Keith the Thief wrote:Maybe before I pass judgment though, I should buy the 3E basic set and see how I like it.
ExTSR wrote:Better not; you will contract a terminal disease and the bad karma will follow you for more than 3000 years.
ExTSR wrote:Worse; you will be [ Image ] visited by the Penguins of Destiny.[ Image ]
Xaxaxe wrote:Swords & Sorcery, right?I'd forgotten about the penguins, but X the Unknown was definitely the villain from that game.
silver_beetle wrote:AH's Magic Realm was pretty bad, but only because it purported to be a RPG, but was more of a board game. Great artwork, I thought, and great components, but then, it was AH.But by far the worst actual RPG I've ever played was Serenity. The only thing good about it was that it gave you a reason to use a D12. Bonuses, for, say, hitting something in combat were based on dice levels, so if you had a D6 to hit and got a bonus, it was now a D8. After D12, it became D12+D2, D12 + D4, etc. There was no D20, and I think they made this system specifically anti-D20. I was thrown off the message board for it because I was so critical of the game, and everyone else on there was freakin' in love with it! Great setting, though. I'd like to adapt it for Traveller.
Badmike wrote:I've always disliked the "one and done rulebook" settings like Serenity. They seem to appeal to a very narrow audience of fanatics who don't play any other systems and merely enjoy going over and over the same material as was in the TV show/movie/comic book/novel, etc.Mike B.
I think there might have been some Serenity supplements
FormCritic wrote:I just recall the cost on the Serenity RPG. I was put off.Serenity is one of those Science Fiction settings that people look back on and say, "Wow. I guess that was brilliant. Why didn't we appreciate it?"I loved the TV series. I couldn't figure out why no one else was watching it.