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[Kathulos]

Originally Posted by jursamaj

"World Newton"? What's this?

I think that he ment "Wold-Newton".
It's one of the most interesting, and convoluted, sites on the 'net. If your a fan of mixing and matching characters from different time periods.

You can check it out at, Philip jose Farmer's Wold-Newton

[tedankhamen]

Tedankhamen in Kyoto here Got into gaming in '89, played DnD, GURPS, and various others but always loved my Stormbringer and Cthulhu. Been a bit too busy for gaming the past few years with grad school, job hunting, marriage, and births and deaths, but now have time and inclination but few people to play with here in Japan.

I'll check the site out for a bit then decide how or what I can contribute. I also am wondering if someone could post the old 3rd-4th edition Stormbringer Nationalities and Classes tables - I lost mine in one of my frequent moves and all I have now is my Elric! book

Cheers!

[HollyKnight55]

G'day All,

I'm Mike, from Moncton, New Brunswick in Canada. Began gaming when I was around 10 (ie 1983) and I had a crush on the box set D&D Cleric. When I was younger, our longest campaigns were AD&D but we of course dabbled in whatever else was out there. At university I began to run games myself, and I focused on Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun & Earthdawn.

Haven't gamed regularly in some time, particularly since I work at call centres which means crappy shifts. I'm about to finally have a "day shift" in about two weeks, and when I have my evenings free gaming here I come! I was involved with the BRP playtest early on (I think I was WolfTouched, or maybe WolfInTheGlen back then), but again didn't have time.

My wife is a gamer (thank the gods!), we have a nice old house we share with our dog and three cats. We're pretty square, and proud of it.

Looking forward to a bit of talking.

EDIT: I did recently spend lots of money buying a bunch of GURPS books, but it seemed overly complex. I still feel I should give it a try. SJ does such a great job with FRAG! (PvP version, of course) and the MUNCHKIN games (World of Dorkness), as well as an amazing community and great support, that I feel like he deserves that I give GURPS a try. Someday, maybe.

[GerallKahla]

Originally Posted by tedankhamen

Tedankhamen in Kyoto here

Welcome, tedankhamen - How's the weather over there?

Originally Posted by tedankhamen

Been a bit too busy for gaming the past few years with grad school, job hunting, marriage, and births and deaths, but now have time and inclination but few people to play with here in Japan.

Have you heard of the Japanese International Gaming Group?

The JIGG is on yahoo groups under gaming, and it's a bunch of non-Japanese all over that particular nation who are looking for gamers... I heard about them on the Godzilla Gaming Podcast, from people on the ground in J-land.

You should look 'em up - odds are good, you'll find someone interested in doing some gaming in your area.

Originally Posted by HollyKnight55

My wife is a gamer (thank the gods!), we have a nice old house we share with our dog and three cats. We're pretty square, and proud of it.

Looking forward to a bit of talking.

Howdy and welcome - Congrats on the gamer-spouse! If only my Lovely Wife enjoyed the hobby... Ah well!

Originally Posted by HollyKnight55

EDIT: I did recently spend lots of money buying a bunch of GURPS books, but it seemed overly complex. I still feel I should give it a try. SJ does such a great job with FRAG! (PvP version, of course) and the MUNCHKIN games (World of Dorkness), as well as an amazing community and great support, that I feel like he deserves that I give GURPS a try. Someday, maybe.

You could do far, far worse than spend some time reading GURPS sourcebooks for background information! SJG does some of the best researched gaming books outside of Osprey I've seen. The fact that all their units are seconds, dollars, feet, and lbs makes converting to and from relatively simple, too.

Here's to your next time at the table; enjoy your game!

[MurfinMS]

Originally Posted by jursamaj

"World Newton"? What's this?

I remember it from a Wwwebsite dealing with Philip Jose Farmer's writings. Don't know if its still even around anymore, but it went to the trouble of tying together almost every pulp/adventure character into existing in a single fictional universe. I'm assuming that this is exactly what Framer was doing in his writings (never having read any Farmer myself).
The Highlander game we were involved in several years back was set in the late 30s, and over its length we met, in addition to our mentor, Duncan McCleod, Lord Greystoke, Bulldog Drummond, a young James Bond, Doc Savage, Lamont Cranston, and several other pulp standards.
The guy running the Highlander game stopped suddenly, dropping us all like hot potatoes because he wanted to start up a game using the brand-spanking *new* (at that time) D&D 3rd with a different set of gamers.
One of the current gang is a big Highlander fan, and I think she'd do a great job running a Highlander game, but she is contemplating running a RQ game set in a pseudo-mythical African setting instead.
Best,
=Ken-
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"If I were a Sea Otter, I'd have to eat 200
Quarterpounders a day just to
stay alive!"

[An unattributed comment overheard while my daughter
was watching Animal Planet]

[MurfinMS]

Originally Posted by Kathulos

I think that he ment "Wold-Newton".
It's one of the most interesting, and convoluted, sites on the 'net. If your a fan of mixing and matching characters from different time periods.

You can check it out at, Philip jose Farmer's Wold-Newton

Okay, I thought it was *World*.
My bad
Good to see its still there...
-Ken-

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"When I say, 'Fetch beer!' you'll put your pennies
together and pick up beer for Tiny.
If I only get enough beer I'll be silky as a kitten.
But if I'm out of beer" - he made a long pause and
looked around him ominously -
"may God Almighty have mercy on you!"

[Sven Hassel, Legion of the Damned]

[Inominavell]

Hello Folks!

My name is Haroldo Curti e Silva, from Brazil. I kinda like new stuff, and recently, looking for good stuff to read I got here, at BRP.
I roleplay since 92, tried a lot of different stuff but in my heart lies the White-wolf-money-maker series WOD and WOD II (Werewolf, Demon and Changelling...).
I'm in a CoC game set in the 20's, preparing some medieval stuff to run next year.

My group is Called Oblivion RPG and we use to organize here at my city some meetings... I don't think much here will be interested (mostly 'cause it's in portuguese) but we have a little website and a forum. oblivionrpg.com is the adress.

Hope to contribute with something over here.

Cheers!

Haroldo Curti

[Trifletraxor]

Welcome to the forum Haroldo!

SGL.

[MurfinMS]

In an earlier post, I'd written:

>The guy running the Highlander game stopped suddenly, dropping us all like >hot potatoes because he wanted to start up a game using the brand->spanking *new* (at that time) D&D 3rd with a different set of gamers.

I believe I'm actually talking *4th* edition D&D here? The one with the open gaming lisence and all those freaking big hardbacks from a couple years back? I am woefully ignorant of current D&D shenanagins (thank goodness ;P)...
Best,
-Ken-

[Patonius]

Darren from Melbourne, Australia.

Played DnD for 25 years....just started a Call of Cthulhu campaign. Whilst looking at the site, have seen the BRP rules, and must say, they certainly interest me.

Even more of interest is some of the stuff I have seen on this site.

I have played DnD for 25 years, as stated, but I much preferred the old RQ system... Mongoose Publishing's version hasn't really tickled my fancy, but this looks like it will...

Cheers

Darren