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by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:54 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: So I Finally bought The Wilderlands...
Replies: 31
Views: 835

serleran wrote:
Wilderlands is great. Wish there'd be a re-release of The City-State (either of them) but I'll wait and see if someone *cough - James* will do that.

I wish *cough* someone would do a new City-State of the World Emperor. That bugger is hard to find.
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:35 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Fantasy Imperium and C&C = mutually exclusive?
Replies: 9
Views: 1520

rabindranath72 wrote: You could try a rule like the one in Call of Cthulhu, that is put a damage threshold, beyond which a character dies even if he has a large sum of hit points. I tested this approach, and found that a threshold of Con hit points works fine enough in most cases. In Stormbringer (...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:59 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: StarSIEGE?!?!
Replies: 60
Views: 7003

cheeplives wrote: This isn't done, but are there any suggestions of things I should definitely not miss? Hmn, I don't know if it's not-to-miss, but I like to see some up-front discussion of the game's focus or (in the case of NovaSiege) it's generality. That is, how the mechanics support exploratio...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:08 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Sing me a Song of Fire & Ice....
Replies: 22
Views: 3211

gideon_thorne wrote: Author's want to make money, so they write what sells. Thats the practical side of the business. Generally, only after an author has made sufficient money are they able to do their own 'arty' book. And yes, I get this straight from the source. I hang out with a lot of authors, ...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:56 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Sing me a Song of Fire & Ice....
Replies: 22
Views: 3211

gideon_thorne wrote: *chuckles* All fantasy, modern or otherwise, in some way apes litterary, or mythological works from an earlier time. Such a comparison is moot. I don't want to derail the thread, but there is a significant difference between being inspired or informed by something, and slavishl...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:29 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Sing me a Song of Fire & Ice....
Replies: 22
Views: 3211

<t>I could so easily digress here about how much modern fantasy slavishly apes Tolkien's Epic Fantasy and why it, therefore, tends to suck. Jordan is just so much the obvious poster boy for that. What's funny, of course, is that he also writes terrible Conan pastiches, so he is an equal opportunity ...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:03 am
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Sing me a Song of Fire & Ice....
Replies: 22
Views: 3211

Re: Sing me a Song of Fire & Ice....

Rhuvein wrote: Very interesting. I'm familiar with his work, but haven't read any of the novels. Wow, they are long and detailed. Hmm, I'll be on vacation next week, I might pick up the first one. I don't have HBO, but if I like the book, I may get it. I absolutely intended to HATE the first book. ...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:52 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: StarSIEGE?!?!
Replies: 60
Views: 7003

<t>Well, I guess the idea is to assign some sort of "cost" to alien/robot abilities (and it really needs to include robots too), much as one somehow assigns an XP cost to class abilties in C&C. But in...uh...the Nameless Game, there is no XP chart or levels, so the cost has to be born by:<br/> X...
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:26 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: StarSIEGE?!?!
Replies: 60
Views: 7003

Rhuvein wrote:
Greetings and welcome, to the Fiendish Dr. Glad to see you over here!

Thanks. Same to you, noble monk.
by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara
Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:11 pm
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: StarSIEGE?!?!
Replies: 60
Views: 7003

<t>Couple of comments:<br/> <br/> 1. Josh, I gave you some comments a long time on this. If you cant find it, Ill look to see if I still have them. Mostly, I liked all the changes you made from C&C, such as no classes, no 3-18 attributes, skill bundles, and whatnot.<br/> <br/> I recall not being...