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Also in C'Tech you can choose between Human, Nazzadi, Xeno Mix or White.

White is a freak of nature so to speak they are natual born parra psycics and are taken into NEG care, Xeno mix are trouble makers.

in the game Navada is covered by a void that gets patroled by mech's.

AndrewC wrote:

Paranoia. Fun for GM only, he gets to read all the jokes. Players really don’t get to laugh a lot until afterwards when the jokes can be explained.

Sounds like you've never been in a good Paranoia! game.

Yes I have, but I've also ran a few. And I have to say that running them is infinitely more funny that taking part. For Example, Send in the clones, what (reasonable) chance do the players ever have of finding out the backgrond and the jokes therein, without the GM spoonfeeding them.

The players have fun trying to kill each other for obscure reasons and covering thier tracks, but the actual scenario jokes are completely lost.

Andrew

The best game I ever ran, included supplying all the character sheets colour coded to security clearance, coloured pens etc, and 1 white map......

I've been interested in playing paranoia since I heard about it.

SilverMK2 wrote:I've been interested in playing paranoia since I heard about it.

Yeah, me too! I used to have the books but never got to play it.

Well, book a flight over to the mother land and come and have a game

As soon as I get that second book published.

You're a writer? Cool.

I would love to have something published. Supposedly having a short story (3000 words) included in a small warhammer e-fanzine, but I have not heard anything back for a while.

Anyway, well done on the pubishing (x2)

I got pulished twice.

Miss Dee wrote:I got pulished twice.

Wow, how thinly did you have to be sliced in order to fit in 2 different books? :O

I wrote the Soulhunters for Signs and Portents from Mongoose Publishing.

That is pretty cool. If I ever see a copy, I will pick it up

you can download it.

here http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1468&qsSeries=13

and here http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1582&qsSeries=13

SilverMK2 wrote:You're a writer? Cool.

I would love to have something published. Supposedly having a short story (3000 words) included in a small warhammer e-fanzine, but I have not heard anything back for a while.

Anyway, well done on the pubishing (x2)

Thanks but not quite yet. I am still very much on the 'Starving' side of the Starving Writer description. Writing articles and short stories for scraps, essentially. We never make any real money until our second book gets published, or so the saying goes. I appreciate the optimism!

GoFenris wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:I've been interested in playing paranoia since I heard about it.

Yeah, me too! I used to have the books but never got to play it.

I nearly decked out a friend for playing it

D&D (all incarnations): Hate them with a passion.
Have played AD&D & 3rd ed. Just don't like the game.
Paranoia: Great fun. Especially if you play it dead straight. Our GM was not the one having the most fun in this one.
Call of Cthulhu: Brilliant (but does require a GM who knows what they are doing. Even more so than other games).

Cyberpunk: My favourite. I've tried all of the various genre games (Shadowrun 1-4, ICE Cyberspace, HEROgames CyberHero, etc). Cyberpunk is still king.
The simplicity and the brutality of combat. The look on a PCs face after they take a LAW to the chest, expire messily and the team medic just shrugs and says "Sorry, ain't no 'resurrect dead' in this game."

you think they would let us play DH in the forums?

Werewolf the Apocalypse is mine, although I did really like AD&D Dark Sun and Dark Heresy is very good.

Manchu I feel your pain. My D&D 3.5 group (most of us in our late 30's early 40's) can't be bothered learning a new system. For us its less about what we play and more about socialising and having a laugh.

after encountering a Greater Abyssal Basilisk and two party members have been turned to stone

Iain: "I use my bardic knowledge to try and identify the creature!" (rolls Knowledge check - a good roll)

DM: (not wanting to give too much away) "Your knowledge tells you it's a creature that turns people to stone!"

John's voice yelling from the toilet (John's character has been turned to stone): "WHAT GAVE YOU YOUR FIRST CLUE??"

Everyone: ROFL!

Maybe you had to be there. But for this group its more about the interaction than the game. While I'd like to try another system occasionally, their thinking is that we'll have fun playing any system that isn't broken, and while 3.5 isn't perfect it certainly isn't broken. I might think that the pain of learning a new system might be worth it and say "no pain, no gain" they say "no pain, no pain!" and want to stick with 3.5. Crikey how many years did it take our group to switch to 3.5! Ages! One member still hasn't bought 3.5 books and borrows the PH off the rest of us.

Anyway...ahem.

I did get to play the Privateer Press RPG which is d20 and really liked the setting. Unfortunately their miniatures game Warmachine took off in a big way and the RPG side of things has been neglected.

My 2c.

Trickster wrote:Manchu I feel your pain. My D&D 3.5 group (most of us in our late 30's early 40's) can't be bothered learning a new system. For us its less about what we play and more about socialising and having a laugh.

after encountering a Greater Abyssal Basilisk and two party members have been turned to stone

Iain: "I use my bardic knowledge to try and identify the creature!" (rolls Knowledge check - a good roll)

DM: (not wanting to give too much away) "Your knowledge tells you it's a creature that turns people to stone!"

John's voice yelling from the toilet (John's character has been turned to stone): "WHAT GAVE YOU YOUR FIRST CLUE??"

Everyone: ROFL!

You haven't known the horrors of 4th edition until you've seen Bear Lore.

Best system across the board I have played is GURPS. Only one that balances easily learned rules, simple modifiers and lethal combat.

A toss up between Dark Heresy and Mage: the Ascension (thats the old version of Mage) for me. DMed the first, played the second. The trick with Mage (and indeed most WW stuff) is to throw out 90% of the pretentious twaddle, load the group with solid characters that are all balls to the wall awesome, then go stop the Apocalypse from happening or something equally major. As for mechanics, the only real oddity is that the beter you are at something, the more chance there is to roll a 1 and balls things up.

If you want a decent spin on 3.5, the WoW RPG is pretty good. For some reason the heroic fantasy aspect really works with 3.5, and in my opinion it's more fun than Eberron, a setting I absolutley adore.

Dragonlover

Cheese Elemental wrote:
You haven't known the horrors of 4th edition until you've seen Bear Lore.

I do not have the words...

Wow, Bear Lore. Holy crap.

I'm going to have to say, favorite game I've ever played, Big Eyes Small Mouth 2.0. The game lets you pick any anime-esque setting imaginable and recreates it so perfectly. The mechanics are there, but stay out of the way enough to encourage awesome story-telling. Admittedly the open-endedness does not lend itself well to groups of power gamers (I pute all my points in "Has a Big Robot! He crushes all of you!), but the game is very clear that it's ok to set restrictions based on settings. I used to run hybrid Yu-Gi-Oh! one shots out of these books, mixing the game mechanics with the existing card game rules to make really cool stories.

I'm a big fan of D02: Know No Limit.

Fave RPG's?
ADnD 2nd Ed.
Werewolf the Apocalypse
Vampire the Masquerade (but not Mage, Wraith or Changeling)
Cyberpunk 2020
Warhammer FRPG (both versions)
Shadowrun (its basically DnD meets Cyberpunk)
Dnd 3.0 (lets make DnD really simple, then Complicate the hell out of it with unnecessart feats and class abilities)
Champions
Dark heresy
DC Heroes
Star Wars. WEG version.

and yes, except for DC I have them all.
Apparently I'm a Pack Rat

I had a compleated Shadowrun elf sniper yet the guys in the team did not want her so I left the house in a hissy fit.

I played D&D 3.0 for most of my high school years, then started trying other D20 systems. D20 Modern and Star Wars D20. Both were fun but once I tried Dark Heresy I've preferred D10 system. DH is better for our group I think since we tend towards combat.

In no particular order:

WEG Star Wars 2nd Ed. (though this may be more nostalgia...)
Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk 2020 (definitely my favorite)
Shadowrun 2nd ed. (though the novelty wore off faster)
World of Darkness (Vampire, Mage and Werewolf 2nd ed., though more the latter two)
D&D 3.5 Ed. (VERY dependent on who's playing with you)
Mutants and Masterminds

I think rifts is the best i have tried and i have tried dh dnd and others.