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Hi again, It is but the fond nostalgia of a gamer past the wet-behind-the-ears stage... :) Yes, that does bring back the memories. People flipping up the Crown from among the random ending cards, and everyone else hoarding their healing or running for the Timescape while gaining power. A...

Hello, Hmm, nice to see it getting out into the stores. Here and here are the last couple of recent ENboards threads on the subject. Yeah, as I mentioned on one of those previous threads, the first item in the "Notes" section for all the Talisman events on a friend's Origins schedule was...

Hello, "Hmm...let's see now...sumthin' amiss here..." to be a bit more precise, it's, "Ohhhhhhhh... Join up with me, so joyous and free, This way to old Sherwood hie. For I'm Robin Hood, and I'm very good at avoiding the Sherriff's eye. So we'll trip along merrily, O'er the greensward...

Hi again, FishXXIII, that article would appear to have been written at the time of the introduction of the 3rd Edition, c. 1993 - Talisman is now 20 years old, not 10. As far as I know, the same ones that came with 3rd Edition. There's a nice gallery of those figures here. Haven't played...

Hello, Hmm, my own first thought on seeing the subject was, "Ever play NetHack?" Every good dungeon town needs a temple, a hardware store, a lighting store... :D

Hello, The most recent previous thread here on the subject is this one. Best information currently available is that: 1) this is an out-and-out reprint of the last edition, with the Dragon King as the default ending instead of the Crown of Command, 2) No expansions are included or being...

Hello, If you do decide to go the GURPS route, GURPS Y2K is the game's main treatment of post-apocalyptic themes. Ah, Gamma World. the goofy-but-fun successor to the even-more-goofy-yet-still-fun Metamorphosis Alpha. And the only game that tempted me to look into TSR's "Amazing Engine"...

(*blows Will save *) Hello, Ah, rationality. The excuse of many regimes throughout history for the most barbaric physical and psychological cruelties and for intrusive dictation of the most intimate details of ordinary peoples' lives. It truly makes me wonder, how many of the people who...

Hello, Yeah, $75 is on the steep side, but it's still nice to see it available again after all these years, even the lesser 3rd Edition. The memory of a friend's old Origins program still brings a chuckle to me. The first item in the "Notes" listed for each Talisman event on the schedule was...

Hello, Well, you've saved yourself a bit of embarrassment, anyway. The Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games is a Texan. The Steve Jackson of the Sorcery series and other Fighting Fantasy books is from the United Kingdom (and is also one of the founders of Games Workshop). Loved the...

Hello, Yes, and at least one of the prominent board members here (Teflon Billy, if I'm not mistaken) had the privilege of knowing him well, and gaming with him in the past. There was a thread mourning his passing on an older incarnation of these boards. Here's the GAMA Academy's Hall of...

Hello! The resources hong has listed, while often very useful and interesting (the GURPSnet archive is among my own bookmarks), are not really forums or boards along the lines of this one. The GURPSnet is a mailing list, and the Web site hong links to is an archive for it, with a FAQ and some...

Hi all, Man, Bugaboo, you're really slipping. I come here looking for a troll and get a plain statement of simple and obvious truth. What happened? :( Hong, on the other hand...sublime... :D Don't sweat it, Bugaboo, I'm sure you'll be back on your game in no time....

Hello again! This IS realistic. Very few gunshot wounds kill instantly, and those are mostly the ones that hit vital organs (taken into account in GURPS with hefty multipliers to both damage and blow-through limits). Most others that kill do so over a longer time by bleeding out the victim...

Hello, It's solid, and can be quite fun, but the level of detail in the system definitely rewards skillful combat play, especially at the lower Tech Levels. Standing in one spot like a D&D Fighter and simply swing, swing, swinging away, without taking advantage of the system's combat options...

Hello! As I've mentioned before, my two favorite TSR-produced settings are Birthright (for a more serious tone) and Mystara (more lighthearted). Birthright is the best "generic fantasy" game world I've seen, had beautiful art and "production values" (until the later stuff, just before they...

Hi again! Hero's a lot better here than Champions used to be, actually. Hero 5th has a lot of the goodies for lower-powered campaigns that first showed up in Justice Inc., Danger International, the Adventurer's Club, and so forth; human-scale characters have quite a few options and no longer...

Hello! Don't sweat it. It's a generalization that has little to do with the system itself. Superheroes generally have powers and combat options akin to those of Epic-Level D&D characters, and an all-out brawl between superhero and supervillain groups shouldn't take any longer than a fight...

Hello! Always nice to see a thread bring out so many of the Mystara and BD&D fans :). I too would go with a new version of the Mystara campaign world as my first choice, revised and updated for 3e, preferably as a single hardcover with all the excellent production values and attention to...

Hello! I'm not so sure about this. From what I have seen, RPG stuff seems like a pretty small portion of the business at the WotC stores, despite the shelf space devoted to it. Magic: The Gathering, current gaming hits like the Yu-Gi-Oh CCG or WizKids minis, boardgames, and video games...