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Amazing engine metamorphosis alpha pdf7/24/2023 For a Standard encounter the heroes are +5 on initiative. I think it amounted to: For a dramatic encounter the villains are +5 on initiative. Dickweed player and his crony said we should go back to Palladium and give up on the new system. Of course, that was at least partly due to dickweed player intentionally messing up the cardplay, but they didn't think of it that way. The other players agreed, saying they hadn't really gotten any benefit out of the cards. The disruptive player made the case that the cards were stupid and didn't add anything to the game. The player who wanted to screw with the gameplay was happy that he disrupted everything and got a meltdown out of someone. The player who wanted to engage with the card mechanics was hurt. Finally, card-hater got dealt the Romance sub-plot card, taunted the player who wanted it, and then did his normal thing of dumping the card so no one else could play it. This was making the player who wanted those cards highly irritated. He had taken to showing he had it and then intentionally discarding it or using it for another function (I don't recall how the cardplay functioned exactly). The disruptive player had been drawing all the subplot cards. It came to a head after about three sessions or so. It didn't help that he had phenomenal luck at card draws. He would never share his cards, and he would make sure to try to bury any card that the other players would have found useful. Meanwhile, the other player basically spent his time trying to ensure no one got the cards they wanted. He saw them as super cool and wanted to use them in play. In retrospect, this latter player was a cause of a lot of problems, and this is just one of many.Īnyway, the player who really liked the cards really adored the concept of Subplot cards. Another player didn't really care for them, but didn't want anyone else to enjoy them. I had done some Robotech/Macross II adaptations, and was running some installments of my Robotech game with it. I had been trying to move things over to the Torg system because I really liked it around the mid-90s. Masterbook would probably win for me.Ĭlick to expand.Oh, the cards added drama all right. Although I was more of a Tales From the Darkside and Monsters fan. Tales from the Crypt could conceivably have been interesting. I can't say I've given Species any mental real estate since the 90s. Species would have been a draw for one player in my old group, but no one else. Still, I'd imagine Masterbook would be a good fit.īloodshadows has seemed superficially interesting to me, but once I started diving deeper I started discovering some things that make it much less interesting lying under the candy coating of the noir surface. But truthfully, I'd rather just have d6 Indiana Jones. When reading Torg, I always felt it was written for Indiana Jones. Masterbook has Indiana Jones, so it pretty much wins by default. What I've seen of Masterbook is very similar to Torg in most aspects, so I imagine I'd like Masterbook. I remember I thought that Rifts did the multiple reality invasion backdrop right while Torg did the system right. I liked the system of Torg, but wasn't a fan of the background. I didn't get into Masterbook either, but I did really like Torg. Most came across as pretty hokey, which honestly describes a good portion of TSR output during that era. That seemed like a good thing from the perspective of my 90s game group, who really didn't like playing other games beyond the main regular campaign because that was "time wasted" not advancing their primary characters.īut none of the settings or premises of the Amazing Engine games seemed worth anything. You could play different campaigns and different characters and have your progress carry over via the character core. I remember the promotional idea of Amazing Engine was appealing at the time. Those things lingered in stores for a solid decade. I remember the only thing I ever saw in stores was For Faerie, Queen, and Country, and that was like the RPG version of a Rogue One action figure. I owned a copy of Kromosome at one point. I remember wanting Bughunters at one point. Well, I don't recall much of anything about the Amazing Engine system.
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