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Spanky the Leprechaun is banned. Why?

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:

Ban-Jovi.

Locke1520 banned.Reason?

He won't stay dead:
Not what the elves would have you think.

Munkir is banned for that heinous and totally uncalled for insult. How dare you sir.

Madclaw is banned for being such a gentleman.

Madclaw is banned for being the first self-punishing Viking/Monk

Ordering orbital bombardment of BAN upon thread; just to be on the safe side
*fzzziiit* <BAAAAAAAAAN> *Radio silence*

PS: the effects will sound better during post production.Shhtt

DSP is banned because I am sure DJ-B meant the Super Baseball of the 2020s

Geist is banned due to smoking a pot

The floating eye menace is banned for littering the thread with the filth that his race pretend to eat..Meanwhile we all know they feed off psionic energy.

Darksmokepuncher is banned because his post was almost a hook for Physics jokes...
(By the stars!So is mine...)

Nightskies is banned for being the original xenomorph but falling into obscurity after Alien.
Why man? You let your fans down...

Kelsey is re-banned because that video could pretty much inspire towards anyone's preference...

Geistlinger is banned for this and that.

Kelsey's banned because:

this song

Charles Scholz is banned for being ninja'ed by a guy who glows in the dark.

xD

Charles Scholz is banned for stealing rare pokemon cards from kids

Midnight_Angel is banned for clarifying matters that should be left unspoken..Nobody needs that mental image!

Nightskies is banned because in the world we live in there is no good or evil.

EEExcept corporations and SOPA/PIPA; those are evil...and governments and Japanese assassins with mad cyborg hound dogs...but other than that, yeah no evil.

Plus it was pyrokinesis not magic(no dnd arguments that its the same thing re-fluffed or I'll force choke the lot of ya)
or not..

Zylphryx is banned because he's right...this all evokes a tragic story
that I bore witness to and I now must relay to all of you.

Geistlinger is banned because of a time traveling and posting accident.

Zylphryx is banned for not knowing the whole story.

Chubbs McGee once on a dark,sad,day tried to use DJ-Bogie as a replacement eye...

That almost tore the fabric of the space-time continuum

I was wondering: where should I place the story? According to this ** spoiler omitted **

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or maybe

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Finally ** spoiler omitted **

Since most of those years are just a few lines in the SODAN database,it gives you nice space to fit any story

But I am unsure of the use of turbocycles..Did only the JUNKERS have them? When did they become standard?

What do you think?

I meant JORDAN not SODAN there ;p

What is this System Shock nostalgia? (misspelled and miss-placed)

I spy a little eye; I subsequently ban it

Reason: They re out of espresso

@stroVal is banned for pretending to care about the safety of others.

Everyone knows that when the trap is sprung he just returns home untouched.

Hey I didn't mean to turn incorporeal;its a defense mechanism!

@J1000 Whedonator: Another Biopunk fan!

Locke1520 is banned because Locke2012 was taken

@stroVal is banned for using incandescent eyeballs instead of compact fluorescent or LED eyeballs.

Though you can't see it in my pic here,that comment made me smile...

Spanky is banned for springing traps in confined locations with no regards to safety

Getting the drop on AstroBoy makes it all that much better.

Thats what I get by mediating a peaceful solution for the 'floating eye menace' of 2082...

Montana MacAilbert is banned for feeling good about herself in that pic

Montana MacAilbert is banned for doing the nationalist deed with a Leprechaun

That floating eye ninja is also banned!

@stroVal is banned for forgetting to pluck his eyebrows.

*In a Richard Lewis/Prince John voice* I have eyebrows??!!

CSI: Chaos Slaadi Instigations is banned, and eventually hunted down and tortured in the most painful way imaginable, because he knows too much

Carl Cascone is banned for looking like a gynoid automaton and not having an all day breakfast available at ''Carl's Bed and breakfast''

Carl is banned for invoking the band which shall not be named. Which produced such horrible films like Momma Mia. One of the worst films of all time ... yes all time. I have helped many a lost soul because of the horror that film caused.

Pierce Brosnan singing .... Oh the humanity.

You re banned because I'm half human...

The equivalent of Opera/Musical entertainment for the Energons is dancing light balls rotating one another and eventually being sucked by mini white holes

Kavren Stark is banned for letting the orcs in in the first place.

Now that I'm back: All the orcs in Thread-Land are banned

Αlso to set the mood:

OST.

I was wondering: where should I place the story? According to this

or maybe

Finally

Since most of those years are just a few lines in the SODAN database,it gives you nice space to fit any story

But I am unsure of the use of turbocycles..Did only the JUNKERS have them? When did they become standard?

What do you think?

@stroVal wrote:

Just in case we start earlier and I don't have the time to prepare most of the story: Would you know of any, Blade Runner-isque/Dickian questioning ones humanity/find the android ,rpg adventure plots?

At least out of curiosity as I ve never seen any...
Though I sincerely doubt I'll GM without preparing something.

If you're looking for pre-published stuff, you're mostly out of luck. A lot of the material I've found for this sort of genre is mostly "Here is a bad guy, go shoot him" where Bad Guy has a value usually equal to "scumbag corporation that wants to take over the world."

However!

If you grab the original... and on a different sort of scale, the TV series remake... Bubblegum Crisis OVA's, you've got a lot of very Blade-Runner/Gibson/Sterling/Stephenson type Cyberpunk to play with.

The original BGC is very much the Post-Modern, gritty, 1980's "Metal is Better Than Meat" style stuff. Figuring out who the Boomers are, and how to deal with them, and whether or not Boomers are the next step of human evolution or a very, very bad mistake. Lots of good, gritty stuff.

The TV series remake is rather Post-Human, with a lot of Trans-Human type material going on in it. It's more about "what makes you Human?" than "Is that a robot or not?" I was overall displeased with the ending, but the bulk of the show is good.

I have suggestions about systems if you want them, but since you're looking for for genre, I'll stick with this. :)

So no actual rpg material,just the series? Cool, I'll check it out thanks

Just in case we start earlier and I don't have the time to prepare most of the story: Would you know of any, Blade Runner-isque/Dickian questioning ones humanity/find the android ,rpg adventure plots?

At least out of curiosity as I ve never seen any...
Though I sincerely doubt I'll GM without preparing something.

A lot of new details here,thank you all...

Out of curiosity how many of you were content with 3.5?

I might recall jemstone not being a fan, from another thread(though I could be wrong)

I personally dislike/am tired of the overall 'handle' of 3.x systems,that is why I'm asking

Well, the Snatcher phenomenon was not limited to the city of Kobe, just as the Lucifer Alpha plague wasn't limited to simply northern Europe. Re-envisioning the story would work, but you'd have to figure out who to make the "McGuffin" character - Gillian was the (you know what) who did the (thing) with (you know who) and was put into suspension because of all that as well.

So, yes, you could replace certain characters with the PC's, so long as they were willing to work together for what amounts to the sake of one PC's story arc over all others. :)

Yes that was my original hesitation...sometimes a story is worth it but I think most players wouldn't understand that.

So maybe a prequel in the two or three years that the JUNKERS had already been working before the game takes place...

Something akin to Radio Theatre, but not regarding Gibson obviously

Considering Snatcher is a Cyberpunk Detective Noir story (and a damned fine one, at that) and Gillian Seed is a detective working for an organization (JUNKER), I don't see why not.

Just grab a copy of Cyberpunk 2020 (or V3 and tweak it) and go crazy, I say. :)

If we are to re-envision the story* of the game(and not another story within the universe) I'll need a player to be a detective and maybe replace the robot with a science officer/forensics expert(who could be an android themselves) the rest of the characters could be street samurais or some sort of outside of the law contact accordingly.Does this make any sense?

*=and why not since the players haven't finished the game

I'm going to cut against the grain, here, and endorse Saga. I'm going to heartily endorse Saga.

I cut my teeth on WEG's Star Wars. I loved it. It was awesome and fun and great. I own two different editions of it.

It also suffered from ridiculous amounts of character competency explosions, had some very large rules holes (which I will grant have been fixed in later revisions), and forsook some basic tenets of the Star Wars mythos in exchange for "making something for everyone." (Case in point: Starfighters and spaceships in SW are window dressing, only used for Dramatic Escapes or Exciting Plotpoint Backdrops. Actually investing in space combat rules misses the point of them entirely*.)

That's not to say I don't like it. See above. I LOVE it.

However, I am going to say that Saga is a better system for how I run games, and how my players play games. When they were making Saga, WOTC did a massive player survey and figured out what the players loved the most about the previous editions of the game (both WEG and D20). Thus, each Saga book deals directly with what the players and GM's wanted to see in the game. Large swaths of each book are devoted to making sure that the players understand what's going on in the universe as pertains to the book. You do not have to have anything more than the Core Book to run a very, very fun game (also true for WEG). Combat and Damage rules are consistent. Characters do not have dice explosions after investing only a moderate number of points into something. Armor works better (WEG's Armor had this notorious habit of either stopping everything or stopping nothing. Your mileage may vary, but it was this case in every WEG SW game I played or ran). Force Power rules are clear, consistent, and with a tiny bit of tweaking, balanced**.

I've run Star Wars games for my group for over ten years. I've run WEG, Star Wars D20, and Saga. The most fun my players have had has been in Saga, hands down. As I run my games exactly...

Interesting,thank you.

I can see your points though I disagree about the spaceships(in that there are novels and comics and not only the films,and you aren't taking in account secondary characters which might as well have been pcs.For instance it wasn't a backdrop through Wedge Antilles' eyes)

But we are more interested in the Force* and its users so my campaigns will focus more on it.
Could you please enlighten me further by comparing the force use in both systems?(or more details about WEG)

Cheers

*=something that before ''Force Unleashed'' didn't seem to interest a lot of people.I don't get it.If I wanted to play in a 'space marine' party there are better scifi settings to use for it(sorry its true)

CSI is banned for goading

You re banned for reminding me of earlier eras..Excellent!

I liked aspects of all three of the main Star Wars games. If I were to run it again I would probably use the Revised Edition with a few Saga and WEG tweaks and use the E6 framework.

Could the force powers of Saga work for WEG with tweaking?

I realize off course its a subjective question, but thats all I need: opinions.

I used to have some of the earlier versions of d20 star wars, but never got around to saga (which I hear corrects a lot of past mistakes and is a different beast on its own) so I will be getting rulebooks from scratch anyway.

On the other hand I remember hearing all those great things about the WEG version and wanting to get it since my first days of roleplaying(didn't get around to that due to money issues back then)

My hesitation/expectation about each one

Saga: could suffer the d20 battle system syndrome and thats bad for the SW universe which needs to be cinematic and quick.Suspect it handles Force powers greatly

WEG:Its old so it wouldn't be up to date with the universe.Its force powers could be 'weaker' as in the 90s writers were more constrained about this sort of thing(Not talking about unleashed stuff..it could be weak for even the New Jedi era)I believe it will be all about roleplaying and on the narrative approach(thats a plus obviously)

If I am to spend money on rulebooks,which version should I chose?

PS: thanks and have a happy new year!

Spanky is banned because I should be celebrating with everyone in the living room but I logged on from the bedroom anyway..I'm also intoxicated as per the rules

Kavren Stark is banned because Alanis Morissette was God in that film,not just His/She/Its* voice

*=no offense meant to Christians

DJ-Bogie is banned for not being this eye

I'm also barefoot(due to being lazy and levitating a lot) but close enough :3

Nike is banned because their shoes still don't function like the 2015 model Marty Mc Fly Jr wears in Back to the future

Also Darksmokepuncher is banned because his father,General Kael, couldn't tolerate spell-casters in the family(its bad enough he has to serve one)

Louis Agresta is banned because he's right, but I can't ban any paizo people ;p

Also the Chiron b song ruled...reminded me of home

Geistlinger is banned for giving up

Happy belated Festivus!!

All humans using caps are banned..

Bots,personality cores and/or ai constructs are allowed but should be testing at this juncture...

For Science!

We 're done here

Darksmokepuncher is banned for dismissing the attention of a hot elf chick

(I guess he prefers to spend time with his dog...)

Pickwick is banned for being too cute when twitting

Kavren Stark is awarded the price of book promoter of the week(its a pdf of a book of your choosing.I'm not that wealthy)
;)

Would the story of snatcher work in a campaign with more players than just Gillian?

I think with a bit of tampering it might...

Discuss?

Charles Scholz-> banned for ruining the shadowy sinister plot of a fellow Paizonian.Very ungentlemanlike

Kavren Star & Darksmokepuncher-> banned for not having faith in the fact that by 2023, the cyberpunk reality of the world will allow Martin to transcend human life expectancy- and even form- through technology.And if everything else fails by merging with an A.I. his uploaded consciousness will finish at least a thousand more books...

A.P.P.L.E.-> banned for not enlisting her characters in nudie bars to support her reading needs like a lot of Welsh students do

@stroVal-> banned for multiple banning