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Out of Character 6.

Posted by NarratorFor group archive 0
Narrator
GM, 4231 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Tue 1 Aug 2017
at 22:34
  • msg #110

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Narrator (msg # 109):

Be back on tomorrow
Chye Isuel
player, 812 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Isuel!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Tue 1 Aug 2017
at 22:42
  • msg #111

Re: Out of Character 6

so a couple shadow elves, a couple humans, and an ogre, walk into a bar... (Observation = last post in wastrel's hope, sounds like the beginning of a classic "bar" joke. xD)
Sorsha
player, 657 posts
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 00:44
  • msg #112

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 111):

What is this about shadow elves, the greatest elves of all time?
Chye Isuel
player, 814 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Isuel!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 01:56
  • msg #113

Re: Out of Character 6

that makes me wonder about the elves of northport. I'm partial to high elves, myself.
Christine Bjorn
player, 1200 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 02:00
  • msg #114

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 113):

No, mountain Elves rule...and they are not evil either. Just ask the trolls...
Danos
player, 396 posts
Mountain Elf
Thief
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 02:56
  • msg #115

Re: Out of Character 6

Danos raises a bright blue eyebrow in agreement with Christine.
Brodak
player, 274 posts
orc warrior
brutish but honorable
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 03:11
  • msg #116

Re: Out of Character 6

The thought of elves causes Brodak to scratch his ass ... they are often just a pain there.
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 1097 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP: 9/9 FP: 9/10
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 05:47
  • msg #117

Re: Out of Character 6

Meh.  Elves are elves.  T'e only thing special about some o' t'em is t'ey flexibility.  It's astounding how t'ey can shove t'ey heads so far up t'ey own arseholes.

'Course same said about most people.

/looks around... sees all the other Elves...

Oh, ah... wait.  I mean t'e Elves is t'e best, t'ey piss fine Wine an shit out Lembas Bread.

Close call.  Almost broke t'e code.
Christine Bjorn
player, 1201 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 06:37
  • msg #118

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 117):

Indeed, we were getting ready to send the lads to have a reeducation sessions with you. Or find some happy pills if the computer suggested it...
Danos
player, 398 posts
Mountain Elf
Thief
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 13:42
  • msg #119

Re: Out of Character 6

Our telescopic vision allows us to identify and avoid haters from a long distance :)
Ales Konstantin
player, 552 posts
Spellsword
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 15:18
  • msg #120

Re: Out of Character 6

Elves... smelves.  I prefer dwarves myself.

Err... don't mind me; just stirring the pot.
Chou-Zhen Mou
player, 546 posts
Not quite right but
a mage none the less
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 22:27
  • msg #121

Re: Out of Character 6

I see little difference between any of the races of Northport, other than size and color.  I have a slight preference for Sahudese humans, but that's only because my mother is one.
Narrator
GM, 4233 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 23:31
  • msg #122

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 121):

Heaby day at work, Family thing, be catching up tomorrow
Chye Isuel
player, 816 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Isuel!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 03:34
  • msg #123

Re: Out of Character 6

i just got my hands on gurps star wars 4e....
Christine Bjorn
player, 1202 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 04:58
  • msg #124

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 123):

I know of a few GURPs space games that have struggled. I run a GURPs 4e Traveller one here, but there are only about 3-4 other folk interested I know of.

Apaet from Tortuga, who regularly starts new games and then leaves them before the 1000 post mark. At least 2 games I can remember so far, one of which was also a GURPs Traveller one, and the other a Post-Apocalyptic one I just took over...
Urrun
player, 30 posts
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:21
  • msg #125

Re: Out of Character 6

GURPS Star Wars? That just sounds lethal, heh...
Christine Bjorn
player, 1203 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:26
  • msg #126

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Urrun (msg # 125):

We had a game with a pointless system for GURPS Star Wars at one point, but it kind of ran out of puff...
Urrun
player, 31 posts
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:28
  • msg #127

Re: Out of Character 6

I would assume they recommend some cinematic qualities to help curtail the high tech weaponry?
Christine Bjorn
player, 1204 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:34
  • msg #128

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Urrun (msg # 127):

Not required. GURPs handles UltraTech quite well. I use similar Tech in the Travellar game I run, and I don't think the weaponry gets out of hand. Get in the way of a ship-ship weapon, and you would be rolling up  new character, but I don't think that has happened. Though there was a few occasions when tanks and infantry and ship weapons all mixed it up...
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 1099 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP: 9/9 FP: 9/10
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:36
  • msg #129

Re: Out of Character 6

Urrun:
I would assume they recommend some cinematic qualities to help curtail the high tech weaponry?

Definitely needed for Star Wars.  Otherwise all those "just a flesh wounds" would be lethal.
Christine Bjorn
player, 1205 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 05:56
  • msg #130

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 129):

Star Wars itself is Cinematic, but if you were playing a Storm trooper, it would not necessarily be so!
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 1100 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP: 9/9 FP: 9/10
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 07:04
  • msg #131

Re: Out of Character 6

Christine Bjorn:
Star Wars itself is Cinematic...

Generally, yes.  But I mean, "Yes, You Definitely Need To Add In The Cinematic Rules" if you are using GURPS as there are no offical GURPS Star Wars supplements.

Unless you are running an "inspired by" campaign like my Sengoku Jedi* Star Wars campaign which was considerably more 'gritty' (even though I can't help myself and always run using most of the Action rules**).

I feel the need to pimp Mailanka's Psi-Wars*** game right about here... it's a more "played straight" inspired-by Stars Wars setting.


* Yes, the Waring States of Jedi

** There wasn't so much more 'death' as it was more 'grey morality'.  Neither the Rebels nor the Empire were "Good" or "Evil", they were varying shades of both as befits a game built using tropes from Star Wars and the Sengoku Jidai period of Japan.  In fact I gave my Players the choice (as a group):  Do you side with the Rebels or the Empire at game start?  Since the campaign was literally set up to fit either (at least at the outset).

Of course they all choose Empire.  And of course they didn't all stay Empire as the game progressed and things got even more gray.

*** http://mailanka.blogspot.com/2...psi-wars-primer.html

quote:
but if you were playing a Storm trooper, it would not necessarily be so!

If you're playing Storm Troopers in Star Wars that's a "Meat-Grinder" game where everyone brings 50+ pregen characters and see how many they go through per session.

Worse than Tomb of Horros.  At least in ToH the characters have a chance of surviving.
Christine Bjorn
player, 1206 posts
blue haired
mountain elf
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 10:47
  • msg #132

Re: Out of Character 6

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 131):

Interesting. Actually, you asked about what movies were like Star Wars, but not it. I actually thought of Firefly before you mentioned it, but Firefly is pretty much set in a universe that could be traveller. I would definitely say the Traveller and Star War universes are much closer to each other than to Star Trek, for example.
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 1101 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP: 9/9 FP: 9/10
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 17:14
  • msg #133

Re: Out of Character 6

Christine Bjorn:
I would definitely say the Traveller and Star War universes are much closer to each other than to Star Trek, for example.

I agree.  Traveller feels like it sits in the middle of the two, a little of one, a little of the other.
Walter Goldman
player, 103 posts
torchbearer
retired sailor
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 18:15
  • msg #134

Re: Out of Character 6

I've found that a little bit of Ablative DR can be used to create a somewhat cinematic feel in certain games without HP getting too out of control and creating some other issues.  I used Ablative (and some semi-ablative) tough skin to run a pro-wrestling GURPS campaign and be able to do so without one or two moves ending a fight right away.
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