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Again, thanks. I've had to clear off my china cabinet top to hold the trophy; its big!

...now Liz is bugging me to finally break down and get a fireplace mantle. Guess we'll have to now!

GM Mike

Rhuvein wrote:Congrats!!!

It's a great game!

You're only saying that because of the walrus!


GM Mike

Thanks guys, its still a bit overwhelming!

Trav, funny you should mention that. BadMike told me they have a graphic I can use on any Victorious reprints that state it was the 2017 3C winner.

Now, will Steve want to use it? That's the question!

GM Mike

Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but Victorious won the Three Castles RPG Design Award for 2017. I'm floored and humbled, since the honor is doubly overwhelming due to the very excellent competition (Heroes Journey, Maze of the Blue Medusa, and Treasure Vaults of Zadabad). Its one thing to win a...

Yup, and if anyone's interested when we were at the Save or Die (saveordie.info) podcast we covered Pelinor in episode 126.

GM Mike

Buttmonkey wrote:Huh. I had no idea there was a list. Looks like Traveller is going to have to become my bitch if I am going to move up to the next spot.

"Ve kill yhu, den ve all muv up en rank!" - Enseign Chekov, Star Trek "Mirror Mirror"

Hello all, I've gotten some feedback on the original post last week regarding Intelligence checks in Victorious. On this post I answer a couple of questions and give more details about the INT check and how I use it at my table. http://victoriousrpg.com/2017/05/30/the-intelligence-check-part-ii/ GM ...

Since its 20,000 I suggest "Captain Nemo" as his title. Beyond the obvious connection, he is one who sails on his own terms and ignores those he doesn't agree with...confident in his journey and goals.

Sounds obvious to me!

Gm Michael

Thanks Lurker! It seems obvious on retrospect, but I've been surprised (and dismayed) at how many RPGers seem to miss that point. Its not so bad for FRPGs based on the OSR A/D&D paradyme but most skills heavy games run into this again and again, at least in my experience.

GM Mike

...or "When do I think of that?" The below link is to an article from the victorious.com page about when and how to use Intelligence checks in Victorious. It is however generic enough to be of use to anyone playing a Siege Engine RPG. http://victoriousrpg.com/2017/05/20/the-intelligence-ch...

Thanks, and the next one (#5) is over Castles & Crusades!

GM Mike

Save For Half Episode 04: "Cyborg Commando" This 1987 RPG, produced by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer with Kim Mohan, has a reputation in the gaming hobby as one of the worst RPGs ever designed. But is it really that bad? Your determined Save for Half-ling DMs take a dive into this game and ...

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I don't know about most other folks, but I always prefer a quick rundown before I try to read an RPG I dont' know about. Its why my suggested readings section in Victorious provides a paragraph annotating each product; it helps people to make a quick decision before going in deep and only when halfw...

Thanks about SFH! We're tabulating people's interests on the What's YOUR threads and figuring what's next. #4 is Cyborg Commando, and we're thinking Castles & Crusades for #5. #6...Is starting to look like either Top Secret or the Morrow Project. We are trying to alternate between a FRPG and a M...

Huh...I could've sworn I saw that earlier. Maybe I'm thinking of another game. I must have, since I only went to very local ETX cons in the late 1980s. <shrug> Of course, Traveller already have wolflike and catlike aliens (Vargr and Aslan) but the slave aspect is interesting. Though I know a lot of ...

BM, sure send the contact info over. Though one of the first q's I'll have for him is does he have any more copies. ;) Justifiers, I remember seeing that game at CoastCon 1982 but couldn't afford it at the time. I never saw it anywhere other than that convention; though I might've seen an ad for it ...

Hey Gringnr, Save for Half covers OS RPG s and the modern RPGs inspired by them. The former is obvious, but we freely admit the latter is pretty subjective...but its our show so we decide! :) We do try for published games though, so unless Rovers was published we probably won't cover it. Same with t...

Ah, the joy of random power generation. I'll probably start making a character after NTXRPGC in early June. I'm committed (or should be!) to running Victorious at the con, so most of my efforts will be preping for that game. Oh, and the podcast.

Mike

Hey all,

Here’s a chance for listeners of “Save for Half” to chime in with your own personal “Top Five” RPGs you’d like to hear us review.

Post away!

DM (Good at listening) Mike

The last Origins I went to was in 1984, when it was here in Denton of all places (!) Of course I lived outside Longview at thetime, so it was still a big drive. Like Tree, I'd love to go but its too close to NTXRPG and that has priority I'm afraid.

Maybe next year....maybe.

Mike

Last night's chat had some great questions, as well as great people. If you couldn't make it, Dan D. was kind enough to post the chat log at the below link:

https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2017/04/20 ... #more-3708

GM Mike

Well, be sure to post about it here, I do like to read about other V games...especially when the system is modified!

GM Mike

I read a few Albedo comics BITD, but our local comic store stopped carrying them just as I was starting to get interested in them. While I'm not anti-furry, they normally don't really interest me but Albedo did. I think it was more the military setting and the hard science that got me. Never saw or ...

I own quite a lot of them, but will limit myself to the ones I've actually played. Marvel Super-Heroes by TSR The TSR version was nifty, though the names given for each attribute rank (Good, Remarkable, Amazing, etc.) were kinda weird. Its value to me was its simplicity, which went out the window wi...

The author of the Victorious RPG Mike Stewart will be participating in a chat room question & answer session over the game on Thursday April 20th at 7:30pm Central. You can go to the chat room and ask questions at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/rpgnetchat If time prevents anyone from att...

<nod> Just what we can expect the NPCs and 'world' to have going on. I tried to give some sort of similar format to Victorious with the 'chronicle alignment' system. Its nice to know what to expect ahead of time.

GM Mike

- I love the 80s myself, and I’d be the last person to grouse about era-specific supers games. <G> I too remember that X-factor moment; I’ve probably got the comic around somewhere. Wasn’t it just crap that she ‘lost her telepathy’ so Scott couldn’t mindlink with her and thus be ‘reassured’ its real...

Glad to hear! We had wanted to (re)cover B/Ex on the other podcast but left before we had a chance to. So we figured we'd do it over on SFH and see if our opinions had changed... They hadn't, but it was still fun to revisit. Though if I had any regret it was doing both Basic and Expert on the same s...

Save for Half Episode #3: "Basic and Expert D&D" We're back and ready to find a dragon in a dungeon...so long as its Basic/Expert! The terrible trio of DMs Mike, Liz and Corbett throw down on dragons, ghouls, and rules lawyers in this third episode of Save for Half! It's all here at: h...