Slaine, Dead?!
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tarkhan bey
Mongoose
Hi Ravelli, If you check out Matt's post on page 3 of "The Baileoisin update thread" you will find a small hint that something new is in the pipeline.
The thread is a bit further down this page.
The thread is a bit further down this page.
tarkhan bey said:Hi Ravelli, If you check out Matt's post on page 3 of "The Baileoisin update thread" you will find a small hint that something new is in the pipeline.
The thread is a bit further down this page.
Yep, dig through that. It's the first clue! At least I would assume so I stink with clues. Still, that thread alone id a pretty good read.
~Rex
Matthew was very tight-lipped. I remarked that I was sad to hear of the demise of Slaine and he said something new was in the works. Of course my heart leapt and I inquired further, but could gain no advantage but he gave me to understand that something-Slaine is coming.
But news has a way of sprouting wings, so let fly the suppositions and wild ideas!
I think Gerard Butler is starring in a Slaine movie, with Courtney Love and Eric Idle.
But news has a way of sprouting wings, so let fly the suppositions and wild ideas!
I think Gerard Butler is starring in a Slaine movie, with Courtney Love and Eric Idle.
Standing-Stone
Banded Mongoose
Slaine film with Gerard Butler.
You made me look and he's doing voice character in viking anaimation about ffighting dragons.
You made me look and he's doing voice character in viking anaimation about ffighting dragons.
Ah, cheers tarkhan bey!tarkhan bey said:Hi Ravelli, If you check out Matt's post on page 3 of "The Baileoisin update thread" you will find a small hint that something new is in the pipeline.
The thread is a bit further down this page.
I'd actually read that thread but had forgotten Matt's little dropsie. I tell you, it's harder work mucking out the minotaur (see Slaine "Spoils of Annwn") than it is keeping track of all the hints Matt drops on various fora. :wink: I mostly agree with your views in that thread, too, tb. I've got all the d20 Slaine stuff as well as the RQ version (complete with Mongoose in-house-printing bendy pages) and would rather not buy the same material again. However, the 'goose has returned to colour printing for some of its books, and I'd sacrifice my dwarf's right nut for a new full colour Slaine rulebook.
I think that printing the RQ version in b&w could only have adversely affected its sales. Using that new Clint Langley art was a grand idea, but not if you're going to print the blessed thing in such murky tones. That book could have had eye-popping potential but ended up looking decidely ugly. The d20 edition, with its b&w and colour, was much more visually arresting.
With RQ2 imminent, a compatible colour version that corrected some of the ommissions and odd rulings of the first version would be warmly welcomed by me. But not by my one-nutted dwarf! :twisted:
Cool, thanks evilernie!evilernie said:
Marvelous hearing more from the horse's mouth, and all without smearing peanut butter on their gums! :twisted: Butler, Idle and Love and in Slaine The Motion Picture ... Who's Courtney playing: Niamh, Nest, Medb, Scota... or Slough Feg?!
Daithi O'an tSionnaigh
Mongoose
RQ2! Man I have hardly had a chance to play with all the RQ books I have now. I just cannot keep up with all these new versions of books. Just don't have the cash and frankly I am getting a bit soured on the whole RPGing thing when a lot of my favourite companies are bring new editions of everything and trying to cater to the MMO crowd. I hope Mongoose is not doing this.
I understand companies have to do this from time to time so I don't need the history lesson. But man sometimes new editions don't need to come so soon. However that being said IF a Slaine Hardcover RQ book was released and expanded in gorgeous Technicolour and Dolby Stereo Sound! Then I am game!
I understand companies have to do this from time to time so I don't need the history lesson. But man sometimes new editions don't need to come so soon. However that being said IF a Slaine Hardcover RQ book was released and expanded in gorgeous Technicolour and Dolby Stereo Sound! Then I am game!
I'd like to see it as a complete edition, instead of an Add-on, since, carrying all these books around at Conventions for the demo, well, Rex is getting Old.
Not Out and done though. Old like a Grizzly Bear or Silver Back Gorilla Old.
Still, one book would be nice. Make it, Ptolus sized. Slaine deserves a book, you can use to brutal effect in a beat down.
~Rex
Not Out and done though. Old like a Grizzly Bear or Silver Back Gorilla Old.
Still, one book would be nice. Make it, Ptolus sized. Slaine deserves a book, you can use to brutal effect in a beat down.~Rex
PrinceYyrkoon
Mongoose
I dont really want to buy ANOTHER Slaine rulebook. Yeah, ok, if it was self-contained and HB and colour, I'd buy, but it would feel like another attempt at a 'rebirth' rather than something progressive.
A nice colour sourcebook or mega scenario book would be good.
But, please god, not a Traveller version.
A nice colour sourcebook or mega scenario book would be good.
But, please god, not a Traveller version.
charliebananas
Mongoose
I'd love to see a Traveller version, but not at the cost of anyone elses fun, I don't think its going to happen but the whole 2000ad universe in Traveller editions would be cool. As for Slaine I have the d20 version but have never played it, not a big fan of d20, and I don't run BRP games, just play in them, but a Traveller version I would run, the rules are just great, but then I've a;ways wanted to see that Wanderer mock game.
When Strontium Dog comes out we will have a Traveller Magic/Sorcery system and if Mongoose don't do a Trav-Slaine then I may have ago. :wink:
When Strontium Dog comes out we will have a Traveller Magic/Sorcery system and if Mongoose don't do a Trav-Slaine then I may have ago. :wink:
PrinceYyrkoon
Mongoose
charliebananas said:
Theres no common position it seems!
I like Travellers simplicity, but I think its a bit 'broad brush' for something like Slaine. Tir Nan Og isnt a Sword World. RQ is perfect for Slaine, no doubt as far as Im concerned. Ive never seen a better fit for a world and game system than RQ with Slaine.
So, again, I dont feel that it needs another rulebook, unless its something special, ie, stand alone, colour and HB. It just needs a bit of TLC. A screen, for instance, would at least be something.
charliebananas
Mongoose
Yeah I think that if they did a Traveller Slaine it would be a limited line, but as I say i don't think Mongoose are going to do that. As for Runequest I used to love Gloranthan BRP, much more than D&D back in the early eighties, but now I prefer the simplicity of Traveller and I agree it does use a broad brush, I think thats what I like about it.
Whatever the fate of Slaine I hope that it gets the TLC it needs, and that we are all happy with it.
Whatever the fate of Slaine I hope that it gets the TLC it needs, and that we are all happy with it.
Daithi O'an tSionnaigh
Mongoose
RuneQuest is the perfect fit for Slaine! And a little TLC would be nice. A players guide, GM screen, Even a new book every now and again would be nice. But to have products stop and start all the time gets old fast. Slaine is one of those games I could never get tired off. But an official PDF errata for RQSlaine would be nice!
charliebananas
Mongoose
I guess the problem is, Runequest is a great fit for Slaine as long as you like the Basic Roleplay System, thing is some people don't like it, for them its not such a great fit. I think it's better than the D20 version but I still haven't bought it, and probably will never buy it while it's using BRP, it's just not a system I enjoy running anymore.
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