Making More Out Of SEIV

spoon · #1 October 24th, 2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:

Phong's Indian Pale Ale.

Best idea yet!

deccan · #2 October 25th, 2003, 12:55 AM

OT - Can anyone recommend a good place to order pencil-and-paper RPGs Online? Thanks.

PvK · #3 October 25th, 2003, 02:48 AM

I like Gary's Games, though my experience with them is local, not mail-order. They do a large business in mail-order bridge supplies, and they know their RPG's and wargames too.

As for GURPS, I think if you have GURPS 3rd Edition Basic Set, and the old printing of GURPS Space, there wouldn't be any need to buy newer printings of either of those. Some really good books though are the GURPS Compendium books, I and II, which include practically all of the useful actual game content from practically all of the world books, all in a nicely organized way. It was always a pain to have to consider buying a world book just to get a few interesting rules along with a lot of not-really-useful-for-one's-own-campaign-worlds background information.

There have been several interesting other books, too, such as the Traveller books, the tech books, and Vehicles (although the vehicle rules seem pretty unwieldy for a pen & paper game, even to me, Mr. Savage House Rules).

PvK

Erax · #4 October 25th, 2003, 05:43 PM

Here's some trivia : GURPS was the first commercially successful translation of a RPG into Portuguese. As a result, it's the second or third most popular gaming system in Brazil. Steve Jackson has been down here twice as a convention guest, he even wrote an article about it on Pyramid called "I was Pope on MTV".

My idea was to use D20 for a Space Empires RPG because it would be easier on the beginners (plus I'm much more familiar with it).

Monolith · #5 October 25th, 2003, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by Erax:
Here's some trivia : GURPS was the first commercially successful translation of a RPG into Portuguese. As a result, it's the second or third most popular gaming system in Brazil. Steve Jackson has been down here twice as a convention guest, he even wrote an article about it on Pyramid called "I was Pope on MTV".

My idea was to use D20 for a Space Empires RPG because it would be easier on the beginners (plus I'm much more familiar with it).

Definitely go with the D20, if for no other reason to cut off Steve Jackson. He is a serious bastard, sueing people at the drop of a hat and then ripping off everyone else

I am a fan of the HERO system, and if you've played it GURPS is obviously a ripoff of it, albiet simplified for the less mathematically inclined.

Go D20!

gregebowman · #6 October 27th, 2003, 05:31 PM

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Originally posted by Monolith:
[My idea was to use D20 for a Space Empires RPG because it would be easier on the beginners (plus I'm much more familiar with it).

Definitely go with the D20, if for no other reason to cut off Steve Jackson. He is a serious bastard, sueing people at the drop of a hat and then ripping off everyone else

I am a fan of the HERO system, and if you've played it GURPS is obviously a ripoff of it, albiet simplified for the less mathematically inclined.

Go D20! [/QB][/quote]

Never played Hero. I played Champions for awhile. But what is this D20? I've seen the name, but since I've been out of RPG's for the past 10 years, I'm not familiar with.

General Woundwort · #7 October 27th, 2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
But what is this D20? I've seen the name, but since I've been out of RPG's for the past 10 years, I'm not familiar with.

Now I really feel old.

"D20" is the famous 20-sided die, the staple of RPG's in the early years (1st edition D&D).