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(...) I dont get it. I propose this idea, and i work on it, and then, once people start arguing about it, its dropped, and near exact duplicate is made, that only get support. i dont get it. Why, when i propose something, it gets ripped to shreds, (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) <snip> Sounds good! I was about to make a recommendation, but it looks like you already covered my thoughts by saying, "[Island] G.M.'s will create rules that govern their island. Such as dealing with combat, etc." I presume the "Over-Rules" (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Great, with all the psychos arguing in castle. its good that a game project has survived. I personly liked the idea of i.o.m but the game play was rubbish i would love to be a part of this game, as a player or a G.M . (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Dragon's Archipelago
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~~~after two kinda negative posts, here's something constructive: A Castle based role-play game. Concept heavily influenced by the recent space Starship (courtesy of mr. hendo's excellent explanation of the same). I'm trying to capture the strengths (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Continuing Brainstorming for Castle Game....
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For those just joining us, a number of people have been discussing ideas for a possible online Lego inspired RPG for Castle/Medieval Fantasy. I am just moving it here to .fun.gaming to keep things tidy... (...) I agree that simple is good. Perhaps I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | BrikWars Akira-revited at BricksWest
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I'd like to gauge interest in a game of BrikWars at BricksWest (that I'd like to host :) Last year's BrikWars gaming at BricksWest was incredible fun! I brought my setup to NWBrickCon, but didn't get a chance due to the busy schedule. The game can (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.gaming)
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Galactic Greetings! FYI, the Starship RPG has officially begun as of this past weekend. Currently, the game includes 26 Player Ships run by 12 different Players and 12 Active Sectors to explore run by 8 different Mediators. This game will continue (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | BrikWars Superheroes
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On January 18th, NELUG had its first BrikWars game featuring superheroes. While I'm still in the process of doing the write-up, I have created a Web site in support of this game. It has the basic storyline along with pics and bios of all the heroes (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
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| | shreveport brikwars game
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if any one who lives in shreveport wants to play brikwars email me at ejhow4@earthlink.net (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: My continued idea...dunno how this will fly.....
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(...) Sorry if my typing is a bit sloppy: i have a warm towell over one eye, cuts its got something in it, and i can barely see the keyboard. About the marketplace: that was my intent. All supplies would have to be gotten at the MM. nothing else (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) If it's all your idea, why not? For SS, we agreed that my position as GM would be an elected one from amongst the other participants. This way everyone is involved in the process. But there are different ways to run these things. Do you want a (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hey This is a great site and some great LEGO work! I really like the Thor's Hammer! It looks like we need to make room for another spacer. How long have you been building? out Tony Knaak (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I guess since im coming up with this thing i would be a mediator or as i call it, campaign master. I wasnt thinking of meshing peoples worlds, like in IOM, i was just refering to the IOM as something that intruiged me and should be an (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Starship is Go for Launch!!
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(...) Actually, I think it is an excellent question! :) Basically, the true "play" of the game is mostly by emails. Mediators send in-character emails to the players to reveal what is happening, and then the players respond with what their crew does (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: My continued idea...dunno how this will fly.....
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(...) It's been done without a "space" element to it - go read Raymond E. Feist's Magician series. Another of my favorites. :) Tanya (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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this is probably a dumb question, but exactly how does one play? also, is there a place where the 'play' can be observed? essentially.. so someone could see whether they would want to take the time and effort to play, or some other level of (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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<snip> (...) the easiest way around both problems is simply follow the IOM plan: a neutral, undefined large continent/island that is just beyond anybody's borders, with the "mist" that disables mechanical and magical workings. The problem, of (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Ineed. IOM was a good concept and an inspiration to games like Starship (as indicated on the Starship background page (URL) would be interesting to see what gaming possibilities there are in Castle. These sorts of games all have details to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Starship is Go for Launch!!
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Galactic Greetings! You may have seen brief comments in earlier posts about the development of the Starship RPG by-email game (which gives everyone a reason to build more MOCs of brick). As of this morning, the game is ready to take off. The main (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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| | Castle's Revenge !
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[Copied to .announce.moc, because that's what it is. Copied to .castle because of the influence of Anthony Sava's works as well as other roots in that theme. Copied to .build.mecha because I kept having 'visions of escaflowne' while building this. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Ex-lurker + Advertisement
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(...) Hey Andrew! Just wanted to welcome you in from delurking! (Although between the Spraw adventure and planning the full Starship RPG, messages from you seem all too familiar to me to think of you as a lurker.) :-] Keep up the good work! -Hendo (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I like your site. It's nice to see a Lego page with an actual backstory, there aren't enough of those. The Errant Kangaroo is an interesting looking ship, though personally I would have liked it more if it were built to a larger scale. Anyhow, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Ex-lurker + Advertisement
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Hi all I finally got approved to post (it sure took them long enough)! Hooray! Since I have three years or so of lurking to atone for, this post is gonna be a little long. Well, for the .space peeps, my website is called "Defenders of the Alliance (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Cool. My desires for gaming at BW are for stuff that takes at most an hour or two rather than long drawn out stuff.... since I have looked at the schedule and want to do a LOT of other stuff! But I am not flying out till Tuesday AM... If I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I, too, will bring my Pirate Game stuff, on the off chance that we find some time to play. I'll also have my minifig-scale version of Frag (actually, Frag Deadlands) to play, which is much easier to learn (and which plays faster as well) than (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Some Brikwars Questions
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(...) Erm...stone, I guess. (...) Yeah...like 'Expert Siege Weapon Operators'. (...) Thanks for the quick response Nathan Wells (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) My friend Eric has the castle. Mmmm...debris..... (...) One problem; the trebuchet's made out of wood! (...) Got milk? ;-D (...) Sweeeeet! (...) Thanks for the quick responce! Nathan Wells (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Some Brikwars Questions
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(...) a 2x4 brik weighs one blok ... which means it has an AV of 1d6. I think. Oh heck, I never remember these things. Somebody? Anybody? (...) Oh, silly! Anybody can fire it ... even somebody with a skill of, say 1. The real challenge is hitting (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Depends on what it's made of. (...) You'll have to up the skill on some of your troopers so they can use it. Or just lob rocks in random directions. but I'd suggest the first option. Adrian (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Some Brikwars Questions
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Hey Wargamers, I'm staging a TL2 battle against some of my friends in a few days and I have some questions: 1) What is the AV of a single Blok? 2) My trebuchet has a UR of 12! How the heck will any minifig be able to fire it? Thanks for the help! (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Starship-A new RPG
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Dan Mattia's e-mail server is down, so I (Sean) am posting this for him: Since around September, about 8 people have been making a LEGO RPG. It was originally intended to be just for us, but then as we made the rules and discussed topics, it got (...) (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events)
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| | My website and my Brikwars write-up...
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Well, I took the plunge, made my own lego themed website, and realized I had nothing for it. Well over the summer at GenCon2002 Others and me had a TL2(Medieval) Brikwars battle. These were the contestants; Evan Butzlaff(credited to getting me back (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming)
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| | New Scenario for BrikWars- to be played in DC 12/21/02
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I have written a new scenario for an upcoming WAMALUG BrikWars game. It incorporates the lesser known rules for Mercenaries and Matter-Energy transporters from the 2000 text rules in a Tech Level 6 Urban setting. The specifics for this scenario are (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: p3b4 optional rules mines/sensors longish
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(...) I wanted to make something other than a miniatures style game as we already have Brikwars, Lego Wars, Minifig death, Mechatron etc. etc. (...) I think you could do this even in an abstract game. You just need to find an abstract way of (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Lego RPG DraK'en.
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(...) Yeah, I loved the sci-fi games from Avalon Hill too, when I was 12. Now at 30, I still love them, with an occasional night of board games. My best friend and I used to develop variant rules too. Although he now has two kids, a wife, and a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Lego RPG DraK'en.
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Sorry, not to veer off-off-topic, but I had to de-lurk to say that I absolutely *loved* Amoeba Wars. I played a bunch of Avalon Hill games and that one was the best (although I think was one called "War in the Pacific" or something that I also (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hmm. Currently, based on what we've developed so far for Starship, I would say the only real use of the brick is how the game encourages (pretty much demands) that everyone build spaceships and other space related MOCs and share images of them (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Yes, that's a useful distinction to make. (...) I still think the continuing story line element is an important distinction. In fact, it's probably one of the most important distinctions. It's what keeps players coming back. If a game is just (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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Copied and followed up to .fun.gaming (...) I can understand this now that I have given more thought to the term. Such games have a relatively strict plot and to play through it, the player must solve a series of steps to reveal the story. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: p3b4 optional rules
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The rules as written definetly make a portable game. Many rule books just include sections with the optional rules. This keeps the game easy to play as beginners but also gives the advanced gamers something to sink their teeth into once the basic (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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