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Heroic Knight
 
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| http://www.rpgarchive.com/index.php?page=adv1&advid=550 Thought I'd post this link as this game deserves to be played. I was in Mr Harris' original and it's a lot of fun. Now, I don't really have the intellect to get my head round it to run it, but I think it deserves my unconditional plug nonetheless. T.
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Heroic Knight
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| Hero has a rather bad press, but as a long-term player I reckon it's as versatile as any other core. Amber? that was the diceless game of some years ago? I've never played it, but I would have thought that a game with lots of design freedom is what you need. If that's Amber then go for it. I have to say that Banks Sci-fi is beyond me altogether, so I have respect for anyone who can actually read it. Good luck. T.
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I have greatly enjoyed Iain M Banks sci-fi novels , culture or otherwise. I would have thought (having played it extensively) that the old Mega Traveller rules and sourcebooks would be ideally suited to re-intepret for a Culture background. The only downside, for anyone who doesn't own them, is they were published about fifteen years ago.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
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Wow, thats impressive, trying to simulate a culture novel. I would say that all the players would have to have read at least one book. Also his characters are not really heros. I would see them as ordinary spoilt people living in an extraordinary world. If it was during one of the many wars, how do you bring across his style and not have another action movie.
Skills etc would need allot of thought. How would you stop the the computers can think of and do most things solution?
If you have made any progress with the idea, or even played a game, I'd love to know how it went.
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Heroic Knight
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I played in the aforementioned HERO version. Yes I agree we were rather avant garde spoiled brats rather than traditional heroes. I didn't really get into Culture, it falls short for me, but we certainly didn't have an action movie experience. I should say that EC isn't purely Culture, more Culture-derived along with other inspirations in the genre. But the 'Minds' definitely had a separate agenda, and we tended to be the implements of that agenda, even if we didn't know it.
I can see MT or even just ordinary Trav as a good choice too. Whatever it is it has to be flexible, and the ref and players have to be able to bend reality when needed.
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| Traveller and all its variants are in no way out of print. Far Future Enterprises, run by Marc Miller who has his name plastered all over original Traveller, recently issued compilations of the original stuff. In the next month or two classic Traveller and Twilight 2000 are being issued on CD roms, so you can have all the material (even those supplements you thought weren't worth the cash) at a reasonable price. For megatraveller, traveller:the new era, and Marc Miller's traveller (aka T4) you can go to drivethrurpg.com and buy watermarked PDF downloads of the originals. Mine all have "Tom Nowell order xxxxx" on the bottom left of every page when I printed them out. GURPS is good if you like points-balancing wildly different character ideas, and the Transhuman Space setting shows you how to adapt Hard SF with computers, humans and bioengineered things into GURPS terms. Character creation does take weeks and some bits of the game do get a bit hard to handle, so I ended up freeforming half of it last time I tried running a hard SF game. Let's hear it for hard SF tabletop games, and does anyone know of any good scenarios you can find?
No, you probably don't remember my character from the events I've been to.
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Doing a google search is probably the best way. Lots of strange and informative stuff out there. If you look long enough you will often find stuff that suits you. I have started keeping a notepad of useful URL's cos I tend to find food stuff and then forget where it came from.
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