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Roleplaying Games
General Game Description:
MechWarrior is a role-playing game set in the fictional BattleTech universe in which players can assume the roles of BattleMech pilots or other individuals in the 31st century. The game has had three editions and many expansions and adventures, the first of which was published in 1985 by FASA.
To reduce confusion between WizKids' MechWarrior: Dark Age games and the MechWarrior roleplaying game, FanPro renamed the MechWarrior roleplaying game as Classic Battletech RPG upon reprinting it in 2007.
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Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Big Eyes, Small Mouth is a roleplaying game that was designed to simulate the action of anime and manga. It is frequently referred to by the acronym BESM. The title alludes to the common anime drawing style of characters with huge, expressive eyes.
BESM uses a point-based character creation system. Characters are evaluated based on three "Stats", against which all action checks are made. These are supplemented by Attributes, which give the characters unique abilities.
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Call of Cthulhu
The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation (from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature) that, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." There are three primary eras of the original (BRP) game: the 1920s, the setting of many of Lovecraft's stories; the 1890s Gaslight supplements, a blend of occult and Holmesian mystery and mostly set in England; and modern conspiracy (Cthulhu Now). Recent additions include 1000 AD (Cthulhu: Dark Ages), 23rd Century (Cthulhu Rising) and Roman times (Cthulhu Invictus). The protagonists may also travel to places that are not of this earth, represented in the Dreamlands (which can be accessed through dreams as well as being physically connected to the earth), as well as travel to other planets or the voids of space.
The players take the roles of ordinary people drawn into the realm of the mysterious: detectives, criminals, scholars, artists, war veterans, etc. Often, happenings begin innocently enough, until more and more of the workings behind the scenes are revealed. As the characters learn more of the true horrors of the world and the irrelevance of humanity, their sanity inevitably withers away (the game actually includes a mechanism for determining how damaged a character's sanity is at any given point). To access the tools they need to defeat the horrors – mystic knowledge and magic – the characters must be willing to give up some of their sanity.
Call of Cthulhu has a reputation as a game in which it is quite common for a player character to die in gruesome circumstances or end up in a mental institution.
For as long as they stay healthy (or at least functional), characters may be developed. Call of Cthulhu does not use levels, but is completely skill-based, with player characters getting better with their skills by succeeding at them.
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In A Wicked Age
An indie roleplaying game by D. Vincent Baker. A rules-light sword and sorcery game, no preparation required. Players take the roles of characters in a wicked age, when their best interests collide.
Hunted Heroes
No one said the life of an adventurer was an easy one. As you desperately scramble to find your way off this monster infested island while trying to elude the carnivorous savages that hunt you, (And whatever that thing is that’s hunting them!) you can’t help but wonder if you’d have been better off staying home workin’ on the family sheep farm. Now your only hope for survival is your cunning and ingenuity – You ain’t gonna hack, slash or fireball your way outta this one!
Hunted Heroes is a 6 person, 3rd level D&D adventure with an emphasis on strategy and out of the box tactics.
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General Game Description:
Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy, but may be more accurately described as "mythic fantasy," as the original developer specifically avoided drawing on J. R. R. Tolkien for inspiration.
The game uses ten-sided dice and a rules system similar to the Storytelling System to arbitrate the action, and, as with many other RPGs, requires little beyond the rulebooks themselves, dice, pencil, and paper. The ten-sided die storyteller system is one where the storyteller (or game master) is the person setting up a story and creating the adventure. The players create their characters using a pre-assigned number of points and begin to interact with the story that the storyteller presents them with, much like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, although the possible actions are limited only to the imagination of the players and the discretion of the storyteller. When a challenge presents itself to the characters, they roll a number of dice determined by the statistics of their character with a difficulty assigned by the storyteller. If they gain the required number of successes (7 or higher on any given die, 10's usually counting as double), they succeed in their efforts. If they do not gain the required number of successes, they fail. The storyteller describes the nature of the success or failure and the game and story continue on. Since the stories are player-created (by the storyteller, of course), there is no one way to "win" the game, except to achieve the goals set out in each individual story.
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Feng Shui is a martial arts-themed role-playing game, designed by Robin Laws, published first by Daedalus Entertainment and now by Atlas Games. The game shares its setting with the collectible card game Shadowfist. The system is simple, with most detail being in the game's combat system. Combat is made to flow quickly, moving from one action scene to another very quickly. It was inspired and based on Hong Kong style action movies. The characters begin at a high level of skill, as appropriate for protagonists in the source films.
The name Feng Shui refers to one of the central themes of the game: those who control places with powerful Feng Shui control the world. These people find that events go in their favour more often than would be explained by chance. The outcomes of all major historical events, such as wars, elections and natural disasters are dictated by who has the most powerful Feng Shui. Numerous groups vie for control of these sites, and thus control of the world.
Feng Shui crosses genre boundaries and includes martial arts, firearms, magic and advanced technology. One of the main features of the game is that the physical settings for scenes are meant to be vague, allowing the Game Master and the players room for creative improvisation and description of exciting stunts during combat.
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General Game Description:
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, commonly known as GURPS, is a role-playing game system designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming environment. It was created by Steve Jackson and is the first commercially successful attempt to create an all-encompassing, "universal" role-playing system that allows players to role-play in any environment they please while still using the same set of "core" rules.
GURPS was one of the first role-playing games in which characters were created by spending points to get attributes, skills, and advantages (such as the ability to cast magic spells). Additional points can be obtained by accepting lower-than-average attributes, disadvantages, and other limitations.
GURPS' emphasis on its "generic" aspect has proven to be a successful marketing tactic, as many game series have source engines which can be retrofitted to many styles. GURPS' approach to versatility includes using real world measurements wherever possible ("reality-checking" is an important part of any GURPS book). This allows players to fairly trivially convert things from the real world, other games or their imagination to GURPS statistics.
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In a Wicked Age
The characters in the game are broken down into main characters, supporting characters that are attached to main characters (granting mechanical benefits but having no wills of their own), and people that we honestly don't care about (who exist at the mercy of the narrator of the moment).
You play a main character. The other players play main characters. The GM plays any remaining main characters (you work out who the main characters will be using the situation generator). The GM plays his characters exactly like the players play their characters, and he has no special control over supporting characters and minor characters.
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Mutants & Masterminds'
Mutants & Masterminds' game mechanics are based on the OGL d20 System, designed by Wizards of the Coast, however it is a highly modified version of that basic system. The largest differences pertain to character creation, injury and damage, and hit points, as well as the addition of Hero Points and, obviously, super powers. There are also numerous other differences such as the elimination of character classes and attacks of opportunity, a modified Skill list, a very different Feat selection, and the fact that any equipment possessed is considered a part of the character and purchased in a manner similar to powers.
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Prime Time Adventures
If you enjoy great TV, then you'll love Primetime Adventures, the game that lets you create and play the TV show you always wanted to see, complete with meaningful characters and gripping drama. You and the other players will create the show and its cast, then play out actual episodes of the series, exploring the personal struggles of the main characters and cooperatively laying out the kind of story television executives dream of.
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Savage Worlds Deadlands Reloaded: House Call
Welcome to the Weird West. Your posse has arrived in a town that has recently lost its sheriff and needs to have the hellish screams that came from the doctor's house on the hill investigated. Pre-generated characters will be provided but keen players wishing to bring their own Novice-ranked Deadlands Reloaded characters are welcome to do so.
Savage Worlds: Solomon Kane Missing in Lincoln
A young priest in the town of Lincolnshire has disappeared and his mother is not satisfied with the answers that she is getting from the church and the constabulary. Pre-generated characters will be provided but keen players wishing to bring their own Novice-ranked Solomon Kane characters are welcome to do so.
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Serenity: A Hard Day’s Flight
You may have no love for the Alliance. You do however have a fondness for finding jobs with decent pay and a powerful need to eat sometime this month. Seems ever since that gorram “Miranda” broadcast, its gettin’ harder to find “Perfectly Legitimate” work anymore. Alliance keeps tightnin’ their grip, won’t be any room fer folk like you to move about at all. So when word comes along of a good payin’ job, albeit a dangerous one, you surely can’t afford to turn it down. No matter how hard times get, your mission statement remains true – Get a ship, Find a crew, Keep flyin’.
A Hard Days Flight is a cleverly titled, 6-8 person adventure set in the Firefly/Serenity verse. The idea is simple – Do the job, get paid. Actually doin’ the job and gettin’ paid however, may not be so simple.
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Shadowrun: Nanotech Raid
A small Shiawase research facility has been manufacturing all sorts of new pharmaceuticals that have raised the eyebrows of the medical community. They have garnered enough attention that a curious Mr. Johnson wants their latest project to be stolen for his own personal advancement. The question is: what has this company been dabbling in, aside from pharmaceuticals?
Shadowrun: Game Breaker
The Vory have lost something that could tip the scales of power in the underworld if they can get their hands back onto it: a Thunderstruck Gauss Cannon. The military assault cannon disappeared into the back alleys of Seattle and has changed hands frequently as various parties vie for the control of the tank-killer. Most recently, the weapon was seen in the hands of a smuggler who was bound for New York. He never made it, vanishing into the wilds of the Sioux Nation. The runners are hired to retrieve the weapon at any cost, while other parties compete for the same goal.
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Silver Age Sentinels
Silver Age Sentinels is a superhero role-playing game (RPG) published in 2002 by Guardians of Order, creators of Big Eyes, Small Mouth, an anime-themed RPG.
Silver Age Sentinels features an original game world inspired by classic "four-color" DC and Marvel comic book series, updated to modern political and moral sensibilities. The Empire City Universe (referred to after its central location, an alternative version of New York City) has a distinctive history.
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Spirit of the Century
The deadly Doctor Methuselah seeks to unravel time itself with his solution to the Eternity Equation… Gorilla Khan stalks darkest Africa from conquered Atlantis… Mad scientists, strange sorcerors, and power-hungry dictators all seek to undo the fate of humanity. It’s the final century of the second millennium – and you are our last hope!
Spirit of the Century is a complete, stand-alone pulp role-playing game based on the award-winning Fate system (Indie RPG Awards include: Best Free Game of 2003, Best Support, and Andy’s Choice). Spirit features a heavily revised, revisited, and reimagined vision of Fate. Character creation can be done as quickly as a few minutes, or expand to take up an evening; adventure design is a snap with three methods for creating relevant, flavorful, player-focused stories at a moment’s notice. Spirit’s mission is to deliver an evening of fun, a “pick-up” game that requires little preparation, but provides hours of entertainment.
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The Burning Wheel
The Burning Wheel is a fantasy role-playing game independently written and published by Luke Crane. The game uses a dice pool mechanic (using only standard six sided dice) for resolution, and a system of prior-experience for character generation which tracks the development of the new character from birth up to the point they begin adventuring.
Unlike many other RPGs — but explicitly like earlier games — the Burning Wheel does not include a dedicated setting, beyond the setting implied by the rules and mechanics and the life-paths used in character generation, which implies a fantasy world by default, though it can be easily modified for other settings.
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General Game Description:
Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop.
The Traveller rules help construct a far future society. Characters are expected to travel between star systems, engage in battle on the ground and in space, and involve themselves in interstellar economics. Traveller characters are defined less by the need to increase native skill and ability and more by achieving positional advancement in the form of wealth, gadgets, titles and political power. While any version of the game system could be used in many science fiction settings, most published supplements have dealt in some way with the Third Imperium, also sometimes referred to as the Official Traveller Universe, or "OTU".
The Third Imperium is in the distant future—over three thousand years removed from our own time. The primary galactic society in Traveller is the Third Imperium, a vast, human-dominated feudalistic union of over eleven thousand worlds currently (as described in GURPS Traveller) ruled by its 43rd emperor, Strephon Aella Alkhalikoi. The Imperium is the most powerful interstellar polity, but it is surrounded on all sides by potentially hostile neighbors. Local nobility operate largely free from oversight, restricted by convention, feudal obligations, and the fear of being caught.
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Usagi Yojimbo
The Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game is an American role-playing game based on Stan Sakai's Eisner-award winning comic-book series Usagi Yojimbo. The game is written by Jason Holmgren and Pieter van Hiel, published by Sanguine Productions in 2005.
The game is set in a fantasy version of Japan in the Edo period (beginning of the 17th century) and uses a heavily modified variant of the systems used in Sanguine Productions' other role-playing games; Ironclaw, Jadeclaw, and Albedo: Platinum Catalyst.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy is a role-play game set in the same dark, gothic universe as the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniatures game. In this role-play game the players take on the role of an Inquisitors retinue and seek out internal corruption, alien threats, and demonic incursions to save the Empire in the name of the God-Emperor.
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General Game Description:
The World of Darkness resembles the contemporary world, but darker, more devious, more conspiratorial. Humanity is losing hope as it is secretly preyed upon and controlled by supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves and wraiths. One facet that sets the World of Darkness apart from most other horror fiction is that these creatures are not solitary predators to be hunted down and destroyed, but they are numerous and intelligent; enough so to form secret societies, develop various factions and allegiances, and use humans as pawns in power struggles and murderous games often lasting centuries or millennia.
Interlocking conspiracies, some mirroring those existing in our own world, some unique, can be found throughout the setting. Cabals of powerful mages, coteries of cunning vampires, and other, stranger powers vie within their own cultures and with each other for control of the world. The dichotomy between rich and poor, influential and weak, powerful and powerless, is much more pronounced than in our world. Decadence is common and corruption is everywhere. This dark reflection is seen everywhere: gargoyles and gothic construction influence architecture, while the leather look and punk atmosphere crowd the streets. Everything is as gloomy in the WoD as the most pessimistic tabloid headlines present it.
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