Exile/Avernum tabletop RPG?
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 01:13
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I've been wondering... has anyone tried writing up something like this? There've been a couple very vague ideas spinning around in my head but I'd like to know if there've been any previous efforts. Posts: 19 | Registered: Wednesday, June 28 2006 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 01:28
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Been done with many variations. -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Shake Before Using
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 02:32
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I don't think any came close to satisfactory completion, though. Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 07:20
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I think Exile started as a tabletop game which Mr. Vogel was running. He then turned it into a CRPG. I don't know if he would release it as a roleplaying game which would be interesting. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 18:24
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With the advent of d20 systems since Jeff originally started Exile I guess that outside of us there wouldn't be the demand for a tabletop RPG. Most people don't want to invest their energy in learning a new system anymore. It was different in the 80's when there were several different systems on the market: D&D, GURPS, d100s, diceless gaming, etc. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 23:21
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quote:- I guess it might help if I mentioned that the ideas I've got don't resemble any of those systems at all... well, maybe "diceless" but that's a huge category right there. :) Instead, I'm thinking more of a narrative-oriented system (i.e., mechanics that help you develop your character's significance in the story instead of simulating their abilities in an imaginary world) based on the very first thing you're told in Exile: you've been convicted of not fitting in. And now you're stuck in what is still a very untamed world, populated by everyone that the old world considered a little too "odd" to keep around, trying to find or build or forcibly carve out a place (temporal and spiritual) you can call your own. Would you re-create your life anew? Would you honour the memory of what you had achieved before and continue spreading your misunderstood ways, or do it out of spite for people you'll never see again? ...and that's about all I've got. I'm not sure what kind of rules would help drive this kind of play, or even what the archetypal story that results shoudl look like. Maybe I'll give it some more thought later, when my mind isn't divided on a few IRL duties I've really got to stop slacking on... [ Tuesday, July 18, 2006 23:24: Message edited by: Vaecrius ] Posts: 19 | Registered: Wednesday, June 28 2006 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 23:22
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Ugh. Couldn't tell the difference between quote and edit. [ Tuesday, July 18, 2006 23:23: Message edited by: Vaecrius ] Posts: 19 | Registered: Wednesday, June 28 2006 07:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, July 19 2006 08:34
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This idea sounds like it might work in a forum-based free style RP. If you really want to see this happen, you could go to one of the forums with RP section, like Polaris (www.polarisboard.net) and check if there is interest there. (Although you'd need much better defined story and characters than just saying "interact with the Exile world".) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, July 19 2006 11:15
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Me and a couple of my Spiderweb friends tried to have a sort of Exile D&D match but it didn't work too well. :-P -------------------- And everybody say....Yatta! Posts: 1287 | Registered: Thursday, August 14 2003 07:00 |