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 Mar 14 2011, 06:48 PM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,139 Joined: 31-March 10 From: UCAS Member No.: 18,391  |
QUOTE (darthmord @ Mar 14 2011, 12:50 PM)  Yep. This is why I've not bothered with another critter book ever since. They won't release them like that one. Well Paranormal Animals of Europe was done in the same style. I didn't like that one quite as much but it was still good. I was severely dissapointed that Running Wild didn't have the shadow talk like those. Even though Running Wild had other things that made it a good book. |
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Mar 16 2011, 10:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 266 Joined: 21-November 09 Member No.: 17,891 |
QUOTE (Pepsi Jedi @ Mar 14 2011, 02:48 PM) Well Paranormal Animals of Europe was done in the same style. I didn't like that one quite as much but it was still good. I was severely dissapointed that Running Wild didn't have the shadow talk like those. Even though Running Wild had other things that made it a good book. Is that style similar to Earthdawn's Creatures of Barsaive? Where it's all in-character descriptions of things? |
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Mar 17 2011, 03:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,139 Joined: 31-March 10 From: UCAS Member No.: 18,391 |
Paranormal animals of North America and Europe was done sort of like a Zoological guide book for ... Paranomral animals. It's written like a real world researcher had researched them. The entry's were interesting, the GOOD part of it was that EACH entry had a nicely illistrated picture, and a page of Shadowtalk relating to it. some only had two or three comments but most had nearly a full page of stories where people had run into them and what happened, or how corps used them for security, or the 'real' origins. (( some of the drakes were engineered ect)) It brought the book to feel like the annimals were 'Real" not just lists of stats and stuff like a monster manuel.
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Mar 17 2011, 08:19 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 |
QUOTE (Yerameyahu @ Mar 13 2011, 11:15 AM) I loathe and ignore all shadowtalk, so I'm glad they didn't waste the space. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Well, it does add an avenue for multiple perspectives/truths available on demand, but generally it's useless and whatever info it adds was obviously removed from the text in the first place. |
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Mar 17 2011, 04:27 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,139 Joined: 31-March 10 From: UCAS Member No.: 18,391 |
I highly disagree. Lots of the shadow talk gives you plot hooks to play off of and story seeds. Even a Lazy GM can find tons of stuff to do with the shadowtalk in any of the books
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Mar 17 2011, 05:00 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
It also offers an easy pick and choose with touchy or controversial fluff. Text says A, Shadowtalk says hell no, B!, and the group can choose who is saying the truth. that kind of ambiguity made SR very flexible for different styles of play and different preferences about the background.
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Mar 28 2011, 09:16 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 27-April 09 Member No.: 17,116 |
Bought the PDF. It's ok...probably won't ever use the vast majority of the critters, but that's all right, I guess. Little heavy on sea creatures and tiny stuff. Count me as another person who wants the IC writing style (and shadowtalk) back. Entry order is also weird--determined by randon die rolls? Gygax would be proud.
Also count me as another person confused by the troll in the Century Ferret illustration. What the hell? |
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Mar 29 2011, 04:06 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,851 Joined: 15-February 08 From: Indianapolis Member No.: 15,686 |
QUOTE (eudemonist @ Mar 28 2011, 04:16 PM) Also count me as another person confused by the troll in the Century Ferret illustration. What the hell? He's so teeny and cute! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) |
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Mar 29 2011, 04:18 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
now that's a ferret!
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Mar 29 2011, 04:47 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Hate to see what an Awakened Mongoose would be like...
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Mar 29 2011, 04:50 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
Hell, i want one as a guard animal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)
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Mar 29 2011, 05:02 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
"The thing about small furry animals in corners is that, just occasionally, one of them turns out to be a mongoose."
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Mar 29 2011, 05:09 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
Now you got me thinking about making a dwarf with "mongoose" as a handle (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smokin.gif)
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Mar 29 2011, 07:59 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
I want to make a Mongoose Shaman.
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Mar 30 2011, 02:41 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
make him a dwarf with a bushy red beard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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