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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 21, 2015 5:28:50 GMT -5
My latest RPG purchase consisted of source books 3 (Endless Dead™) and 4 (Fear the Reaper™) for the Dead Reign™ game line from Palladium Books®. I went in with the intention of just browsing so I hit up the discount material. I needed both of those source books and my FLGS had them marked at 50% off. I thought it was a mistake so I asked the guy at the counter and discovered that they were "gently used" in an after hours employees only game. I could not tell the difference between them and the product on the shelf so I snatched them up.  |
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Post by finarvyn on Jan 21, 2015 6:46:10 GMT -5
I just picked up the 4-volume DESIGNERS & DRAGONS book set that details the history of the RPG industry over the past 4 decades. Interesting reading.
Oh, and a 5E DM screen. Not the Gale Force 9 one, but the WotC one.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 21, 2015 7:05:54 GMT -5
I just picked up the 4-volume DESIGNERS & DRAGONS book set that details the history of the RPG industry over the past 4 decades. Interesting reading. Oh, and a 5E DM screen. Not the Gale Force 9 one, but the WotC one. Nice! I'm going to pick up all four volumes of DESIGNERS & DRAGONS myself. |
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Post by tetramorph on Jan 21, 2015 14:07:32 GMT -5
Designers and Dragons sounds a bit too much to me! But, I did make it through "Playing at the World," so I guess it is the next logical step!
Last RPG I bought was a copy of LL at the young-kid comic and game shop in town (not the one I game at, which is a grognard miniatures war gaming FLGS).
Last game I bought was the Knights and Cities expansion for Settlers of Catan.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 21, 2015 21:25:37 GMT -5
Designers and Dragons sounds a bit too much to me! But, I did make it through "Playing at the World," so I guess it is the next logical step! Last RPG I bought was a copy of LL at the young-kid comic and game shop in town (not the one I game at, which is a grognard miniatures war gaming FLGS). Last game I bought was the Knights and Cities expansion for Settlers of Catan. Cool selections. Can you tell me about Settlers of Catan? |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 21, 2015 23:32:53 GMT -5
Designers and Dragons sounds a bit too much to me! But, I did make it through "Playing at the World," so I guess it is the next logical step! Last RPG I bought was a copy of LL at the young-kid comic and game shop in town (not the one I game at, which is a grognard miniatures war gaming FLGS). Last game I bought was the Knights and Cities expansion for Settlers of Catan. Cool selections. Can you tell me about Settlers of Catan? Yes, I also would like to know more about it too! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 22, 2015 8:28:18 GMT -5
Apparently, it's quite popular. I see the Catan dice game at Target now along with the Star Trek themed version of Settlers of Catan. I think there's a card game, a travel version, something like 5 or 6 player expansion, and all sorts of other things.
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Post by finarvyn on Jan 22, 2015 22:33:35 GMT -5
Designers and Dragons sounds a bit too much to me! But, I did make it through "Playing at the World," so I guess it is the next logical step! Two thoughts: (1) I think that Drivethrurpg has some sort of bundle for this right now, if you like PDF books. (2) Since it's a four volume work, you might pick up volume #1 only and get the 1970's. If you want more you can always pick up more books in the series. |
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Post by tetramorph on Jan 24, 2015 11:55:21 GMT -5
The Settlers of Catan is a board game, but not in the usual American sense.
It is called a "Euro" game, and they have some things in common. They are usually about economic competition and control and almost never about warfare, directly. I believe, culturally, that this is a post WWII thing, as by "Euro," we really mean "German." Germans don't do war anymore. So they needed a new metaphor to game. Here is a very unofficial list of some things that Euro games have in common:
Random boards with hexes that can be shuffled and rearranged each time you play.
Cards that remain hidden and can often be traded.
Turns that include negotiation and trade.
A method of determining turns that avoids "king making."
Victory determined by reaching a certain "Victory Point" number.
Then they love to build variations and modifications to the core game so that they can keep making money! I mean, be creative! (Not to be cynical! I mean, I just bought an "expansion"!)
In this case, I find that the "Knights and Cities" expansion, although slightly more complicated than the original rules set is actually both a more enjoyable game and, in the end, kind of makes more general intuitive sense of what you are trying to do. But it does have a lot of wheels in motion and sometimes when I play Catan half way through I will be reading through the rules about something and have to say, "oh, wait guys, I forgot about this and we've been playing it wrong. Sorry! Let's play it right from here out . . ."
It is fun. I wind up, inevitably, role-playing my part because, well, if I can role-play something I will!
I therefore don't like it as much as D&D (of course) but it is fun.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 24, 2015 13:20:04 GMT -5
tetramorph Consider me sold! I have to try this game out now.
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Post by Necromancer on Jan 26, 2015 7:23:06 GMT -5
Great idea for a thread I must say, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I guess this post of mine will be reckoned as rather obscure for you fellas, since my latest RPG purchase was purely Swedish... But anyway, the stuff I bought was: Tricilve - Lojalisternas tid (translates into "Tricilve - the time of the loyalists") - A source book (adventure included) for the Svavelvinter RPG. Monster och varelser Vol. 1 (translates into "Monsters and creatures Vol. !") - a monster manual for the Old School (but not a D&D clone) game Fantasy! Old School Gaming. Ormgudens dal (translates into "Valley of the serpent god") - an adventure module to Fantasy! Old School Gaming (including a hex map and some nods to D&D, actually!) |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 26, 2015 7:32:36 GMT -5
Great idea for a thread I must say, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I guess this post of mine will be reckoned as rather obscure for you fellas, since my latest RPG purchase was purely Swedish... But anyway, the stuff I bought was: Tricilve - Lojalisternas tid (translates into "Tricilve - the time of the loyalists") - A source book (adventure included) for the Svavelvinter RPG. Monster och varelser Vol. 1 (translates into "Monsters and creatures Vol. !") - a monster manual for the Old School (but not a D&D clone) game Fantasy! Old School Gaming. Ormgudens dal (translates into "Valley of the serpent god") - an adventure module to Fantasy! Old School Gaming (including a hex map and some nods to D&D, actually!) It's all cool! In fact, I am interested in how players from other countries and cultures role-play. What is similar? What is different? How is the art influenced by culture? Etc. |
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Post by Necromancer on Jan 26, 2015 7:47:34 GMT -5
Thanks, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I find stuff like that very interesting myself, I must say. I won't mind sharing my experiences and knowledge, or answering any questions for that matter if someone would like to know more. But since my RPG background isn't rooted in the D&D tradition I'm not sure if this board is the right spot for that...!?  |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 26, 2015 9:18:19 GMT -5
Thanks, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I find stuff like that very interesting myself, I must say. I won't mind sharing my experiences and knowledge, or answering any questions for that matter if someone would like to know more. But since my RPG background isn't rooted in the D&D tradition I'm not sure if this board is the right spot for that...!? I don't think it would even be an issue. This place may be rooted in D&D but from what I can tell other stuff is welcome too.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 26, 2015 12:53:21 GMT -5
The Settlers of Catan is a board game, but not in the usual American sense. It is called a "Euro" game, and they have some things in common. They are usually about economic competition and control and almost never about warfare, directly. I believe, culturally, that this is a post WWII thing, as by "Euro," we really mean "German." Germans don't do war anymore. So they needed a new metaphor to game. Here is a very unofficial list of some things that Euro games have in common: Random boards with hexes that can be shuffled and rearranged each time you play. Cards that remain hidden and can often be traded. Turns that include negotiation and trade. A method of determining turns that avoids "king making." Victory determined by reaching a certain "Victory Point" number. Then they love to build variations and modifications to the core game so that they can keep making money! I mean, be creative! (Not to be cynical! I mean, I just bought an "expansion"!) In this case, I find that the "Knights and Cities" expansion, although slightly more complicated than the original rules set is actually both a more enjoyable game and, in the end, kind of makes more general intuitive sense of what you are trying to do. But it does have a lot of wheels in motion and sometimes when I play Catan half way through I will be reading through the rules about something and have to say, "oh, wait guys, I forgot about this and we've been playing it wrong. Sorry! Let's play it right from here out . . ." It is fun. I wind up, inevitably, role-playing my part because, well, if I can role-play something I will! I therefore don't like it as much as D&D (of course) but it is fun. That sounds like fun to me. I link the random boards that can be shuffled and rearranged. That helps keep the game fresh. I like the computer game Civilization and favorite version is CIV III. There are a number of different kinds of victories you can set from Conquest to Domination to Culture to Diplomatic. You use all of them, one of them or any combination. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 26, 2015 12:55:16 GMT -5
Great idea for a thread I must say, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I guess this post of mine will be reckoned as rather obscure for you fellas, since my latest RPG purchase was purely Swedish... But anyway, the stuff I bought was: Tricilve - Lojalisternas tid (translates into "Tricilve - the time of the loyalists") - A source book (adventure included) for the Svavelvinter RPG. Monster och varelser Vol. 1 (translates into "Monsters and creatures Vol. !") - a monster manual for the Old School (but not a D&D clone) game Fantasy! Old School Gaming. Ormgudens dal (translates into "Valley of the serpent god") - an adventure module to Fantasy! Old School Gaming (including a hex map and some nods to D&D, actually!) It's all cool! In fact, I am interested in how players from other countries and cultures role-play. What is similar? What is different? How is the art influenced by culture? Etc. Very cool and I too would like to hear more about these! |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 26, 2015 13:04:32 GMT -5
Thanks, The Semi-Retired Gamer! I find stuff like that very interesting myself, I must say. I won't mind sharing my experiences and knowledge, or answering any questions for that matter if someone would like to know more. But since my RPG background isn't rooted in the D&D tradition I'm not sure if this board is the right spot for that...!? I don't think it would even be an issue. This place may be rooted in D&D but from what I can tell other stuff is welcome too. Although our focus is OD&D, other classic D&D rules and their various simulacra, discussing other games is not forbidden. Especially old school games in languages other than English. I think it is valuable to this forum and to old school gaming, to have a broader context than only English speaking countries and people. So please share away. In addition, look at the Ye Olde Forum at the link collections. Links to sites that are not in English are encouraged and when posted in the appropriate thread it will be updated. So if you have a lot of Swedish links of the various types, please post them in the Ye Olde forums as you have time. I will take links in all languages so that people from every country will find something useful here. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 26, 2015 15:12:38 GMT -5
I don't think it would even be an issue. This place may be rooted in D&D but from what I can tell other stuff is welcome too. Although our focus is OD&D, other classic D&D rules and their various simulacra, discussing other games is not forbidden. Especially old school games in languages other than English. I think it is valuable to this forum and to old school gaming, to have a broader context than only English speaking countries and people. So please share away. In addition, look at the Ye Olde Forum at the link collections. Links to sites that are not in English are encouraged and when posted in the appropriate thread it will be updated. So if you have a lot of Swedish links of the various types, please post them in the Ye Olde forums as you have time. I will take links in all languages so that people from every country will find something useful here. Thumbs up, Necromancer! |
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Post by Necromancer on Jan 26, 2015 18:02:40 GMT -5
Ok then, cool! Now I know, thanks guys! |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 26, 2015 22:47:31 GMT -5
Ok then, cool! Now I know, thanks guys! No problem! Share away! |
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Post by Necromancer on Jan 28, 2015 5:31:56 GMT -5
This was one of the products I mentioned in my post above, the Ormgudens dal (Valley of the Serpent God) adventure model for the Fantasy! Old School Gaming RPG that I bought. I thought it could be cool for you guys to see it! (However, the other products for this game don't share that graphic profile - this was made as a tribute, as you probably can tell!)  |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 28, 2015 6:57:50 GMT -5
Fascinating! |
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Post by tetramorph on Jan 28, 2015 20:08:07 GMT -5
Necromancer, that is so totally RAD! You are officially OLD SCHOOL! So no more shame about posting! I can't wait to learn more.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 29, 2015 0:08:38 GMT -5
Necromancer, that is so totally RAD! You are officially OLD SCHOOL! So no more shame about posting! I can't wait to learn more. I second that motion! |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 30, 2015 15:49:00 GMT -5
Necromancer, that is so totally RAD! You are officially OLD SCHOOL! So no more shame about posting! I can't wait to learn more. I second that motion! ...and the motion carries!! |
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Post by Necromancer on Jan 30, 2015 16:32:36 GMT -5
Admin Pete, tetramorph, The Semi-Retired Gamer: thanks you guys! I've actually started thinking about writing something about Swedish RPG history. Just rather briefly, focusing on the early stuff so it would fit the board. Haven't hade the time to do it, but I think it would be rather fun for me walking down that memory lane and give you a guided tour at the same time!  Don't know where to post something like that though, General discussion or any other suggestion? |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 30, 2015 17:14:22 GMT -5
Admin Pete, tetramorph, The Semi-Retired Gamer: thanks you guys! I've actually started thinking about writing something about Swedish RPG history. Just rather briefly, focusing on the early stuff so it would fit the board. Haven't hade the time to do it, but I think it would be rather fun for me walking down that memory lane and give you a guided tour at the same time! Don't know where to post something like that though, General discussion or any other suggestion? for now I think here in General Discussion is the place for it. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 31, 2015 1:03:03 GMT -5
Admin Pete, tetramorph, The Semi-Retired Gamer: thanks you guys! I've actually started thinking about writing something about Swedish RPG history. Just rather briefly, focusing on the early stuff so it would fit the board. Haven't hade the time to do it, but I think it would be rather fun for me walking down that memory lane and give you a guided tour at the same time! Don't know where to post something like that though, General discussion or any other suggestion? Sounds like a fascinating read! |
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Post by Necromancer on Feb 23, 2015 7:07:55 GMT -5
So I took the train to a nearby city last friday to visit the local combined game and sci fi/fantasy book store (unfortunately there are no such stores left in the city where I live). I picked up two new RPG modules, both for Fantasy! Old School Gaming: the adventure module Spindelkonungens pyramid (translates into "Pyramid of the Spider King") and Monster och varelser vol. 2 (being a monster manual). The first one actually being an extended, adapted remake of the very first RPG adventure published in Sweden, back in '82. The second one (the monster manual) included the first of my own RPG illustrations that I've managed to get published (I hope there will be more!) - three monster pics! So that was pretty cool to see! While I was there, I also picked up a hardbound copy of a Swedish translation of The Dying Earth by Jack Vance for a really good price - and this edition was printed in '83 and out of print for many, many years, but it was new, not used! I was quite surprised, I must say, but very positively so. Actually I haven't read that book before, but I've heard a lot about it and I know it's been very influential for D&D, so I'm looking forward to read it! |
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Post by makofan on Feb 23, 2015 8:58:12 GMT -5
My latest RPG purchase was back in November, when I bought Judges Guild products "Sea Steeds and Wave Riders" and "Temple Book 1". I have almost all their old products in print, but was missing these two  |
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