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<blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 4442341" data-attributes="member: 50821"><p><strong>First, Second and the Third Kind</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Mutants & Masterminds:</strong></p><p>For me, an avid fan of simple D6 systems, the best thing you could possibly do with a D20 outside of the original Paranoia game. I was into this one before it came out (in a manner of speaking) and I've run many a cool campaign with both 1st ED, 2nd ED and a merger of the two I like to call First and a Half. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p> </p><p><strong>Traveller:</strong></p><p>Traveller, the original, classic, no-funny-diet-aftertaste version actually didn't survive 1st Contact with me and my friends. At the age of 11, SciFi games needed aliens, blasting ray guns and hyperwarp drives. Products of the age of Star Trek, Star Wars, Legion of Super Heroes comics and the like, Traveller was bland and boring. This feeling was further cemented by a GM who ran a scenario that could have occured in a featureless warehouse during any period of time where guns exist. It was second contact, when I learned the game and ran it my self that made it one of my all time favorite RPGs.. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Deadlands:</strong></p><p>When a very close friend of mine returned to NY from Cali he told our group that he now GMed and wanted to run something. I thought, Holy Moley! Keith is gonna run something?! I am there! Anything you wanna GM is good by me...so he said, "I'm going to run Deadlands!"</p><p> </p><p>Er...let's see...I don't like Westerns and HATE Horror...the system seemed needlessly overworked...ok...let's give it a try! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> </p><p> </p><p>We ended up only running it a few times but I actually had a blast. My buddy Keith changed a few things here and there resulting in a very cool experience.</p><p> </p><p>One never knows, do one?</p><p> </p><p>AD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Green Adam, post: 4442341, member: 50821"] [b]First, Second and the Third Kind[/b] [B]Mutants & Masterminds:[/B] For me, an avid fan of simple D6 systems, the best thing you could possibly do with a D20 outside of the original Paranoia game. I was into this one before it came out (in a manner of speaking) and I've run many a cool campaign with both 1st ED, 2nd ED and a merger of the two I like to call First and a Half. :p [B]Traveller:[/B] Traveller, the original, classic, no-funny-diet-aftertaste version actually didn't survive 1st Contact with me and my friends. At the age of 11, SciFi games needed aliens, blasting ray guns and hyperwarp drives. Products of the age of Star Trek, Star Wars, Legion of Super Heroes comics and the like, Traveller was bland and boring. This feeling was further cemented by a GM who ran a scenario that could have occured in a featureless warehouse during any period of time where guns exist. It was second contact, when I learned the game and ran it my self that made it one of my all time favorite RPGs.. [B]Deadlands:[/B] When a very close friend of mine returned to NY from Cali he told our group that he now GMed and wanted to run something. I thought, Holy Moley! Keith is gonna run something?! I am there! Anything you wanna GM is good by me...so he said, "I'm going to run Deadlands!" Er...let's see...I don't like Westerns and HATE Horror...the system seemed needlessly overworked...ok...let's give it a try! :confused: We ended up only running it a few times but I actually had a blast. My buddy Keith changed a few things here and there resulting in a very cool experience. One never knows, do one? AD [/QUOTE]
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