I am currently re-editing and laying out Planets of Peril, which is from 2012. I bet not many have heard of that one. New cover:
All the Gamelords Traveller stuff is on the Apocrypha III CD-Rom.
I finally got my hands on Lords of Creation a couple years ago. Only glanced at the game system, but I always LIKED the idea it seemed to represent; a mishmash of various time and places.
Well stating up all the dieties in the early 80s wasn't exactly rare. I mean that's what Gods,Demigods and Heroes did and Dieties and Demigods. It you like stated up Dieties check out Fantasy Wargaming and see Jesus and Satan!I'm not sure if this is a forgotten game so much as a "nobody ever heard of it" game but I'll toss out...
Lords of Creation is one of those product-of-the-times games that is kind of awesome and terrible at the same time. It was written by Tom Moldvay (yes, that one) sometime back in the early 80's and had a really wonky game system that was really ahead of its time in scope and ideas, but just missed the mark in so many heartbreaking ways in execution. I guess you could think of it as a proto-RIFTS nearly a decade before there was RIFTS, if RIFTS didn't have a default setting.
But damn, that game had the most absolute badass bestiary of any RPG game ever made. I mean, you not only had the usual stuff like goblins, cyborgs, gangsters, and vampires... You had every single old world god from every historical mythology ever all stated up complete with XP values. The amount of work and effort that went into the bestiary of this game truly boggles the mind and I've never seen one that ambitious since. We could probably make a whole separate thread about the sheer scope and scale of every monster stated out in Lords of Creation and keep ourselves entertained for years.
It's one of those games I'm really glad I hunted down a copy of, not to play, but just because it's such a thought provoking read. If the mechanics had just not been so kludgy or full of 80's-isms, or if the fluff just had some kind of clear goal or purpose, I can almost imagine a parallel world where LoC went on to become one of the industry big contenders by 3rd edition or so.
I originally made notes of everything I could find for my own benefit, but it did make it easy to just copy and paste into the thread
You’re correct, I missed the continuation pages in my listing (the index I originally copied the page numbers from used a plus sign for the continuation page, which seems to have been dropped when I made my version). In the case of part two it continues on page 14. I’ve edited the list to reflect that.
I'm not sure if this is a forgotten game so much as a "nobody ever heard of it" game but I'll toss out...
Lords of Creation is one of those product-of-the-times games that is kind of awesome and terrible at the same time. It was written by Tom Moldvay (yes, that one) sometime back in the early 80's and had a really wonky game system that was really ahead of its time in scope and ideas, but just missed the mark in so many heartbreaking ways in execution. I guess you could think of it as a proto-RIFTS nearly a decade before there was RIFTS, if RIFTS didn't have a default setting.
But damn, that game had the most absolute badass bestiary of any RPG game ever made. I mean, you not only had the usual stuff like goblins, cyborgs, gangsters, and vampires... You had every single old world god from every historical mythology ever all stated up complete with XP values. The amount of work and effort that went into the bestiary of this game truly boggles the mind and I've never seen one that ambitious since. We could probably make a whole separate thread about the sheer scope and scale of every monster stated out in Lords of Creation and keep ourselves entertained for years.
It's one of those games I'm really glad I hunted down a copy of, not to play, but just because it's such a thought provoking read. If the mechanics had just not been so kludgy or full of 80's-isms, or if the fluff just had some kind of clear goal or purpose, I can almost imagine a parallel world where LoC went on to become one of the industry big contenders by 3rd edition or so.
It was, When your character reached a high enough level, they became a Game Master and created whole new universes to torment PCs in.
Sounds great! I bought Lords of Creation and some of the adventures when it came out, but like others in the thread never quite figured out what to do with it and eventually gave it away. I’d not thought of it in decades before these posts.
It's been ages since I looked at Lords of Creation, but wasn't there some core organization the PCs were assumed to be members of, with a mission statement to hold off some other faction and/or stop incursions of weirdness?
Oh, wow, I never knew any of this was out there.
Hold up. There's a Omegakron soundtrack!? Tell me it's 80's-style synth because nothing else would really fit that game
I don’t think so, but maybe someone else who remembers the game better will chime in?
Not only did I play this, but I was in Justin's group when he was playtesting the wildlife suppliment. My one claim to role-playing fame is that my character from that is a major part of the Pax Draconis novel (not that you can find *that* anywhere).
...Why isn't this on DriveThru
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I don't think it's in PDF format?...Why isn't this on DriveThru
Justin ended the project at about the same time Drive Thru RPG was getting started. Like the last thing published was the novel in 2006. Looks like Amazon has the line available, though....Why isn't this on DriveThru
I had (actually I think still have) Neverworld from this installment. Practically never even opened the box...
Did you forget to
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I have that. Maybe next time.
Lords of Creation was a very good concept attached to a not-very-good game. I mentioned it in passing in my review of Powers & Perils, but since I don't have access to the books any longer (for over two decades!) I can't give any more details than "it was simultaneously too fiddly and yet not fiddly enough".
