Worst RPG Ever?
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BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
Bushido 1st edition rules. Wow. Bad.
Didn't the original Space Opera rules neglect to include a melee combat system?
Didn't the original Space Opera rules neglect to include a melee combat system?
alaric said:
Amber, SAGA, Everquest, LARP, and Castle Falkenstien -- no dice, oh my! The heresy!
I can't see how someone could say they were well versed in RPGs and not a try a diceless game. It's like saying you like a sport, but avoid watching games from certain stadiums.
Out of the above diceless games, LARPing gave me the worst expeirence. Out of the several games I played there was too much meta gaming, too much favortism, too much of the cliche plots and it seemed that every other ST was trying to make a business out it.
Your milage may vary.
Azimer the Mad
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In Defense of (Some)Champions
Champions is the fastest super-hero system on the market. It has easy to understand rules that take up only 55 pages, including full martial arts and mecha creation rules. PCs can be created in 20 minutes or so. And the combat system is fast-paced, with most fights in my game lasting less than three rounds.
If you use the Fuzion version that is.
My group's been using the New Millenium Fuzion rules, and having played basically every other superhero gaming system, it's the best. I have a copy of the Big Blue Book of the old Champions, using the Hero System. We get it out to torment people. I swear, it has the best GMing advice I'm ever seen, and a personality/origins sheet that every should have to fill out for character in every campaign...but the numbers make my eyes bleed. The Hero system looks like my old statistics homework.
And what kind of superteam has a shirtless wandering AUSTRALIAN ninja wearing a sash and poofy pants in the middle of San Fransisco? My god. :rollseyes: And all the ready made villains look like the dorks that would get killed by Scourge in Marvel 80's comics.
So, if you want to play Champions, use the 1st edition New Milenium rules, with bits of the second edition (has some good changes, but missing some sections. Very superior lifting/throwing/breaking tables). IF you have the two sourcebooks, them all you need of the second edition is the new strength table, and I've seen it online in GM screen PDFs.
The system's free at www.thefuze.com and http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/fuzion/
At only 55 pages of rules that can be used to play NYPD Blue, G.I.Joe, Ninja Scroll, Call of Cthulhu, and soon my Changeling Fuzion game, I fully recommend it.
As to MY worst game...Robotech. I swear, I've played or GMed almost ever Palladium system, but TMNT is the only one I'd ever want to return to. I played in a Robotech game that lasted six hours. It took a minute of game time. Six hours for ONE MINUTE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Misslesmisslesdodgemisslesmisslesdodgemisslemisslemybrainisfallingout....
Champions is the fastest super-hero system on the market. It has easy to understand rules that take up only 55 pages, including full martial arts and mecha creation rules. PCs can be created in 20 minutes or so. And the combat system is fast-paced, with most fights in my game lasting less than three rounds.
If you use the Fuzion version that is.
My group's been using the New Millenium Fuzion rules, and having played basically every other superhero gaming system, it's the best. I have a copy of the Big Blue Book of the old Champions, using the Hero System. We get it out to torment people. I swear, it has the best GMing advice I'm ever seen, and a personality/origins sheet that every should have to fill out for character in every campaign...but the numbers make my eyes bleed. The Hero system looks like my old statistics homework.
And what kind of superteam has a shirtless wandering AUSTRALIAN ninja wearing a sash and poofy pants in the middle of San Fransisco? My god. :rollseyes: And all the ready made villains look like the dorks that would get killed by Scourge in Marvel 80's comics.
So, if you want to play Champions, use the 1st edition New Milenium rules, with bits of the second edition (has some good changes, but missing some sections. Very superior lifting/throwing/breaking tables). IF you have the two sourcebooks, them all you need of the second edition is the new strength table, and I've seen it online in GM screen PDFs.
The system's free at www.thefuze.com and http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/fuzion/
At only 55 pages of rules that can be used to play NYPD Blue, G.I.Joe, Ninja Scroll, Call of Cthulhu, and soon my Changeling Fuzion game, I fully recommend it.
As to MY worst game...Robotech. I swear, I've played or GMed almost ever Palladium system, but TMNT is the only one I'd ever want to return to. I played in a Robotech game that lasted six hours. It took a minute of game time. Six hours for ONE MINUTE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Misslesmisslesdodgemisslesmisslesdodgemisslemisslemybrainisfallingout....
Re: In Defense of (Some)Champions
Speaking as a professional statistician, I'll thank you not to compare my craft to the Hero system.
... unless you meant to say that statisticians can leap tall buildings at a single bound and all that jazz, that is. If so, please carry on.
Too right. No right-thinking Australian ninja would be caught without a stubby in his hand.
Azimer the Mad said:
Speaking as a professional statistician, I'll thank you not to compare my craft to the Hero system.
... unless you meant to say that statisticians can leap tall buildings at a single bound and all that jazz, that is. If so, please carry on.
Too right. No right-thinking Australian ninja would be caught without a stubby in his hand.
ConcreteBuddha
First Post
WORST = METASCAPE
BLEH!!!
BLEH!!!
Wow, you all brought me to post, I have been reading these boards for weeeks and I never posted but I could not keep myself from being suprised noone mentioned the worst game ever played by my group. That bad part is we LOVE it. And what game is it you ask (I hope):
Millennium's End.
I do not know who it is by. But it is one of the most unweildy systems I have ever seen. So over researched it is painful!
Barovan
Millennium's End.
I do not know who it is by. But it is one of the most unweildy systems I have ever seen. So over researched it is painful!
Barovan
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