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    ZARDOZ

    Hey, my gaming/internet name comes from this movie! Well, sort of- It came more from a running joke named after this movie. Basically for years at our gaming table any time a game went completely off the rails from whatever the DM had originally intended, the campaign was said to have “gone...
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    [Check my work] 'OpenQuest Modern'

    Actually, nevermind- just picked up River of Heaven refreshed which answered most of my other questions. Also picked up the OQ Companion because the One Magic System sounds perfect for what I'm trying to cobble together.
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    [Check my work] 'OpenQuest Modern'

    Oh hey, glad to see you here! Longtime fan of your work. You have a tendency to not overcomplicate things best left simple, which I really appreciate. 1. Well, on one hand I'm sorry to hear The Company isn't available anymore but I'm glad that you're working on a 2nd edition. Will this...
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    [Check my work] 'OpenQuest Modern'

    Glad to know it's still available, but I guess all I needed from it was to check the character sheet which someone has most awesomely provided below! 1. Yeah, came across Sigil & Shadow while looking for OpenQuest options. It looks like a good game in its own right, but I think it's too...
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    [Check my work] 'OpenQuest Modern'

    I actually went looking for that but couldn’t find it for sale anymore. Mostly I just wanted to peek at the character sheet but couldn’t even find one of those floating around either.
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    [Check my work] 'OpenQuest Modern'

    Alright, so I'm trying to cobble together a modern day occult/demon/vampire-slaying type game using the OpenQuest system. To do this I'm basically mashing Age of Shadow and River of Heaven together, with "innate magic" from AoS becoming "psychic powers" in the modern day version. There's still...
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    I appreciate this place

    There should be one of those "follow the path of RPGPub" bridge puzzles like in Indiana Jones or Baldurs Gate: After much debating the players will eventually try something and make it across the bridge! At the end is a plaque that reads: Actually we just scrawled a bunch of random letters...
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    New Member Introductions

    I flippin' *LOVE* Jack Vance. Like, it's almost kind of tragic that he's mostly just become a "inspired a lot of early D&D-isms" footnote because his work was so much more than that. In particular I like the dreamlike sense of wonder of The Dying Earth and the humorously clever dialogue of The...
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    OpenQuest, 3rd edition

    So I've been looking around for a lighter alternative to Mythras, and have been kind of overwhelmed by the sheer number of BRP-adjacent derivatives out there. I was *just* thinking that I had finally narrowed down what I was looking for to OQ3... But the "all characters can cast spells" is a...
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    A thread that isn't actually about what you hoped it would be about when you skimmed the title and ignored all the words except the object

    So back in the day I was in a college chemistry class. The professor was an old really smart/likable guy, just very forgetful and absent minded. On the second day of class he was showing us/reviewing how to calculate the atomic weight of calcium carbonate or somesuch. “Wait! I can solve this...
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    Savage Worlds - Getting Started

    I'm just recently coming down from a three/four year Savage Worlds streak where SW was the only game system I would run anything in for a while. (It's a great system and I had a lot of fun with it, I'm just ready to go back to OSR now.) I do remember for my first few months of GMing I...
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    What is Political and Mod Direction

    I've heard nothing but awesome things about Prey but we just can't afford yet another streaming service right now so I'll just have to miss out I guess.
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    What is Political and Mod Direction

    Oh, right, his name was Remo. Though "Reno Williams" isn't such a bad name in that <NAME OF CITY OR STATE> + <LAST NAME> pulp hero format either I guess :hehe: Anyway, only reason he came to mind earlier was because he was sort of like cross between a hardboiled detective and a ninja.
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    What is Political and Mod Direction

    That has since devolved/ascended (pick one) into Ninjology. Speaking of which, anyone remember Reno Williams?
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    What is Political and Mod Direction

    I have a really hard time getting into a show if there isn't some kind of supernatural or otherworldly mind-bending element involved (better if there's a blurry line rather than clear cut magic though.) The more David Lynch-ian a show is, the more I'll probably love it. I thought Twin Peaks...
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