Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:50:24 GMT

Older versions. I don't own any SilCore books. I don't think anybody in the Knoxville area has any to sell. I've never seen them here.

Let's just say this project has only a modest level of priority.

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (CavScout) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:54:01 GMT

Using SilCore or the the older versions?

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:31:07 GMT

Nothing's really happened yet. I'm using Silhouette system to design some of the "mecha", but now I feel I'll have to put it all through revisions. And I don't have players.

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (CavScout) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:00:33 GMT

How's the game coming along?

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:31:46 GMT

Golly, Brook. My mom and I sympathise for you and your mom. Now Mom wants to make a quilt for her.

Back to the gaming...

I guess my main problems are:

1) I don't have much GM experience;
2) I don't have players to ask about their preferences;
3) I can't exactly get an off-the-shelf system that would mesh perfectly with the setting;
4) I don't know what other questions I need to ask.

So, let me tell you more about the...

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (Brooklyn Red Leg) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:09:29 GMT

FPilot wrote:
If you were running a "modern era" RPG, would you use Palladium/RECON/RIFTS or would you use another system as your base mechanic? I want to host a campaign set in an altenative version of 1984 (and I don't mean George Orwell).

Hmm, well, I've just started to get into the Hero System (I picked up the Dark Champions bundle), but be forewarned that it can be a bit intimidating if...

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:21:19 GMT

I was hoping to try for a pastiche of live-action contemporary-era sci-fi TV of the late Seventies/early Eighties, the likes of Knight Rider, the A-Team, AirWolf, MacGuyver and so on. The players would be allowed elevated technology (better than the general population, of course) and even special abilities and powers if needed, but not to the point of characters being blatant superheroes. Maybe Ninjas & Superspies could work. I'll have to see what's available.

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feeds@yuku.com (Basara 549) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:28:18 GMT

How "fantastic" is the setting going to be? (aliens, hidden magic, ultra-high technology, improbable martial arts abilities, etc.)

That will factor in a lot as to what system to use. Remember, a system that is a Jack of all Trades is at best, may be superior in one or two specific areas compared to any other given RPG (and varying by comparison), but more often, is the not the best system for any application (i.e. the master of none).

Most RPGs tend to break down...

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:21:20 GMT

I'm trying to get more familiarity with HERO/FRED, SpyCraft 2.0, GURPS, D20 and a few others. I thought Fuzion was basically unplayable. I kind of like Silhouette/SilCore in wargame applications, but I'm not so sure about it in general RPG use. Of course, Brook and I played Palladium's Robotech, but he and Bas have far more experience than I do. Which is why I'm asking them!

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feeds@yuku.com (Jefffar) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:26:49 GMT

So do you have familiarity with any systems?

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feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:22:45 GMT

Which is impossible as I have never GM'ed, and have not actually played since some guy from Arkansas was in the White House. Things have changed.

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (Jefffar) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:16:20 GMT

Im not Brook but as a long time gamer I have this advice:

Go with the system you most enjoy running and playing in.

Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@yuku.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:55:29 GMT

If you were running a "modern era" RPG, would you use Palladium/RECON/RIFTS or would you use another system as your base mechanic? I want to host a campaign set in an altenative version of 1984 (and I don't mean George Orwell).