console I had had Pong! I shit you not. Eventually, my brother and I did get a Sega Odyssey for X-mas one year.

No, the games that hold nostalgia for me are old rpgs, board games, and actual coin-op arcade games. My favorites as a kid were...

D&D, Call of Cthulhu (still a huge favorite), Marvel Superheroes, Axis & Allies, and Squad Leader. A friend of mine had a huge collection of Lord of the Rings minis, and he constructed a terrain board, (I think it was a 4x8 or 4x6 board), and we'd play our own version of mini wars with these huge LotR armies.

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RPGs / Re: Share Your Game Ideas

« on: April 16, 2009, 11:25:42 PM »

how about the ability to shoot a yak from 200 yards away.... WITH MIND BULLETS...

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P.S. I like the Idea, But I would run it during cold war time just to add that extra bit into it, add in people part of real mind games like Maj. Ed Dames and his remote viewing, I cant rember what the name of that project was I keep thinking its Project Blue Book but I know thats a UFO cover up name. Anyways I like the idea none the less.

Thanks man. I loved the Tenacious D video, that was excellent.

I'm writing this adventure up for submission to Chaosium's current Basic Role Playing adventure contest. I hope they like it too.

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RPGs / Re: Share Your Game Ideas

« on: April 15, 2009, 09:09:34 PM »

A WWII setting.

The PCs are an elite group of Special Forces Rangers who have graduated from an experiment to unlock psychic abilities in humans. Each Ranger has one or two psi abilities. They are part of X-Ray Company.

The Allies get wind of a special lab run by the Nazi to also unlock psi abilities. The US decides to shut them down before a psionics race can begin. The Rangers have the intel they need to do a night drop near the lab and arial photos of the area so they can get in, shut down the research, capture any scientists, and any research materials already compiled.

Unbeknownst to the US, the Nazis have developed a device that when surgically added to a man will give him the ability to project a psionic attack that has the capability to kill a man with a single thought!

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RPGs / Re: Who's trying new games?

« on: April 12, 2009, 09:19:16 PM »

I just bought "Houses of the Blooded" as a pdf for just $5.00. This is their regular price for an over 400 page pdf.

Check it out: http://www.housesoftheblooded.com/

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RPGs / Re: Who's trying new games?

« on: April 10, 2009, 09:40:21 PM »

I finally got a copy of Call of Cthulhu. It's really old (published 1989) and its still one of the coolest RPG books I've every read.

I've decided to make the game I run with it my first "public" session. I've been recording my games for review purposes and haven't found them particularly entertaining so I haven't made the effort to put them where anyone could hear them. So, I'm going to make this one a bit of a production.

None of the players have played it before and only one of them knows anything significant about the Mythos so I should be assured some players who won't know what hit them.

Awesome. I hope you have a great game of CoC!!

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RPGs / Re: The Ultimate RPG Resources thread

« on: April 10, 2009, 07:54:23 PM »

Systems

Free Systems
The Dead

Mapping Software

Online Game Software

Fantasy

Horror
Creepy plot hooks

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RPGs / Re: Who's trying new games?

« on: April 10, 2009, 07:50:24 PM »

I can't wait to try Monsters & other childish things.  I bought it about a week ago and can't wait to try it out.

Feel free to ask questions about it. It's actually quite easy to get players into roleplaying as kids as everyone has experience being a kid. You just have to get them into the mood and right frame of mind.

I would love to play someday.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Actual Play: Murder of Crows

« on: April 09, 2009, 08:10:03 AM »

Thanks guys. I had a lot of fun running Murder of Crows, but as Boyos pointed out there is another much much better CoC actual play available to listen to, Dig to Victory, that is way cooler. I loved DtV.