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paz

RPG Showcase

I wanted a place to show off RPGs and other gaming stuff that people might not be aware of; stuff that I have and am itching to play, or just stuff I've found on the web that looks intriguing. Therefore I started this thread! I'll limit it to one item per post; feel free to add your own. I'll start with...

Mouse Guard RPG

A book that I bought very recently, after it won the 2008 Origins Award for best RPG (beating D&D 4E in the process) and was nominated for the 2009 Diana Jones award, as well as three ENnie Awards. It is based in the setting of the Mouse Guard comics, of which I have read the first (very impressive) volume. The PCs are guard mice, who help other mice in danger, and ward off dangerous foes like snakes, and weasels. The system is a streamlined version of the Burning Wheel system, which apparently suits this style of game very well.

The book itself is simply gorgeous. It's full-colour throughout, with copious amounts of art from the comic book artist himself, and it must be the first RPG I've bought which has a dust jacket! I haven't had much chance to read through it, but I'm very impressed with what I've read so far, so will probably want to run it at some point.
paz

Eclipse Phase

I only heard of this one yesterday, as apparently it's a new release at Gen Con. It's described as 'a pen & paper roleplaying game of post-apocalyptic transhuman conspiracy and horror.' It has some strange things in it, such as the ability to switch from one body to another at will, and being able to back up your character's mind. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
paz

Gaming Paper

A gaming accessory - basically a huge roll of durable inch-squared paper. If I didn't already have my Tact-Tiles, I'd be very tempted to get some of this.
paz

Pathfinder RPG

For those of us who are pretty happy with D&D 3.5E, and weren't too enthused over the changes introduced in 4E, this is the next generation. Published by Paizo, it keeps the same basics as 3.5E, but improves on or resolves a lot of the issues that got on people's nerves, such as the underpowered nature of fighters at higher levels, etc. The core rulebook is 576 pages, and weighs over 2kg. It was released today at Gen Con, and apparently has been the hit of the show so far. A PDF version of the rules is available for the ridiculously low price of $9.99, and the PRD (Pathfinder RPG Reference Document) is already up. If I ever run another adventure path campaign, I'll be using this.
(Well I had to include it some time...)
paz

A Penny For My Thoughts

A very strange-looking RPG. Basically a GM-less game of memory loss (and shared memory reconstruction). Looks like it would be good for a one-off.
dedindahed

Boardgamegeek has launched a sister site, featuring RPG's rather than board games,

http://rpg.geekdo.com/

product listings, reviews, player aids etc. etc.
HDimagination

Ok, this seems like a good idea.

If 3rd edition is an old car, then Pathfinder is a new paint job, go faster stripes and lots of high tech stuff added to the engine to make it go faster. Trailblazer (yeah, nice original name guys) is the same car, stripped down, cleaned and re-assembled by a team of talented mechanics. It has the same aims as Pathfinder, but offers a slightly different approach to fixing them, one that I find far more interesting.
HDimagination

This one is going to be controversial on a level with 4e and it’s already causing a storm on RPG.net:

Warhamer Fantasy Roleplay, by Fantasy Flight Games. People are calling it a 3rd Edition, but I don’t really agree, after all, if it uses a completely different system, is it a new edition?
metagaia

paz wrote:
Pathfinder RPG

For those of us who are pretty happy with D&D 3.5E, and weren't too enthused over the changes introduced in 4E, this is the next generation. Published by Paizo, it keeps the same basics as 3.5E, but improves on or resolves a lot of the issues that got on people's nerves, such as the underpowered nature of fighters at higher levels, etc. The core rulebook is 576 pages, and weighs over 2kg. It was released today at Gen Con, and apparently has been the hit of the show so far. A PDF version of the rules is available for the ridiculously low price of $9.99, and the PRD (Pathfinder RPG Reference Document) is already up. If I ever run another adventure path campaign, I'll be using this.
(Well I had to include it some time...)

Sooo...possibly off-topic, but what makes Pathfinder RPG so much better?  The people on the OOTS forums seem universally opposed to it.  Confused
paz

metagaia wrote:
Sooo...possibly off-topic, but what makes Pathfinder RPG so much better?  The people on the OOTS forums seem universally opposed to it.  Confused

The OOTS forum, that bastion of objectivity and free speech? Surely not! Cool

You're probably best off reading some of the early reviews from people who have at least seen the final version, e.g. here and here.
Gileh

HDimagination wrote:

Warhamer Fantasy Roleplay, by Fantasy Flight Games. People are calling it a 3rd Edition, but I don’t really agree, after all, if it uses a completely different system, is it a new edition?


Quote:
“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.”


Okay well in terms of a textbook what would we call an edition- we'd call it the same text but with bits of newly-discovered relevance added in and redundant information or mistakes taken out.

If the same author was to publish a new book on a similar subject matter with a different approach we'd call it a different book. Even if he reprinted a paper or chapter virtually verbatim from the old book.

So has the latest (FFG) got anything in common aside from the setting with the previous (Black Libraries) version, which was an update of the first (1986, GW) release of the game (which was reprinted with some changes by Hogshead games in 1995).

It may be entirely different from the first edition and still be just another edition of the same game,  but if it is entirely different from the second edition I can only classify it as a new RPG game set in the Warhammer World.

Numbered editions have a currency in the vocabulary of RPG players, so it is easy to see how it would be applied to situations like this with little thought for accuracy or relevance. Rather than 'WFRP 3rd Ed' should it be called 'New WFRP', 'WFRP III', 'WFRP II'?
Gileh

Anybody heard any buzz/reviews about this:

http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/c/cubicle7/doctorWho/v5748btpy88wv

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