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Baulderstone said:
Something about Jack Vance's pacing really fits well with how I like my RPG pacing. It is somehow meandering and loose, yet eventful and fast at the same time.
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Haven't read Lyonesse, but some of Cugel's travels, encountering all those different villages with their own individual cultures, just begs to be used in a points-of-light campaign. I love the idea of each settlement having its own bizarre traditions to confound and amuse players.
 
Totally love the original series of Battlestar Galactica, although it went to crap when they showed up on earth with different crew members, invisible vipers, and flying motorcycles. But yeah the earlier series was great, and like every kid I wanted to be a cool Colonial Warrior like Starbuck and Apollo
 
Dynamite Entertainment is currently publishing a comic book mini-series, where the '70s Battlestar Galactica encounters the '00s BSG. Appropriately enough, it's titled Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica. In it, Starbuck shags Starbuck...
 
Dumarest said:
That's what makes it so good. No compulsion to try to be more than it is, no mistaking gore and bleakness for maturity.
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I tried watching the new BSG. I can't say I hated it, but I bounced off it after about three episodes. I didn't feel any real connection to the characters.

When Caprica aired, I had a slow night, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Maybe it would get me interested. Over the course of the season, I realized why these shows weren't working for me. There is no humor to them at all. I don't just mean jokes and pratfalls, but the emotion of humor just doesn't exist in this universe. It was less obvious to me when I was watching BSG as genuinely grim things were happening. However, Caprica had the exact same grim, humorless tone in world where people were largely just going about normal life.

I think that humor is an important ingredient in drama. Look at other successful dark shows of this century. Breaking Bad and The Wire are both heavy shows, but they also have a lot of moments that are hilarious whether the characters are in on the joke or the butt of it. Humor is frequently a coping mechanism, so it makes sense in drama.

Good art and entertainment also relies on emotional contrast. If a show is just hitting you with serious seriousness all the time, you capacity to take it seriously is worn down. Adding in lighter emotional tones makes the dark moments hit harder when you return to them. It also helps with relating to characters. Characters with a sense of humor about their problems are more sympathetic.

I was really excited when I heard that Amazon was going to be streaming an anthology show based on the short stories of Philip K. Dick. Then I heard that Ronald D. Moore, the creator of the new BSG was making it. As much as the questions on the nature of reality and what it means to be human, humor is an essential part of Dick's work, and I couldn't think or a person less likely to get that right than Ronald D. Moore.

I've given the show a shot and watched a couple of episodes, but yeah, he completely fucked it up.

Botched tone aside, I would have made this a half hour anthology show, like The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The biggest challenge people have had adapting PKD is that they are often translating short, snappy stories into two hour movies. A half hour format would have been a chance to actually adapt his short stories without needing to drag out the pacing. An hour is better than a full-length movie, but the stretch marks were visble in both the episodes I watched.

It also didn't help that the first episode was based on a story the ended with complete ambiguity about what was actually real. The show needed to add a final scene to remove any ambiguity, I guess because who wants ambiguity about reality in a PKD story?

TLDR: Moore is an over-serious hack.
 
dragoner said:
Mmm ... pulpy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey

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I have the DVD set. To this day my dream is to own a Grumman goose. Only goose I'd like sitting near my dock.
 
I honestly never remember seeing that on TV and I can remember 80s shows that were only on for a handful of episodes, like Streethawk.
 
Bunch said:
I have the DVD set. To this day my dream is to own a Grumman goose. Only goose I'd like sitting near my dock.
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I'd like a nice model to put on my desk or cabinet at work. I also have the DVD of the series. Pretty good.
 
Endless Flight said:
I honestly never remember seeing that on TV and I can remember 80s shows that were only on for a handful of episodes, like Streethawk.
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I was living in Kuwait at the time, and it never made it over there. We did get Voyagers! though.

 
Bunch said:
I have the DVD set. To this day my dream is to own a Grumman goose. Only goose I'd like sitting near my dock.
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Have you looked at the Gweduck? http://www.gweduck.com/index.html This is the airplane in my current Discord game, with 4 people from 2017 California somehow flying into a world of floating islands, giant riding birds, and monsters.
 
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Add ons (some already taken)
Conan (Mythras)
Lankhmar (Mythras)
Mass Effect (Genesys)
Eberron (Genesys)
Jade Empire (Genesys)
Eternal Champion and subsets (Mythras)
Birthright (mmm not sure)
The Expanse (M-Space/Mythras)
The Snow Spider series
The Book Of Isle series
 
Bunch said:
That's cool and amazing since they are located about a mile from me.
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It's actually not a copy of the Goose, it's a completely new plane inspired by the Goose, created from the ground (or water as may be) up - but boy it has that Goose grace and beauty! The body is all composite, so none of the metal-in-salt-water electrolitic corrosion problems, and the turboprops are much better than the old radials! If they are that close I wonder that you haven't seen them flying!
 
clash bowley said:
It's actually not a copy of the Goose, it's a completely new plane inspired by the Goose, created from the ground (or water as may be) up - but boy it has that Goose grace and beauty! The body is all composite, so none of the metal-in-salt-water electrolitic corrosion problems, and the turboprops are much better than the old radials! If they are that close I wonder that you haven't seen them flying!
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Upon further reading it looks like their mailbox is at the Renton airport but the facility is in Oregon.
 
I still think the Masters of the Universe could be made into an amazing game. Maybe the new live-action movie could open up the license for somebody to pick up. I'm dreaming, of course, as I really doubt that would happen. I was never really a fan of the cartoons, but I loved the comics that came with the figures and the art on the packaging was outstanding!

I got Castle Greyskull for Christmas a kid and that box packaging was so good. Who wouldn't want to play a character in that universe?

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I'd like to see a proper BPRD / Hellboy / Mignola-verse RPG.

Also, Captain Future. This should be done by Cubicle 7 and use their Vortex system.

I think there should be a Pellucidar sourcebook for the highly underappreciated Terra Incognita RPG from Grey Ghost Games.

Oh, and a Tarzan RPG, which would include Pellucidar stuff.
 
3rik said:
I'd like to see a proper BPRD / Hellboy / Mignola-verse RPG.

Also, Captain Future. This should be done by Cubicle 7 and use their Vortex system.

I think there should be a Pellucidar sourcebook for the highly underappreciated Terra Incognita RPG from Grey Ghost Games.

Oh, and a Tarzan RPG, which would include Pellucidar stuff.
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Tell me about this Terra Incognita game, please.
 
Endless Flight said:
I still think the Masters of the Universe could be made into an amazing game. Maybe the new live-action movie could open up the license for somebody to pick up. I'm dreaming, of course, as I really doubt that would happen. I was never really a fan of the cartoons, but I loved the comics that came with the figures and the art on the packaging was outstanding!

I got Castle Greyskull for Christmas a kid and that box packaging was so good. Who wouldn't want to play a character in that universe?

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Earl Norem's art is fantastic. I've been collecting it for a while now. And I really like the MOTU mythos as presented in the original comics - Teela was a mysterious goddess from the Plains Amazons who rode a unicorn, Skeletor was the last surviving member of an extradimensional race of invaders, and there was a whole thing going on with Zodac. Some of it survived into the series bible for the cartoon, which is a fascinating read, but it got bowdlerized and simplified by the time it hit the air.

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