Byronic Roleplaying? Lord Vincent Smallpees (R51 D58 O21) wants to seduce Lady Margaret Whateley (R45 D55 O23), the wife of his best friend Alfred Thompson. He choses to tell her he's been loving her for such a long time, that his heart will shatter if she ever refuses to be kind, or something like that. His Actor choses to roll below Vincent's Despair ; he rolls: it's a 11, which is a Success. Cowabunga!
Welcome to
Wuthering Heights: The Roleplaying Game. (
More here.)
posted by grabbingsand
on Oct 2, 2003 -
12 comments
Film Mogul is an online RPG that's "a simulation of what it is like to be a power player in the movie industry today." Take on the role of studio head, agent, producer, critic, or journalist and make
virtual movies every bit as crappy as the ones that the real Hollywood churns out!
posted by MrBaliHai
on Apr 6, 2003 -
5 comments
How to survive any RPG - a 'one size fits all' guide to Role Playing Games. As anyone who has played the Final Fantasy series knows, RPGs are full of
cliches. In my opinion, the best RPG I ever played was
Chrono Trigger, (its referred two quite a bit in those two lists) and modern game such as
Neverwinter Nights don't seem to hold my attention. Perhaps the way forward is to cross genres, mixing RPG with other games, such as First Person Shooters and Real Time Strategies.
posted by Orange Goblin
on Feb 12, 2003 -
36 comments
SmokymokeyS has been around for some time, but I've never seen it mentioned here. There's some great design and imagery to be found there, and they've been working on a
Javascript RPG called Triglav, which although they say it's unfinished, seems pretty functional and very cool.
posted by mikhail
on Oct 4, 2002 -
8 comments
Somewhere, beneath the cover of an innocuous-looking retail operation, those with true Power have built a facility to imprison forces man was not meant to know . . . things we were never meant to comprehend... dare you
peek inside...
posted by zeoslap
on Jul 16, 2002 -
12 comments
Best.
404.
Ever.
[Bear with; it's a little slow but yes it works.]
posted by louie
on Oct 23, 2001 -
65 comments
Bin Laden starring in his own arcade game. Some people have too much free time, or, perhaps it's a stress reliever... or marketing scheme... or who knows. Bin Laden is becoming quite the famous guy... soon, instead of the faceless enemy in RPG games, it'll be him.
posted by tsidel
on Oct 15, 2001 -
5 comments
Considering marriage? Now, with the RPG
You Stupid Bitch! you can experience the bliss of marriage (or, as the author of the game puts it, "the struggles between two manipulative vipers") with only your imagination and some old D&D dice. In a more literary mood? Try the
Wuthering Heights RPG. [Original link via
Portal of Evil.]
posted by arco
on Sep 29, 2001 -
1 comment
Steve Jackson Games , the makers of such fine pen-and-paper RPGs as
Gurps, has been running
a blog since 1994. I've been reading it since 1996, and I just now realized: it was the first blog I've ever read. In addition to release information, they also post game industry news, personal stories, and even
the Illuminated Site of the Week, all with intimacy and personality we've come to expect from blogs.
posted by tweebiscuit
on May 22, 2001 -
11 comments
