Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:24 PST

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@kickapps.com (CavScout) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:54:01 PST

Using SilCore or the the older versions?

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:31:07 PST

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@kickapps.com (CavScout) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:00:33 PST

How's the game coming along?

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:31:46 PST

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 setting:

Again, it's 1984, but not the same one we lived through. After the disaster of the Grenada intervention (the Cubans had secretly evacuated the American student hostages to Cuba and used weapons of mass destruction to eliminate the rescue force!), the Presidential Election campaign has seen the most chaos and turmoil of any since '68. Thompson is expected to win in a sizable majority, but tensions are still high. The Draft has been reinstated and the general feeling...

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (Brooklyn Red Leg) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:09:29 PST

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 you're not used to it. If you want to stick with Palladium, perhaps Ninjas & Superspies might be good. If you want an absolutely lethal system with easy character generation, perhaps RECON might be the best. West End's D6 Adventure might be a good choice (failing that, an easy modify of Star Wars 2nd Edition Revised & Expanded can be used).

Anyway, I wanna apologize for taking so long to reply. My mom fell and shattered her left hip 11 days ago and I've been dealing...

Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:21:19 PST

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@kickapps.com (Basara 549) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:28:18 PST

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 when applied to the modern era (1900s to early/mid-2000s), at least in a totally realistic setting. Players and GMs have enough experience with what does exist and what is plausible (and it's always the curious minds that tend to RPGs, so they're likely to spot such things) to drive military convoys through loopholes and logical disconnects in modern setting rules.

Spycraft 2.0 is good for a less fantastic setting with some fantastic elements (mostly plausible high tech)
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Re: Brooklyn Redleg? I'd Like Your Advice

feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:21:20 PST

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@kickapps.com (Jefffar) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:26:49 PST

So do you have familiarity with any systems?

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feeds@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:22:45 PST

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@kickapps.com (Jefffar) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:16:20 PST

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@kickapps.com (FPilot) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:55:29 PST

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).