Shadowgirls

Bounty wrote: cool idea. I happen to live on the furthest inland deep-water port in the world, and I've been working on a story set in the 40's and the turn of the mellimium about post-raid deepones trying to set up a colony here, and a second wave years later.

Cool!

Bounty wrote:I'm always reluctant to set PCs up though, because every time I make PCs I want to see, my players do a horrible job of playing them like I wanted them played.

Most of the games I run for friends, end up getting re-run at conventions. Thus, pre-gens. I love seeing how people make characters their own, and how they react to the world I put them in.

This is a really fascinating idea - my firends and I have played CoC on and off for years ... but it always ends up feeling slightly the same cos the characters haven't much of a hope if they end up facing most monsters in the mythos ... however if Shadowgirls is anything to go by Mythmakers might allow for a somewhat different approach - I like it already

Definitely looking forward to this, (main reason I joined the forums was 'cause of hearing about an RPG) after playing CoC, CoCD20, and Cthulhutech -shudder at CT- will be interesting to see the system and how the mythos plays out.

I really like Shadowgirls, but D20 is kinda blech.

take a look at the "RPG forum locked thread under announcements.. they'e gone a slightly different direction from what i've been able to find

Akamaz wrote:take a look at the "RPG forum locked thread under announcements.. they'e gone a slightly different direction from what i've been able to find

The Mythmakers RPG. And the RPG forum are two totally separate things.

PhishStyx wrote:I really like Shadowgirls, but D20 is kinda blech.

Technically it's True20, not D20, but for the most part same system. D20 actually gets a bad rap most of the time. It's not a bad system for running games where simple rules to support complex or tactical combat takes place. It's got a solid magical system in place, and because of it's open source roots, there's a ton of (potentially questionable) expansion material available for it. It's also amazingly adaptable.

I can tell you're a big one for small press, and Robin Laws, but really of the ones you listed, only Unknown Armies could really handle the setting. The rest just wouldn't fit well saddly.

Bounty wrote:

PhishStyx wrote:I really like Shadowgirls, but D20 is kinda blech.

I can tell you're a big one for small press, and Robin Laws, but really of the ones you listed, only Unknown Armies could really handle the setting. The rest just wouldn't fit well saddly.

I'm intrigued by your apparently automatic put down of every game that isn't D20 on the basis that they aren't D20, except oddly Unknown Armies.

Have you even read Armageddon? How about Army of Darkness? And since when is Shadowrun a "small press" game? Also, how many of the half dozen or so games I listed were written (even in part) by Robin D. Laws?

Bounty wrote:It's not a bad system . . .

I must admit, I'm kind of curious here, when WAS the last time you saw one of the comic's characters level up? And what ARE their classes? Or alignments for that matter?

Well, I'm not a RPGer at all. That's more of a D.Rod thing than me. I just draw the book. But from what I understand, there's a couple of factors in the reason we chose the True20 System. Ease, availability, familiarity and all that stuff.

So I dunno. Truth be told, as an outsider, out of all the games you both mentioned, Shadowrun's the only one I heard of and that's because there was a Nintendo game of it.

Actually, Shadowrun now has its own MMORPG.

Well, I don't play video games, so I wouldn't know. I mean, I'm not exactly a 'gamer." How did I team up with a video game designer to do this book is an odd story to say the least.

Mach Sabre wrote:Well, I don't play video games, so I wouldn't know. I mean, I'm not exactly a 'gamer." How did I team up with a video game designer to do this book is an odd story to say the least.

I'm not complaining at you, but basically I've been pretty much trashed by this Bounty person every time he quotes me for no reason that I can determine, and I JUST GOT HERE. So far as I can tell, having an opinion that isn't his is functionally a crime in his mind.

I didn't see any trashing, but then again that is just me.

Jacobus wrote:I didn't see any trashing, but then again that is just me.

His posts directed at me were very dismissive and have a smug tone of superiority in spite of being factually incorrect in a number of areas.