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Post by grinnenbaeritt on May 4, 2021 4:52:46 GMT
Hi, I'm Jerome from France. IRL, I'm a university professor in computer science, dangerously egding to my 50's. I'm affraid my RPG collection includes all published BP books.  Well, Hello from just over the channel! Apart from Computers (which hate me), you are OK by me.... (I'm watching from the wrong side of 50... teetering on the brink of the precipice that is closer to 60  ) |
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Post by lupmet on May 5, 2021 10:31:05 GMT
I call myself Lupmet on the web in RPG related forums (the downside with having a unique name, hard to be anonymous), and I think my website says it most about me; www.muorji.se/Refuge/. You will find a "Poseidon Swimming School" among other things there, which I wrote as an introduction to my players in my campaign Storm in Paradise (https://www.muorji.se/Refuge/sip.html). You will find quite some of the people and places in that campaign described in the Blue Planet Wiki. Our group are playing once a week and have done so since early 2000, we have played quite some games since then. The full list of games I've played and own since I started playing in around May 1986 you can find at www.muorji.se/Refuge/my.rpgs.html. |
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Post by neil on May 5, 2021 14:49:52 GMT
Welcome, Lupmet! Glad to have an old hand back. There's some good content for Storm in Paradise, and I hope people find it useful.
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Post by countthalim on May 6, 2021 6:20:58 GMT
Hi All, CT from the UK (We really do seem to have an outsized European presence here). Gaming since the 90's and now introducing my daughters to the hobby.
I love the fact that all the games that came out when I was a kid/at University are now coming back in bigger & better forms and I can actually afford all the shiny bits for them.
Looking forward to the new community.
CT
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Post by Pawel on May 6, 2021 6:35:18 GMT
Hi All, CT from the UK (We really do seem to have an outsized European presence here). Gaming since the 90's and now introducing my daughters to the hobby. I love the fact that all the games that came out when I was a kid/at University are now coming back in bigger & better forms and I can actually afford all the shiny bits for them. Looking forward to the new community. CT Welcome to the forums, Count! Oh yeah, it's a golden era for RPGs! Glorious classics returning with renewed energy, a myriad of indies in all shapes and form. Beautiful stuff. |
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Post by Jason on May 6, 2021 10:50:52 GMT
Now I really want to know what Mutant: Hindenburg is all about... |
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Post by lupmet on May 6, 2021 15:14:54 GMT
Now I really want to know what Mutant: Hindenburg is all about... Short answer to not get too off topic: In 1980ies Mutant was released, and later Mutant 2, as post apocalyptic games. It was set in a Scandinavia that had a 19th Century Wild West level of prosperity and nation states had formed after apocalypse. The main conflict in the games were between the main country Pyri, which capital was named Hindenburg (logic never was part of 1980ies world building), and the island Gotland. Mutant: Undergångens arvtagare (Mutant: the Heirs of the Apocalypse, I am unsure of the official translation) were a very successful rebirth of the original game. Mutant: Year Zero were set about one hundred years before the founding of Pyri (the families in Mutant: Elysium are noble families in Pyri). Mutant: Hindenburg is set after the great war has started between Gotland and Pyri, think World War 1 with all the paranoia and dissident reporting a non-democratic society with huge internal problems brings with it. I am not in favour of it, mainly I think due to the graphical language of the illustrations (and that I am not a fan of the Year Zero ruleset). I backed it because Mutant has always been one of my favourite games. |
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Post by crazyoldwizard on May 24, 2021 22:59:48 GMT
Ha ha, I’ve got Jerome beat at 52. My name is Gary and I’ve been gaming since the mid-eighties. I’ve got every print book of BP’s since 1st ed. I’ve even got a print copy of FASA’s PBRE. So I can say I love this game. Marine Biology was my favorite class in HS and I live in Jacksonville, FL 25 minutes from the Atlantic. I grew up in the water. Cannot wait to get my player’s guide and moderators guide from the Kickstarter.
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Post by Pawel on May 25, 2021 11:41:19 GMT
Ha ha, I’ve got Jerome beat at 52. My name is Gary and I’ve been gaming since the mid-eighties. I’ve got every print book of BP’s since 1st ed. I’ve even got a print copy of FASA’s PBRE. So I can say I love this game. Marine Biology was my favorite class in HS and I live in Jacksonville, FL 25 minutes from the Atlantic. I grew up in the water. Cannot wait to get my player’s guide and moderators guide from the Kickstarter. Welcome to the forums, Gary! |
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Post by jakob on Nov 19, 2021 13:24:59 GMT
Though I'm half a year later than everyone else, I'll do this as well ... I'm Jakob from Germany, but currently living in Mexico City. Blue Planet is among those settings that I knew about for a long time, but that, for some reason, I never got around to reading or playing - though it has been highly recommended to me several times, expecially when I was lamenting that there seem to be no SF rpg settings in the vein of some of my favourite authors like Kim Stanley Robinson or Ursula LeGuin out there - settings that think the social ramifications of new technologies and of alien contacts/space flight through a little more seriously. I kept saying: "Why are there no rpg settings like that?", people kept answering "Why don't you give BP a try?", and I always chickened out, feelingn for some reason intimidated by it.
Now I've backed the kickstarter, read the quickstarter and am a happy fanboy!
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Post by Pawel on Nov 19, 2021 13:29:40 GMT
Though I'm half a year later than everyone else, I'll do this as well ... I'm Jakob from Germany, but currently living in Mexico City. Blue Planet is among those settings that I knew about for a long time, but that, for some reason, I never got around to reading or playing - though it has been highly recommended to me several times, expecially when I was lamenting that there seem to be no SF rpg settings in the vein of some of my favourite authors like Kim Stanley Robinson or Ursula LeGuin out there - settings that think the social ramifications of new technologies and of alien contacts/space flight through a little more seriously. I kept saying: "Why are there no rpg settings like that?", people kept answering "Why don't you give BP a try?", and I always chickened out, feelingn for some reason intimidated by it. Now I've backed the kickstarter, read the quickstarter and am a happy fanboy! Welcome onboard, Jakob! From the description of your journey it sounds like you've arrived at the right place, mate. |
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Post by allie on Nov 20, 2021 0:13:18 GMT
By way of introduction: my name is Allie, I live in Massachusetts, and I've been a fan since I bought the v1 rules in 1998. I've never had a chance to play before, because I'm the only person I've ever met who knew it existed, but Blue Planet's been a considerable influence on my own worldbuilding, and revisiting the setting (after the Kickstarter ended, alas) has driven home how strong and compelling it is. It's very much a work in progress but I'm also singlehandedly why Blue Planet's TV Tropes page is so long. |
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Post by Pawel on Nov 20, 2021 8:01:24 GMT
By way of introduction: my name is Allie, I live in Massachusetts, and I've been a fan since I bought the v1 rules in 1998. I've never had a chance to play before, because I'm the only person I've ever met who knew it existed, but Blue Planet's been a considerable influence on my own worldbuilding, and revisiting the setting (after the Kickstarter ended, alas) has driven home how strong and compelling it is. It's very much a work in progress but I'm also singlehandedly why Blue Planet's TV Tropes page is so long. Welcome to the forums, Allie! Wow, awesome jobs on that TV Tropes page. I had lots of fun reading it. Well done!! |
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Post by jakob on Nov 22, 2021 0:13:23 GMT
I hope it's okay to use this thread for vaguely BP-related advertising that is also part of me introducing myself ... I've written and published a scenario for Pelgrane Press's Ashen Stars RPG that, rather by accident, shares a lot of themes with BP - among them a (threatened) underwater ecology and uplifts. It actually wouldn't be a very good fit for a BP campaign, because it is a lot more simplistic in its worldbuilding than BP, but still, if anyone is interested in it, I've written about it here: swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2020/01/ashen-stars-hidden-depths-is-out.html |
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Post by Pawel on Nov 22, 2021 8:38:16 GMT
I hope it's okay to use this thread for vaguely BP-related advertising that is also part of me introducing myself ... I've written and published a scenario for Pelgrane Press's Ashen Stars RPG that, rather by accident, shares a lot of themes with BP - among them a (threatened) underwater ecology and uplifts. It actually wouldn't be a very good fit for a BP campaign, because it is a lot more simplistic in its worldbuilding than BP, but still, if anyone is interested in it, I've written about it here: swanosaurus.blogspot.com/2020/01/ashen-stars-hidden-depths-is-out.htmlCongratulations on your publication, Jakob! Your scenario definitely sounds up my alley. I should give those Ashen Stars a try!  |
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