The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Wofano Wotanto]

I wish that was already a thing. At least from some of the luminaries we’ve already lost and some that cannot be long for this world.

There has to be some of it out there now, but it'll be scattered around blogs and forums and random social media sites, and finding examples is more a matter of luck than anything else. The OSR community has preserved some D&D camapigns that way, but digging up "war stories" for (say) early Traveller is a lot harder, and when it comes to less popular games gods help you. For ex, I'd kind of like to know what people actually did with some of the FGU games back in the day, but if there's a Space Opera or Bushido campaign memoir out there I've never seen it. I was lucky enough to randomly stumble on a titanic V&V diary that spanned decades and hundreds of sessions from multiple groups one GM ran - and then lost the url and I've never found it since.

 

[Ryujin]

There has to be some of it out there now, but it'll be scattered around blogs and forums and random social media sites, and finding examples is more a matter of luck than anything else. The OSR community has preserved some D&D camapigns that way, but digging up "war stories" for (say) early Traveller is a lot harder, and when it comes to less popular games gods help you. For ex, I'd kind of like to know what people actually did with some of the FGU games back in the day, but if there's a Space Opera or Bushido campaign memoir out there I've never seen it. I was lucky enough to randomly stumble on a titanic V&V diary that spanned decades and hundreds of sessions from multiple groups one GM ran - and then lost the url and I've never found it since.

Somewhere down the line my notes for my old 1e D&D campaign, a couple of Space Opera campaigns, Star Frontiers, and FASA Star Trek all went missing. I expect that my mother 'cleaned house', at some point, and tossed the lot thinking it was old notes from high school or college that were no longer needed. Pity, that, as I was especially fond of what I did in Space Opera. The players and I negotiated their real world stats which were, quite honestly, rather pathetic. I then ran them through a limited invasion of Earth by the Korellian Empire, their capture as slaves, training as Janissaries (in which their stats were increased to match their professions), and their escape from captivity. One of the players even managed to take down a Korellian trooper with his 30-06, before capture.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

See, that's the sort of thing I'd like to see more of.

The players and I negotiated their real world stats which were, quite honestly, rather pathetic.

That happened in V&V regularly too. Using the "real you" stats doesn't work well when your players are still in puberty and the NPC villains aren't. We eventually just gave up and started rolling for stats after the bad guys TPK'd our 14 year-old "heroes" one too many times.

 

[Ryujin]

See, that's the sort of thing I'd like to see more of.

That happened in V&V regularly too. Using the "real you" stats doesn't work well when your players are still in puberty and the NPC villains aren't. We eventually just gave up and started rolling for stats after the bad guys TPK'd our 14 year-old "heroes" one too many times.

Space Opera was pretty much the perfect system for that sort of thing, as you could "top up" your stats with the profession training stat bonus points. I also gave them all 17 scores in Psionics, which is one point below starting the game "psionically awakened." The Korellians have psionic tech that involves embedding crystals into the forehead, that increases Psionics by one point per crystal. One crystal and they'd be able to start learning psionic abilities. Two and they'd have obtained "Telergy and Self-Awareness", so they could even increase their stats more. Sadly we never got to that stage and they never found out what I'd done with PSI.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Why are you trying to kill people?

35% boredom, 35% entertainment value, 30% for the challenge...

Well, you asked.

(Okay, you didn't ask me, but...)

What meetings have you attended where someone has showed up and engaged in "bedtime activities"!?

My office really is dull.

Clearly, you've never been to Singapore a Rocky Horror picture Show convention...

 

[Thomas Shey]

Ah yes, another case of "do a long post in response to someone, and then block them." Well done.

 

[billd91]

Obvious Realization was obvious.
Also:

 

[trappedslider]

35% boredom, 35% entertainment value, 30% for the challenge...

Well, you asked.

(Okay, you didn't ask me, but...)

as long as it adds up to 100% reason to remember the name

 

[Autumnal]

Very much in response to a particular thread that I’ve managed to avoid erupting on.

 

[el-remmen]

TFW there have been literally 100+ pages added to a thread since the last you checked it out