Near future tech is hard. I mean, hot fusion tech has seemed right around the corner for decades, and now it looks like people are having more luck with some of the bubble fusion techniques. Traditional nanotech still seems a long way off, but bio-nanotech (think cyborg cells) is starting to get close. And quantum computing could be tomorrow or never, depending if the physicists ever agree...
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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CaBil - Jun 02, 2008 11:33:12 am PDT #840 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 02, 2008 11:41:37 am PDT #841 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
If anything, they've added even more stuff I'd have to gut, change or ignore in order to run the homebrew ideas I'd really like to run.
True, but as you said that's your needs. The game needed to focus, I think. Becoming broader would have made for a momentous page count and a lot of compromises that would have left no one happy.
Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 02, 2008 11:42:43 am PDT #842 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
CaBil, any recommendations for where I can read up on a bunch of this stuff?
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 12:00:23 pm PDT #843 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
True, but as you said that's your needs.
Yeah, it's kind of tough. To really do some of my homebrew ideas justice, it would require a system more or less of my own creation, which requires work I ultimately don't want to do all that much.
Savage Worlds shows promise, but I'd still be creating a lot of my own stuff, in order to keep people from having to shell out good money for yet more gaming books.
CaBil - Jun 02, 2008 12:10:33 pm PDT #844 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Enhanced reality is also more commonly known as Augmented Reality (Learnt it the other way and still haven't managed to unlearn it)
I picked it up piecemeal, but I know at least one author has written about it, give me a day...
megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 1:40:20 pm PDT #845 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.
Should be easy to find as, of course, they are all organized in a binder... by color... then category... then cost....
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 1:47:33 pm PDT #846 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
As if I couldn't love megan more. You have Magic cards!
megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 2:01:14 pm PDT #847 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Not just any cards, a complete revised edition set!
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 2:06:19 pm PDT #848 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
That's dead sexy.
Volans - Jun 02, 2008 4:05:32 pm PDT #849 of 26132
move out and draw fire
I understand it's a perfectly valid concept for fiction, but for whatever reason it just sets my teeth on edge. I guess everyone's got something like that... what's yours?
Once again, Pete and Robert appear to share a brain, as well as a hairstyle.
I have to say that Delta Force is my #1 role-playing hate. Let's take Lovecraft's mythos, and then organize Special Forces commandos against it! OK as a premise for Doom video games, but sets my teeth on edge.
Actually, any of the RPGs where the players are part of a well-funded and supported agency, fighting the supernatural (Chill, some of the White Wolf stuff).
And I've yet to find a good system to represent martial arts. Which just became important, as Robert and I made Avatar: The RPG over dinner last night.
4E: We just ordered it. I figure I don't have any right to bitch if I haven't read the rules. But as far as I can tell, it's strictly a minis game, with the emphasis on min-maxing rather than creating interesting characters.