Old School Goodness to Share

[rredmond]

Up the irons! Where’s Rob, this is forte methinks.

[OGRE MAGE]

Up the Irons, indeed!

\m/ \m/

[Grognardsw]

If anyone wants to get an old-school Paranoia game going, I’d definitely be in.

I don’t know the system and am full up as GM, but I would play also.

I think this NEW IRON MAIDEN ALBUM will be appreciated here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4bBIsMKf6EmHRlhBwtC33N (you will need a free spotify account to play it)

[AsenRG]

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"Same way you grow a duck in a bottle: put it there, feed it through the opening" is fine.
"Because I'm the GM" would get me voting with my feet faster than I can run, though. Obviously I don't understand games !

[rredmond]

Different kinda old school
https://www.handitv.com/stories/only-a- ... ome-poster

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[tibbius]

Check this out.

Often discussed, rarely played.



I'd like to play or run this someday.

I love Paranoia! It is not for everyone, however. You have to be willing to accept the zany, and be ok with PvP potentially. And I've played with GMs that didn't allow the game to hit it's full potential. If everyone gets some combination of secret society/ goal/ mutation it makes it much more entertaining as a player. If you don't get something, it becomes a little more straightforward. Granted, I was a bit late to that game, so maybe Friend Computer was punishing me for my tardiness (or the GM just forgot).

If anyone wants to get an old-school Paranoia game going, I’d definitely be in.

It’s tough to GM well, though. There’s a fine line between madcap stooges hilarity and straight game on one side and instant pvp tpk on the other. Players need to be into the potential pvp aspect, but not too into it—or at least, the GM needs to be able to dissuade certain types of players from shooting each other right away. Even accusations that other characters are Pinko Commie Traitors are something that should be built up to and happen after some time. From the little experience I’ve had playing Paranoia, there’s more risk that a player is over enthusiastic than that they don’t get into the spirit of things enough. But the session I’m thinking of was the recent updated new edition of Paranoia, which might be a better designed game but isn’t quite as awesomely zany, IMO.

Anyway, who wants to run Paranoia?

(One of these days, I’m going to run that Tomb of Horrors / Paranoia mashup I keep talking about. But no time for it just yet, alas.)

[Grognardsw]

That is creative and intriguing Tibbius, though my heart is more in the science fiction milieu for Paranoia. On the horror side I lean toward Lovecraftian flavors.

[tibbius]

That is creative and intriguing Tibbius, though my heart is more in the science fiction milieu for Paranoia. On the horror side I lean toward Lovecraftian flavors.

"Aww."

[Grognardsw]

Everything becomes old school, at least until the remake.

[Starbeard]

Actors on set for Bakshi's Lord of the Rings.

[Grognardsw]

Speaking of Bakshi, I watched his and Frazetta’s Fire and Ice again over the holiday. I like it, even if most critics didn’t. The screenplay was written by Marvel’s Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. I hadn’t realized the background painter was James Gurney, of Dinotopia fame.



There is a new rotoscope animated movie that recently came out, The Spine of Night, that’s described as a Heavy Metal throwback fantasy gorefest. I haven’t seen it yet.

[Starbeard]

I haven't seen Spine of Night yet either, but it's on my list. I'm a longtime fan of Fire & Ice.

[tibbius]

https://www.livescience.com/rare-leathe ... ina-burial <- it seems that maybe thousands of years ago, adventurers went out from their homelands into foreign legions, and came back wealthier with exotic equipment. (The thousands of years made it seem pretty "old school" to me.)

[Scott308]

That's pretty cool.

[Grognardsw]

Space Gamer, Jan. 1987

[ravenn4544]

Was poking around on ebay and saw that my 1ed Deities and Demigods edition (the one Cthulhu) was going for about 300 bucks or so. I found this site that has estimated values for the rarest of items. The original D&D wood grained boxed set (1 ed) is the highest I saw at about $10,000. whew. Not that anyone would ever sell it .

A $3,000 DMG is interesting. It's an AD&D version where they accidently bound 18 or so pages of the Monster Manual within in. No one would ever sell that either!

https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/rares.html

[Zhym]

Somehow I doubt my very beat up Deities & Demigods would get $300. Not that I’d sell it, either.

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[gurusql]

Yours is in better shape than mine

[Rex]

Mine has so much writing and scribbles in it it is probably worthless.

[rredmond]

Was poking around on ebay and saw that my 1ed Deities and Demigods edition (the one Cthulhu) was going for about 300 bucks or so.

Apparently there are two prints of the first DDG, the first one goes for insane money. The second one, also with Cthulhu/Melinibonean mythos, which I have, does not

But the Stranger Things resurgence has been interesting in recent years, and sometimes things on eBay go for ridiculously insane money just because!