Posts Tagged “pen & paper rpg”

Japan kicked it to the curb!

I mean, come on, a table-top role playing game where you rolepay maids. I like them, but I am just so used to play brainless brutes (mercenary or barbarian) or cowardly rogues that I cannot mentally picture my near-30 self calling one of my fellow rolepayers “Ojou-sama”.

I am frankly doubting the maturity of the players. From my personal experience, the majority of the gaming tables can’t properly role play court intrigues like in Legend of the Five Rings or police investigations like in The Call of Cthuluh. Not to say it is a bad thing tho. It’s only bad if you are one of these “SERIOUS BUSINESS” game masters.

As far as my personal scope goes, I can’t see how a game can go nice and dandy without my players joking about “office affairs” or “cigars”. Maybe it is one of these games you would properly enjoy with a boatload of whisky, coca cola, beer and weed. Maybe that is it, the secret of happiness in a tabletop rpg, loose expectations and lot of “artificial paradises” devices.

EDIT:

krisslanza, the girl who showed me the link, had gotten her hands on a pdf of the book and rolled Sheba meido for the lol:

Sheba meido is:

- A pure lolita
- Nekomimi Mermaid
- Low athletic and affection stats.
- Kinda low in Cunning stat.
- Kinda low in Luck.
- Average Will
- Had a tragic love story where lover have died.
- Have learnt Necromancy.
- Act like a spoiled brat when under stress.
- Have a hammer as a signature weapon.
- Her dress is a hammer space as long as she is in the mansion.
- Can be tenacious.
- is a part of a shadow clan.

If I spin it well, she is a loli with poor battle skills, but compensate it with necromancy and hammer space. And she can be right at home in Gensokyo or Seto no Hanayome.

Back in the 1980s, I was drooling over the boardgame Space Crusade, a game from the Warhammer 40k franchise. But in the 1990s, when the trading card games like Magic: The Gathering were all the rage, a card game has drawn my attention. Its name? Doomtrooper. It’s a trading card game from the Mutant Chronicles franchise. Then snowball effect came along. I have gotten my hands on the RPG sourcebook. I have fallen in love, and Mutant Chronicles turned out to be the RPG I played the most along with Dungeons & Dragons and Legend of the Five Rings.

Then the franchise slipped off the radars because of the misfortune of its publishers (the cancellation of its MMORPG just did not help). However, a strong community of players (especially those from Europe) refused to let it die and kept the flame burning. The internet helped the communities to provide help for each other, then a new edition of the game, along with a movie has been announced.

The new Mutant Chronicles. Less BIG shoulderpads. MORE grit.

For those who will go see the movie, I’ll tell you this: If you were a player, don’t expect too much and take it as a separate entity, just like how Burton’s Batman is so different in flair and style from Nolan’s Batman. If you never played the game, just know that beneath the shallow B-movie shell lies an ambitious universe that hold strokes of genius that set it apart from its concurrent, Warhammer 40k.

So how Mutant Chronicles has come out as 40k clone but has managed to get an identity on its own? Why do I like it more than Warhammer 40k?

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… and discussing with friends or acquaintances about D&D4.

I have come to the conclusion that a rather large portion of wizard players are whiny little bitches.

When your fighter do that in D&D, wizards WILL accuse you of trying to steal the limelight

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First, this will be my rage toward Haruhi Suzumiya’s french dubbing. If you english speakers were whining about the quality of english dubbing, you actually got it better than us, the frenchmen.

The voice actress sounded like an unpaid walker-by they randomly picked up in the parisian underground train. Even a highschooler from the theater club would have done it better. It is clear that the company that bought the rights was more interested in milking the cow than offering quality products to its customers. They intends to release it at a rate of one DVD of 4 episodes (likely 4, 4, 3, 3) for 19.99 euros. From the exchange rate, it’s about 15 dollars. Anime DVD is an expensive hobby in France.

Bitches don’t know about my rage

Next topic is D&D4

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