Comments on: An A-to-Z List of Lesser-Known Roleplaying Games: Part 3 http://www.rpggm.com/blog/2009/08/04/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-3/ No scenario survives contact with the PCs ... No system survives contact with the GM Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Siskoid http://www.rpggm.com/blog/2009/08/04/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-3/#comment-285 Siskoid Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:50 +0000 http://www.rpggm.com/blog/?p=264#comment-285 Dyson: That is exactly how I perceived Al-Amarja too. Interzone all the way. Jade: Haha. Well, in some areas, anything other than D&D is met with dead stares. Dyson: That is exactly how I perceived Al-Amarja too. Interzone all the way.

Jade: Haha. Well, in some areas, anything other than D&D is met with dead stares.

]]> By: admin http://www.rpggm.com/blog/2009/08/04/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-3/#comment-282 admin Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:19:48 +0000 http://www.rpggm.com/blog/?p=264#comment-282 @Siskoid - Thanks for all your input! You're right: <em>Over the Edge</em> isn't as obscure as many of the others I've listed and that's why I called them "Lesser Known" rather than "obscure" or "unknown". Of course, I think how "lessor" some of them are known has a lot to do with how long you've been gaming and what's popular in your area. I've had many people who've been gaming for 10-15 years who've looked at me blankly when I've mentioned OTE, so it's very subjective. Keep the comments coming -- I'm really enjoying them :) . @Dyson - Thanks of taking the time to post a comment. I love Over the Edge's surreality [is that a word? Is now ;) ] too. I reminds me of the Prisoner in feel, but I think that's very much me reading into the game. You're right about the descriptor skills technique. At some point, I want to do a biography of the gaming hobby, including things like "first game to use skill systems," "first game to use dice pool," etc. So keep the info coming. :D . @Siskoid – Thanks for all your input! You’re right: Over the Edge isn’t as obscure as many of the others I’ve listed and that’s why I called them “Lesser Known” rather than “obscure” or “unknown”. Of course, I think how “lessor” some of them are known has a lot to do with how long you’ve been gaming and what’s popular in your area. I’ve had many people who’ve been gaming for 10-15 years who’ve looked at me blankly when I’ve mentioned OTE, so it’s very subjective. Keep the comments coming — I’m really enjoying them :) .

@Dyson – Thanks of taking the time to post a comment. I love Over the Edge’s surreality [is that a word? Is now ;) ] too. I reminds me of the Prisoner in feel, but I think that’s very much me reading into the game. You’re right about the descriptor skills technique. At some point, I want to do a biography of the gaming hobby, including things like “first game to use skill systems,” “first game to use dice pool,” etc. So keep the info coming. :D .

]]> By: Dyson Logos http://www.rpggm.com/blog/2009/08/04/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-3/#comment-279 Dyson Logos Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:07:40 +0000 http://www.rpggm.com/blog/?p=264#comment-279 I think that Over the Edge is more notable for the "descriptor skills" technique than the die pool system (which previously appeared in Star Wars and Ghostbusters). The descriptor skills go on to become the entirety of the Risus RPG effectively. And Over the Edge is an awesome surreal game. I think this was the first game to actually be marketed as surreal. The system is simple, the setting mostly believable. But the edges of the world of Over the Edge are a lot more like the hallucinations of Interzone in Naked Lunch, mixed with a liberal dosage of the Steve Jackson vision of the Illuminati. The fact that we started playing this right after the movie of Naked Lunch came out probably had a lot to do with the surreality of the games we played in the setting. We hunted for the meat of the giant aquatic centipede, we had missions given to us by payphones that grew anuses and then excreted the mission briefings into our hands, and we ate some mighty fine pea soup. All in a day’s work on Al-Amarja. .-= Dyson Logos´s last blog ..<a href="http://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/mutant-future-gamma-world-and-me/" rel="nofollow">Mutant Future, Gamma World, and Me</a> =-. I think that Over the Edge is more notable for the “descriptor skills” technique than the die pool system (which previously appeared in Star Wars and Ghostbusters). The descriptor skills go on to become the entirety of the Risus RPG effectively.

And Over the Edge is an awesome surreal game. I think this was the first game to actually be marketed as surreal. The system is simple, the setting mostly believable. But the edges of the world of Over the Edge are a lot more like the hallucinations of Interzone in Naked Lunch, mixed with a liberal dosage of the Steve Jackson vision of the Illuminati. The fact that we started playing this right after the movie of Naked Lunch came out probably had a lot to do with the surreality of the games we played in the setting. We hunted for the meat of the giant aquatic centipede, we had missions given to us by payphones that grew anuses and then excreted the mission briefings into our hands, and we ate some mighty fine pea soup. All in a day’s work on Al-Amarja.
.-= Dyson Logos´s last blog ..Mutant Future, Gamma World, and Me =-.

]]> By: Siskoid http://www.rpggm.com/blog/2009/08/04/an-a-to-z-list-of-lesser-known-roleplaying-games-part-3/#comment-266 Siskoid Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:06:20 +0000 http://www.rpggm.com/blog/?p=264#comment-266 Nice list. I have Macho Women and OTE, the latter of which I didn't think was "less known" having gone through more than one edition and being the direct ancestor of Unknown Armies. I've been looking for Nobilis for a while now, but the others you mention... mmm, well, they make me salivate too! Nice list. I have Macho Women and OTE, the latter of which I didn’t think was “less known” having gone through more than one edition and being the direct ancestor of Unknown Armies.

I’ve been looking for Nobilis for a while now, but the others you mention… mmm, well, they make me salivate too!

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