Great Ideas Just Keep On Coming!

[PrinceYyrkoon]

Ok, ready?

Dont come to any immediate conclusions, just let it mull over in your minds for a little while, ok?

Dragonquest (spi). Wizards dont want it, and its actually pretty A.

What do you think?

OR

Powers & Perils. I know its a bit 'out there', but, I liked it.

Oh, and who said they hated Tekumel?! What the hell?! :evil:

 

[aspqrz]

Oh, and who said they hated Tekumel?! What the hell?! :evil:

Whomever, they're due a visit from the Goddess of the Pale Bone, or, perhaps, the One Other ... or, if one is feeling really vengeful, both.

:shock: :twisted: :wink:

Let's see, MRQ Tekumel or Traveller Tekumel?

Decisions, decisions

Phil

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

Oh, I think the 'high ride' is certainly good enough for their edification.

No need to over indulge them!

 

[aspqrz]

Oh, I think the 'high ride' is certainly good enough for their edification.

No need to over indulge them!

True.

Obviously uncultured barbarians (Nluss, perhaps) - they would not appreciate the true honour of gaining the attentions of the Pariah Gods :twisted:

Perhaps they could be reanimated and made useful as guardians for some of the underworld temples?

Waste not, want not :wink:

Which still leaves us with the question - RQ Tekumel or Traveller Tekumel (now that Strontium Dog evidently includes rules for Magic) :?

Phil

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

After a quick divinational sacrifice, the wishes of our Lord of the Blue Room are—'RuneQuest'.

'Traveller' lacks the, ahem, delicacy for depicting the subtler forms of barbarian elucidation.

(much snapping)

 

[aspqrz]

After a quick divinational sacrifice, the wishes of our Lord of the Blue Room are—'RuneQuest'.

'Traveller' lacks the, ahem, delicacy for depicting the subtler forms of barbarian elucidation.

(much snapping)

Yes. I suspect it would probably appeal to the Nluss, as well -- so RQ Tekumel it is!

Or possibly it should be RQ Empire of the Petal Throne.

Phil McGregor

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

After a quick divinational sacrifice, the wishes of our Lord of the Blue Room are—'RuneQuest'.

'Traveller' lacks the, ahem, delicacy for depicting the subtler forms of barbarian elucidation.

(much snapping)

Yes. I suspect it would probably appeal to the Nluss, as well -- so RQ Tekumel it is!

Or possibly it should be RQ Empire of the Petal Throne.

Phil McGregor

I game designer, hmm? thinks I reckon if a complete set of Tekumel setting rules for RQ were to drop through Mongooses doors, they would seriously consider it for publication...

Yup, I prefer 'RQ - Empire of the Petal Throne' too. Get to it.

 

[celmive]

Oh, and who said they hated Tekumel?! What the hell?! :evil:

That would be me...

I enjoyed it at first way back but soon found it annoying and limiting so it joined Jorune in what I used to call my "Stink" pile. I ended up giving it away in the mid 80's.

Dragonquest though.... OH YES ! Excellent game. I bought that shortly after I got the AD&D Monster Manual in the 70's. I prefered it to AD&D but everyone else wanted to stick with TSR. I ran a few sessions of it and found it better to GM and write stuff for. On the basis of that I bought their UNIVERSE RPG. That worked until I picked up Traveller then that too was never looked at again.

Many memories

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

Oh, and who said they hated Tekumel?! What the hell?! :evil:

That would be me...

I enjoyed it at first way back but soon found it annoying and limiting so it joined Jorune in what I used to call my "Stink" pile. I ended up giving it away in the mid 80's.

Dragonquest though.... OH YES ! Excellent game. I bought that shortly after I got the AD&D Monster Manual in the 70's. I prefered it to AD&D but everyone else wanted to stick with TSR. I ran a few sessions of it and found it better to GM and write stuff for. On the basis of that I bought their UNIVERSE RPG. That worked until I picked up Traveller then that too was never looked at again.

Many memories

Yeah, you can still get a pdf of Universe somehwere online. Did you ever see the supplement? I think spi rpg stuff was sadly maligned. Dragonquest couldda bin a contendah! Apart from a few strange mechanic decisions, I always thought it was special. It played really well, too, obviously a much better engine than D&D at the time. Shows, as TSR buried it under a big pile of rocks never to be seen again!

I thought Jorune was a bit derivative of Tekumel, in some ways. But Tekumel? Stink pile?! Youre crazy man! But, I guess, some aspects of it look a little dated now, some of the races. I suppose, are a bit cheez. Great invention though, sadly, never got the system it deserved.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

'Jorune' was based on a heavily modified 'Metamorphosis Alpha' campaign (which is still in print).

I still like them both.

 

[celmive]

I can see the appeal of Tekumel - heck I even enjoyed it for a while... it just wasn't one I could continue with considering Greyhawk (Yumm) and Man Myth & Magic (slobber) and.... Dragonquest (licks lips) and others.... compared to them it didn't press my buttons and was just missing something.

Yep Jorune was very MA - a game I loathed !

SPI was THE Company for me - was so happy when it was grabbed by TSR thinking lots would come of it and so fed up 6 months later when I got a letter from Gary Gygax saying they were not going to do anything with it

 

[Osentalka]

DragonQuest?
Great idea.
But it may be hard to get the license out of Hasbro/Wizards (everything they have purchased they publish by themselves or lock it away so that nobody else can publish it).

Powers & Perils?
Why republish one of the biggest mistakes in roleplaying history. Only a few games are worth than this (Lords of Creation comes to mind).

Tekumel?
YES!
MRQ Tekumel would be great.
There is a fan conversion somewhere... for RQ3.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

There is a fan conversion somewhere... for RQ3.

There is Sandy Petersen's (somewhat official) conversion available at: http://www.tekumel.com/downloads/RQtekumel.pdf

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

DragonQuest?
Great idea.
But it may be hard to get the license out of Hasbro/Wizards (everything they have purchased they publish by themselves or lock it away so that nobody else can publish it).

Powers & Perils?
Why republish one of the biggest mistakes in roleplaying history. Only a few games are worth than this (Lords of Creation comes to mind).

Tekumel?
YES!
MRQ Tekumel would be great.
There is a fan conversion somewhere... for RQ3.

We just have to find where WotC buried Dragonquest.

Whats wrong with P&P man? Aint got the stomach for it? :lol: It was a cross between RQ and...something weird.... If you support Powers & Perils, I'll put a vote in for Kult!

Yes, it was an S Petersen version. I have it, its good. This means the hard work has pretty much been done, so Mongoose just have to publish!