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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 2:37:01 GMT -5
I keep eyeing this one....  but it's pricey and I wouldn't find anyone to play it with me, so I have never picked it up... -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 2:42:27 GMT -5
So this brings me too...
Favorite table top RPG's I have played....
1. AD&D 2nd Edition
2. Basic/Expert D&D
3. Toon
4. AD&D 1st Edition
5. FATE/Fudge
6. Call of Cthulhu
7. Marvel Super Heroes 1st Edition
8. Mutants and Masterminds 1st Edition
9. Chill
10. D&D 4th edition
11. D&D 3.5 edition
12. Castles & Crusades
13. Gamma World
14. Star Wars Saga Edition
16. Star Wars d6 Edition
17. Traveller
18. Boot Hill
19. Champions
20. Villains and Vigilantes
-M
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 2:47:26 GMT -5
followed by RPGs I would like to try but oh to find players...
1. Dresden Files
2. Conan
3. Savage Worlds
4. Broken Rooms
5. Solomon Kane
6. Star Frontiers
7. DC Heroes (Mayfair Games)
8. DC Heroes bases on Mutants & Masterminds engine)
9. Swords & Wizardry
10. Star Wars (Fantasy Flight Games)
11. Skull & Crossbones
12. Tunnels and Trolls
13. Time Master
14. Space Ace
15. Metamorphosis Alpha
-M
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Post by DubipR on May 19, 2014 9:50:41 GMT -5
So this brings me too... Favorite table top RPG's I have played.... 18. Boot Hill -M Nice to see someone else remember Boot Hill. I loved playing that one as well. Did you ever play Blood Bowl? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2014 9:56:40 GMT -5
So this brings me too... Favorite table top RPG's I have played.... 1. AD&D First Edition 2. Castles & Crusaders 3. D&D Basic/Expert 4. The Rocky & Bullwinkle Role-Playing Game 5. Call of Cthulhu 6. Top Secret! 7. Gamma World 8. Star Frontiers |
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Post by berkley on May 19, 2014 11:03:56 GMT -5
Professional athletes I've met outside a sporting venue or sporting related event... -M An impressive list M I've met 2 Sport Stars in my life,both when I was manageing an after-hours club in the late 70s -early 80s. 1 was a customer who I spent an hour or so talking to.It was former Baseball All Star Pitcher " Sudden" Sam McDowell. Sam could throw 100 MPH in his early years and had some great seasons with the Cleveland Indians.Among his best years was 1970 when he won 20 games,had a 2.92 ERA and struck out 304 batters
By the time I met him,he was out of baseball a few years.He was drinking heavily that night,didn't want to talk much about baseball,having trouble with his wife and mad at several people for some bad business investments he made. Most of that hour was him drunkenly griping about how his life was turning out and the back pain he suffered from.Felt sorry for the guy.Looking at Wikipedia I see how he really hit rock bottom later but has successfully turned it around.Its said that the Cheers character,Sam Malone played by Ted Danson was modeled after Sam DcDowell The other sports figure was a co-worker at the club, Art Heyman. Art was a big-time college basketball player for Duke University getting player of the year awards and eentully voted into Duke's Hall Of Fame .He was drafted by the NY Knicks and played for them from 1963-1965.he played for a few other NBA teams as well as for the ABA until retirement in 1970.The reason for his much travelled resume was supposedly a mercurial temper and frequent outburst I never saw that side of Art in the late 70s.But he was definitely a bit of a flake and would zone out from time to time.But besides that,he was a friendly lug.His hands were huge,he was always the biggest guy in the room.You felt safe with Art around.I knew nothing about basketball and never talked to him about it.He would go to this east side park every week to get involved in pick-up games.Pretty cool.I liked Art.He later opened his own restaurant/bar in 1996. He died in 2012.I sorry I never went to visit him at that bar I haven't really met anyone like that myself, but this reminds me that I was talking to a guy years ago whose father was a sportswriter and who obviously met a lot of pro athletes. His father used to say that the nicest guy he ever interviewed was Jerry Rice, the American football player. I was reminded about this because he also mentioned that, like the basketball player Ish was talking about, Rice too had huge hands, which he (Rice) thought came from having worked as a bricklayer (I think it was) and helped him a lot in catching and holding on to the ball. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2014 11:12:01 GMT -5
Not a lot of opportunity to meet famous athletes in Idaho.
I played football against Merrill Hoge in high school.
I met both Jerry Kramer and Harmon Killebrew at political functions.
I just barely remember meeting Larry Mahan...which was very cool. This was when he was trying to make a comeback, so about '73 or '74.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 12:34:57 GMT -5
So this brings me too... Favorite table top RPG's I have played.... 18. Boot Hill -M Nice to see someone else remember Boot Hill. I loved playing that one as well. Did you ever play Blood Bowl? So this brings me too... Favorite table top RPG's I have played.... 1. AD&D First Edition 2. Castles & Crusaders 3. D&D Basic/Expert 4. The Rocky & Bullwinkle Role-Playing Game 5. Call of Cthulhu 6. Top Secret! 7. Gamma World 8. Star Frontiers I've never played Blood Bowl, but I have friends and acquaintances who play it, and have watched a game. They always do full blown leagues for it, and I can never quite commit to that amount of time for it though. They are all also into a lot of other miniatures games like 40K, Hordes and others that require an investment of more time and money than I have. Looking at Slam's list, Top Secret should have had an honorable mention on my list, I only played it a time or two in high school, but it was a hoot. Along the lines of Boot Hill, Deadlands gets an honorable mention, I love the setting/concept of the game, but not a fan of the mechanics with cards, chips and dice all needed to play it, but the d20 version lost some of the charm of the concept. I had never seen/heard of the Rocky & Bullwinkle game, but it does not surprise me that it exists. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2014 12:51:18 GMT -5
The Rocky & Bullwinkle was a one-off box-set that was designed as a party game. It's very lightweight for people who aren't really RPGers. And it comes with hand-puppets.
And you can be Dudley Do-Right....or one of the Martians.
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Post by Action Ace on May 19, 2014 21:35:04 GMT -5
So this brings me too... Favorite table top RPG's I have played.... 1. AD&D 2nd Edition 2. Basic/Expert D&D 3. Toon 4. AD&D 1st Edition 5. FATE/Fudge 6. Call of Cthulhu 7. Marvel Super Heroes 1st Edition 8. Mutants and Masterminds 1st Edition 9. Chill 10. D&D 4th edition 11. D&D 3.5 edition 12. Castles & Crusades 13. Gamma World 14. Star Wars Saga Edition 16. Star Wars d6 Edition 17. Traveller 18. Boot Hill 19. Champions 20. Villains and Vigilantes -M Top RPGs I've played more than once 1. AD&D 1st Edition 2. Basic/ Expert (BECMI) D&D 3. Mutants & Masterminds 4. DC Adventures (Mutants & Masterminds) 5. Castle & Crusades 6. Swords & Wizardry 7. 0E D&D (finally got to play this since someone I knew bought the $150 set) 8. D&D 4th Edition 9. Star Wars (West End Games d6) 10. Star Wars Saga Edition (I have not played/ purchased the Fantasy Flight one) 11. D&D 3rd Edition (which eventually drove me back to 1e and old school clones) 12. DC Heroes (Mayfair Games) 13. AD&D 2nd Edition check back later this year for a slight update   owned but not played much OSRIC Arcana Unearthed Champions (I think it's second edition) Silver Age Sentinels Gamma World GURPS (mainly just the Supers) |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 21:57:36 GMT -5
Sigh, now I am thinking of rpg stuff....
Favorite Campaign settings...
1. Wilderlands of High Fantasy
2. Blackmoor (Arneson's original setting)
3. Greyhawk (pre-From the Ashes)
4. Lankhmar
5. The Known World of Basic/Expert D&D
6. Lands of Ravenloft
7. Bard's Gate and the world of Necromancer Games
8. Lejendary Aerth
9. Thieves' World/Sanctuary
10. Forgotten Realms-1st box set not later permutations
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2014 23:56:22 GMT -5
I loved Blackmoor. My best friend bought the Blackmoor supplement from a hobby shop in about '84. So it had been there a long time. Temple of the Frog in there was great.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 0:01:21 GMT -5
I loved Blackmoor. My best friend bought the Blackmoor supplement from a hobby shop in about '84. So it had been there a long time. Temple of the Frog in there was great. I have several versions of it...the OD&D Blackmoor supplement, the First Fantasy Game supplement done by Arneson for Judges Guild after he and Gygax parted ways, the Blackmoor modules done for Basic/Expert D&D in the 80's when Dave came back to TSR briefly, and the revamped version endorsed by Dave and distributed by Goodman Games in the mid 2000-oughts. All are slightly different and very cool. -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 0:06:52 GMT -5
Of note to comic fans and RPG fans..there is a pulp rpg from White Wolf called Adventure (Tales of the Aeon Society) (there is one using World of Darkness rules and a d20 version). Warren Ellis was a consultant on the world building and wrote a short story/novella included in the non-d20 version as a prologue for the game setting before any rules are presented too. It's a good read if you are an Ellis fan, and it looks like an interesting game, I just don't like the World of Darkness/Vampire/Werewolf rules set all that much, and the d20 version is a clunky adaptation to the rule set. If I could find the players I would be tempted to run it using the Fate rules. -M  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 20, 2014 0:35:35 GMT -5
Is that a continuation of the old Adventure from back in the 80s? I was always intrigued by it, but couldn't justify the money.
Space 1889 was another I desperately wanted to play with the right people.
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