<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=52106.msg2922113#msg2922113">Quote from: MadPanda on 09-04-2010, 14:41:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Point!  I ought to have clarified that my list is not ONLY indie systems.  There are just quite a few on there (and several that I own that are not on that list, like Poison'd or Dogs in the Vineyard, because I'm not certain how good they are for playing by post).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Fine, I just noticed Scion first, because I've heard people describing it as "mechanically more broken than Exalted". Either way, if I wanted a game about half-gods, I'd rather use UA2 with Avatars instead.<br/>And I was wondering if BoL or In a Wicked Age would work well for a PbP ;).<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=52106.msg2922113#msg2922113">Quote from: MadPanda on 09-04-2010, 14:41:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If I have an explanation for the lack of recruitment for indie games, it is likely to start with a curmudgeonly gesture in the direction of the OGL/d20 combine.  Not everybody has the time and interest in learning or experimenting with new or unknown systems, after all--some of those games are very small press, and one or two might be out of print by now.  And as for story?  It's easier to freeform.  Beyond that, your mileage (kilometerage?) may vary.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Well, I guess I'm just a "best tool for the job" guy :P.<br/>As for story, it might be<em>easier</em>to freeform, but if you look at my O&Os, you'll find out that I consider it less useful. Maybe it's jut my kilometerage, as you said ;D!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=52106.msg2922113#msg2922113">Quote from: MadPanda on 09-04-2010, 14:41:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yes, fighter/cleric/magic-user is a valid class, <span class="bbc_u">in Advanced D&amp;D</span>.  Gnomes only, I think.  Or was it Dwarves?  Certainly not for Humans.  Basic D&amp;D, which is what we were playing, has no multiclassing at all.  The closest you can get in Basic is to play an Elf.  (Elf is a class, and is Fighter/Magic-user.  Dwarf and Halfling are also classes--Fighter subset and Fighter/Thief, more or less.)  This gives you some idea of how fast and loose we were with the rules.  Or, rather, how fast and loose our DM was with the rules, because for about a year he was the only one who had a copy.<br/><br/>Trying to run through the Tomb of Horrors, using Basic, with third level characters.  That was an experience.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Ah well, I just don't know BD&D so well. I'm pretty sure that Fighter/Cleric/Wizard was legal for elves and probably for half-elves, too.<br/>Another thing I have never done is use scenarios. Actually, I'd risk to say that most people here don't use them ;). But still, for what I've heard on forums, the Tomb of Horrors is a rather deadly adventure :D! Did any of them survive?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=52106.msg2923029#msg2923029">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 09-04-2010, 23:10:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I haven't played much in the way of indie games. My favourite systems would be Scion, Legend of the Five Rings and Exalted, with Qin and Star Wars lurking just beyond. The new Dresden Files is looking promising, judging by my read through of the rules, but haven't had the chance to try it out yet.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I must admit that of all these, I'm only familiar with Qin and Exalted. So far, I just love Qin, and I love the setting of Exalted. The system, not so much 8-)!<br/>Right now, I'm reading Talislanta... ;D<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=52106.msg2923029#msg2923029">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 09-04-2010, 23:10:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Because Scion seriously rocks. It's a great game. The final scene in our Hero arc had our band refighting a chunk of the Battle of Stalingrad with ghosts, trying to stop Rasputin enacting a ritual designed by the necromancer who caused World War 1, which would kill everyone in the city, and fuel his ascension to Godhood. Now as demigods they're in the Chinese underworld, investing a centuries old ghost slavery ring. They're preparing for an assault on the palace of the evil taoist ghost that is behind it all, and after that they're likely to challenge the Celestial Bureaucracy itself that the 9th Hell is unjust in keeping eternally the souls of those who have died too soon.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Sounds like a great game >:)! As I said, the reason I'm not likely to play Scion is in the mechanics. Maybe it's just me, but they do matter to me. If I wanted to play Scion, I would just port the ideas to another system, or heavily house-rule the current one.<br/>But until we finish the current, heavily houseruled Exalted game, it's just not on my "to do" list ;). That's another reason I don't need to read the Dresden game!<br/>There are always more games than time to play them, I think it's a conspiration O8)!