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brak

Hello,

My name is Brak, and I discovered you guys through a random post over at dragonsfoot.org. I downloaded the .pdf and sorta fell in love. My hardcover order of your game will be arriving shortly.

I wanna play this game soooooo bad!

JimmySwill · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

Welcome aboard, Brak! And great to hear it!

Phred the Cleric. -I'm so glad I asked the 3rd question. These names are great.

Gregory Vrill · YOGC Staff Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 1021

I swear my brother had a guy named that. Welcome Brak and Enderby.
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brak · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the welcome!

Phred was something I inherited from my first DM over *cough, cough, hrmph* years ago. That an the pan-material plane franchise of Vomiting Goblin Inn & Taverns.
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Gregory Vrill · YOGC Staff Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 1021

That is a brilliant profile picture. Rock on.
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Omote · Ecclesia Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 3

Hello *waves* I found Wayfarers posted over on DF, and recently picked up the print copy from Lulu. Just awesome.

-O

Gregory Vrill · YOGC Staff Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 1021

Cheers, thanks. Just in time for the holidays too.
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brak · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

hey Omote!

... seems we share a lotta the same tastes, huh?
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Omote · Ecclesia Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 3

Yesssir! Brak certainly knows where the good stuff is. Wink

-O

JimmySwill · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

wolfie · Ecclesia Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 15

The questions:

1) Neither, sometime orc.

2)'Beyond the Shadows', it reads like the author plays Wayfarers.

3) In which game?

Hello, everybody. I found out about Wayfarers at rpg.net, while lurking. Some guy was asking for fantasy rpg recommendations and someone from YOGC put in a short plug with a link. I looked, and liked what I saw in the download sampler, got the pdf yesterday and I am reading it voraciously. That's special because I have been reading rpgs for a few decades and have become a hard sell. This is good work, guys. One of the easiest to understand rules-wise and creative, interesting settings I have found. The highest praise I can think of, though, is that it feels like mature adults wrote it. Many rpgs (small press and otherwise) come off as juvenile at best. You guys have your finger on the pulse of the hobby better than WOTC ever dreamed possible. This should have been 3e! It's not perfect (maybe we can discuss some of that in the near future) but I think this is truly one of the best rpgs I have picked up, as is, bar none. Even if I am an old BRP man.

Fantastic!

JimmySwill · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

Welcome Wolfie!

Thanks for the heap o' praise! -It's much appreciated.

Gregory Vrill · YOGC Staff Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 1021

Thanks Wolfie, and welcome.

Well, ya know, if there was a perfect RPG, then we'd all be done and could just go play that forever, ha. We worked hard to make it good, but, at least speaking for myself, my main goal was to introduce a number of ideas- or re-imagine a bunch of older ideas- that could inspire other gamers to go and make a better system and better world. Even if some of those ideas fall a little flat.

So absolutely we'd like to hear about what doesn't work, as that's the main way to grow and improve.

...

Never heard of Beyond the Shadows before, but here's an excerpt from an amazon.com review:

"Young Azoth sells his soul to a "Devil" by the name of Durzo Blint in order to protect his friends Jaral and Doll-girl. "

That is awesome in about three different ways, that I think I'll have to go pick it up.
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wolfie · Ecclesia Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 15

Anything 'not perfect' is minor and has to do with personal quirks. I like this so much I think I'll get the hardback, print out some stuff for makin' up characters and go find some 4e gamers and show 'em what a real rpg looks like...

Beyond the Shadows is the third book of a trilogy, the first two are Way of the Shadow and Shadow's Edge. They are good, and full of ideas. A new type of magic, poison lore, and so on. I highly recommend it, although that doesn't mean much yet.

JimmySwill · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: