tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275842292024-03-08T17:23:09.966+00:00Stuff. Also, nonsense.Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-44318001167830611072009-07-23T12:42:00.002+00:002009-07-23T12:50:32.804+00:00Dark HeresyThe first of three (?) long awaited Warhammer 40k RPGs, Dark Heresy has the players taking the roles of an Inquisitor's retinue.The system is based on WHFRP, which in turn built on the system used in the wargame.Character generation allows for a purely random method, so that's what we'll be doing.First I roll to see what sort of planet my guy came from, getting a 71 - he's been born on an Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-88059631237664317032009-07-17T16:27:00.006+00:002009-07-19T10:26:12.723+00:00Mouse GuardMouse Guard is a RPG based on the comics of the same name by David Petersen.You're playing mice. Intelligent mice with swords, but basically, still mice. They're small, furry and pretty much everything wants to eat them. Unlike other talking animal worlds there are few sapient species, just Mice, Weasels (and weasel like beasties) and hares. Owls and Bats too maybe, but again, unlike other Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-61930109101838252742009-07-15T10:07:00.008+00:002009-07-16T15:13:26.449+00:00Savage Worlds: Explorer editionSavage worlds uses a stripped down version of the system that was first seen in Deadlands.It bills itself as Fast! Furious! Fun!I've used it in the past to run a game set in the City of Villains world and found it worked reasonably well, though the granularity of the system and the limited resources you have to create characters with led to very specialised characters. They couldn't really be Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-11667353823377749042008-12-09T11:51:00.006+00:002008-12-11T19:31:54.403+00:00Create-a-character: CatPublished by the Wicked Dead Brewing company, Cat is billed as a Little Game about Little heroes. You play a cat who protects people from evil spirits - Boggins. They can do this because they can see Boggins and enter the world of dreams. The Cats are obligated to protect humans because Cats have won The Contest for the past 9000 years or so, whilst humans have come last. (Winning the contestMadcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-87673312126965312822008-03-04T21:07:00.003+00:002008-03-04T22:26:02.912+00:00AD&D 1st EditionE. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons and one of the founding fathers of the RPG hobby died today.In his honour I will be creating a 1st edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons character.This will be done entirely by the book, no houseruling unless a rule is unclear.First we have to generate our attributes. These will be generated using Method 1 - roll 4d6, drop the lowest.Strength: 6 Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-34358360605686951662007-08-14T15:00:00.000+00:002007-08-14T15:02:24.722+00:00Ars Magica 4th editionArs Magica is set in what it terms Mythic Europe. Players take the roles of Magi of the Order of Hermes, their companions and servants. One of the interesting features of Ars Magica is that it promotes the concept of Troupe style play. That is, each player will have several characters, typically a Magi and a few Companions and servants, and would rotate those characters as required by the Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-51688849109456242782007-08-07T12:05:00.000+00:002007-08-07T13:26:30.197+00:00The End"The meek have inherited the earth. Poor bastards."The End is a biblical post-apocalyptic game, set after the world has ended as per the book of Revelations. The evil have been dragged down to hell, the good have gone to heaven, and almost everyone else has died.You play one of the Meek – those who were neither good nor bad, and had turned their back on faith. (Exact faith doesn’t matter – theMadcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-20604386050408187192007-08-02T17:42:00.000+00:002007-08-02T19:21:23.309+00:00NightlifePublished in 1990 by Stellar Games, Nightlife bills itself as ‘The Role Playing Game of Urban Horror’ on the cover and as Splatterpunk inside.The cover depicts an eighties-new wave vampire holding a scantily clad woman on the tracks of a graffiti covered underground station, whilst werewolves crawl out of the tunnel and from under the platform.The internal art is sketchy but fits the subject Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-74499353388606090752007-08-01T23:50:00.000+00:002007-08-01T23:51:39.573+00:00Call of Cthuthlu 4th editionI’ll be frank. I detest Call of Cthuthlu (CoC), it’s one of the games I refuse to play. Why this hatred?The premise of CoC is that your hapless characters investigate the Cthuthulu mythos, go insane and die. Maybe not in that adventure, but they will. And they never ever have even the slightest glimmer of hope that their lives and deaths will have meant something or had a positive impact on Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-64799809122913908962007-07-31T12:20:00.000+00:002007-07-31T12:40:11.695+00:00Tales of Gargentihr: Real FantasyYet another British RPG from the mid-nineties and part of the ‘it only cost a quid’ collection, Tales of Gargentihr (ToG) is more impressive than the usual small-press offering. A 340 page perfect bound book with a large number of relatively well done illustrations (even though they seem to have been scanned at too low a resolution; there are pixels everywhere), the book is pleasant to read Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-91623518089786150422007-07-29T10:25:00.000+00:002007-07-29T12:53:13.417+00:00GURPS 3rd edition revisedRejoice O readers, for today I am looking at a game that more than a handful of people will have heard of, GURPS from Steve Jackson Games.The first real RPG I bought was a very second hand copy of the GURPS 3rd basic set when I was about 13 or so. I remember being amazed by the idea that I could stat out anything with it.I’ve only played GURPS a couple of times; a doomed IOU campaign when I was Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-38280924273728104032007-07-28T10:01:00.000+00:002007-07-28T13:32:53.518+00:00Fifth CycleWhoops, missed a few days. Blame those dreadful Rikti for invading Paragon City.Today’s character is from Fifth Cycle, another fantasy heartbreaker, but as mentioned at the end of the last character, not one from the ‘It only cost a quid’ collection. Not only do I have the main book for Fifth Cycle, I also have one of its supplements and an adventure. However my character will be created usingMadcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-6310721481830841922007-07-24T09:16:00.000+00:002007-07-24T14:47:40.530+00:00DandanonAnother day, another game from the ‘it only cost a quid’ collection.Dandanon, published by Wythchlight, is a British RPG published sometime in the mid nineties. The cover of the book is in black with an arcane diagram and the game’s name on it. It certainly looks nice, and promises an RPG with a strong occult theme.The back cover is less enticing; it makes the usual fantasy heartbreaker Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-79266187466584824852007-07-23T13:23:00.000+00:002007-07-23T22:30:19.407+00:00Darkurthe LegendsAnother one from the 'It only cost a quid' collection, DL is a fantasy heartbreaker. In short form, a RPG that attempts to improve on D&D, is obviously a labour of love by its writers and has a few neat features, but which ultimately fails to introduce anything new, and usually falls far short of the promises made to the players.From the back of DarkUrthe Legends:As the shadows of evil stretch Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-52349653376726603302007-07-23T08:02:00.000+00:002007-07-23T08:27:06.241+00:00World of SynnibarrWorld of Synnibarr has been long regarded as the king of gonzo ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ and ‘WTF were they smoking?’ game design.It’s one of the games that people joke about running, but don’t.It has two types of bear with laser beam eyes: the Sea bear and the Giant flying grizzly bear. (Potential players will be pleased to know that the Giant Sunstone, Midnight Sunstone and plain Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584229.post-22696946342603459072007-07-22T21:53:00.000+00:002007-07-22T22:04:26.898+00:00The 'Create a character' challengeWell, it's not so much a challenge, more a reason to have a look at some of the games I've bought over the years.Inspired by this thread on RPGnet, I'm going to be making one character for every RPG that I own.Where character generation is random, the dice will be obeyed. Where it is not, or choices are allowed, the goal will be to make some sort of Warrior-scholar type.Where different editions Madcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03094974847094832358noreply@blogger.com0