Other blogs can be found HERE. It is over a
dozen now, so I am pretty happy with that.
The questions can be found HERE. They’ve
proven not to be perfect, but they are stimulating some good discussions and
sharing of experiences.
28
What free RPG or what non-English RPG did you enjoy most? Give details.
Since the next response is about free RPGs,
I’ll focus on non-English games. The first one I bought was the Japanese
Creguian space opera rpg. Although I never played or ran it, it was a beautiful
box set and reading it shot my Japanese level through the stratosphere. It also
inspired me to start my collection of Japanese RPGs, of which I have a dozen
now.
That said, I am intrigued by some of the
French RPGs out there. I have mentioned Empire Galactique before, with its 1980s
Metal Hurlant/Moebius art and aesthetic, and I love the look of the French
Stormbringer and Hawkmoon games. That in mind, I have to find a copy of the
Bloodlust RPG at some point. Bloodlust turns Stormbringer on its head – it is a
game where you play the intelligent weapon that makes pawns of its human
wielder. I have read a few reviews and blog postings and it seems excellent
food for thought if nothing else.
Of games I have, the Japanese RPG Ryutama is
something I would love to try. I have read through it but still need to wrap my
head around it. It is basically D&D without the focus on fighting, but
instead with a focus on character interaction and personal goals. It reminded
me a lot of the anime series Spice & Wolf, which has been called "equal parts fan service, medieval romance and macro economics anime," and would need a pretty cohesive
group to enjoy.
29
What OSR product have you enjoyed most? Explain why.
Honestly, I haven’t bought any OSR products
between living on the other side of the planet, being too busy for anything but
intermittent gaming, and shouldering the financial burden of school, the wife
and child, as well as meself. I have interacted with OSR bloggers who refuse to
consider the opinion of anyone who hasn’t either sold or bought an OSR product.
Well bollocks to that. I say nay to either
the OSR as a buyer or seller’s club. I’ll do my own thing thank you very much.
When I have free time to game and money to
shop I may treat myself with the cream of the crop (Vornheim, Dungeon Alphabet,
Barrowmaze, ASE1, Death Frost Doom, etc), but now to have them sit on my desk
or harddrive seems a waste. I have some projects I’d let to set out for free
and possibly a for sale one, but these will have to wait. All this narrows my
response considerably.
I would have to say the One Page Dungeon
collections are by far the most useful things I have downloaded. At two
different cons I ran the same adventure about an ogre or a troll in a sewer
environment (I forget the name and am too lazy to look it up), one time setting
it in Lankhmar the other in Anth-Morpork. Short, sweet, easy to run and drop in
any setting, players at both games loved it. The one page format is just enough
for a GM, and both games ran radically different. The first group interacted
with the guardsmen and successfully hunted down the creature and saved the
children it had kidnapped, while the second rushed in and suffered a near TPK.
I’d call that a smashing success for a one
page free product.
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