1d8+DB Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 So is the Legend+ or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rust Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Mongoose originally planned to call the game "Wayfarers", but there was already a roleplaying game with that name, so in the end the game was named "Legend". Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmitchell Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Ironically a bunch of guys named their revision of D&D "Legend" shortly before Mongoose did. Naming your game with a single word from the dictionary is always fraught with peril. Edited April 17, 2012 by fmitchell Quote Frank "Welcome to the hottest and fastest-growing hobby of, er, 1977." -- The Laundry RPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbcreighton Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Mongoose originally planned to call the game "Wayfarers", but there was already a roleplaying game with that name, so in the end the game was named "Legend". But now Mongoose is selling something called Wayfarers so the question is: is it related to Legend in any way ? Quote I use fantasygrounds.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmitchell Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 But now Mongoose is selling something called Wayfarers so the question is: is it related to Legend in any way ? No. It's the aforementioned pre-existing RPG, which harks back to 1st edition D&D. Quote Frank "Welcome to the hottest and fastest-growing hobby of, er, 1977." -- The Laundry RPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 To really mix things up, we need to come up with a supplement entitled Wayfarers of Legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickMiddleton Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 And then a supplement for the other game entitle Legends of the Wayfarer... Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerallKahla Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 To really mix things up, we need to come up with a supplement entitled Wayfarers of Legend. And then a supplement for the other game entitle Legends of the Wayfarer... Absolutely insidious! I love it... Quote Emerging from my Dark Age... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 We could also suggest that the new Mongoose book ship with a label on its front cover: "No, no. I am Legend!" But then it might be confused with a certain novel and movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al. Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Sadly a leg end is either a foot or an arse. Still CoC(k) survived for decades so it might all work out Quote Rule Zero: Don't be on fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonewt Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) survived for decades so it might all work out I always wondered how well an Action! System conversion of CoC would fare from a marketing perspective. How would one order the words of the game title? That might be a FATAL combination. Edited April 20, 2012 by dragonewt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Hmmm, Call of Cthulhu Action! would be the normal nomenclature. As long as we don't try to import the leaves and only make tea with them, the DEA won't come after us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mankcam Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Heh heh keep it clean fellas, keep it clean ...heh heh heh! Quote " Sure it's fun, but it is also well known that a D20 roll and an AC is no match against a hefty swing of a D100% and a D20 Hit Location Table!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanszurcher Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I always wondered how well an Action! System conversion of CoC would fare from a marketing perspective. How would one order the words of the game title? That might be a FATAL combination. I've played CoC with just about every system out there at least once. Including the Action! System. As I recall it was a lot of fun...I'd totally be up for that. I wonder if Hero Games is still releasing Cthulhu Hero this year? Quote I don`t play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge. ~Vincent Price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Evil Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I always liked the Action! System and thought it was a shame that Gold Rush Games vanished. At one point, I seriously considered putting together a cyberpunk extension using a modified version of that system. As the bastard child of the Fuzion System from R. Talsorian and the Tri-Stat System from Guardians of Order, I suspected that the Action! could handle the genre well with a few tweaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I always liked the Action! System and thought it was a shame that Gold Rush Games vanished. At one point, I seriously considered putting together a cyberpunk extension using a modified version of that system. As the bastard child of the Fuzion System from R. Talsorian and the Tri-Stat System from Guardians of Order, I suspected that the Action! could handle the genre well with a few tweaks. I agree. Action! System has a lot of potential. A powers set and vehicle rules are all that would be required to make it truly a universal, generic game. It and its license documents were still available to download last time I checked at DriveThruRPG and RGPNow. But the author would truly be producing and marketing the materials on his own at this point. On the other hand, it is fully free to use as long as the proper acknowledgements are made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Evil Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Well...you can't market it as the Action! system any more as the trademark license required you to contact Gold Rush Games (which no longer exists). However, all of the Open Game Content from the rules is still available for misuse... Somebody did do a mecha system for the game that could easily be modified into a vehicles system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonewt Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) However, all of the Open Game Content from the rules is still available for misuse... Here is the most recent incarnation of the Action! rules that I know of; combined with the OGL Anime SRD, and a few extras: Open Anime (stand-alone)Open Core Role Playing System Classic (stand-alone)Beyond Mortal Men (requires Action! core rules) Somebody did do a mecha system for the game that could easily be modified into a vehicles system. The Mecha oriented work is MechASsemble SRD (v3). The download does not seem to exist anymore. Now to restore the balance and post BRP links on the Action! web site... Edited April 27, 2012 by dragonewt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Evil Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Here is the most recent incarnation of the Action! rules that I know of; combined with the OGL Anime SRD, and a few extras: Open Anime (stand-alone)Open Core Role Playing System Classic (stand-alone)Beyond Mortal Men (requires Action! core rules) Thanks for those links - now I'm tempted to start tinkering with the system again The Mecha oriented work is MechASsemble SRD (v3). The download does not seem to exist anymore. Now to restore the balance and post BRP links on the Action! web site... I've got a copy of the MechASsemble SRD (v3) and have made it available here: MechASsemble SRD (v3) The author (Jamie Borg) also started to draft a fourth version of the SRD, which I've made available here (in OpenOffice / LibreOffice format): ASsembler Core 4.0 RC2 And he was working on an early draft of a different system for superpowers (also in OpenOffice / LibreOffice format): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6610085/PowASsemble All of this material is Open Game Content, so now we just need somebody to port the Mecha rules to Legend or OpenQuest (My choice would probably be OpenQuest, since Legend might be a bit to fiddly for fast-paced Mecha fun. But I can imagine that OpenQuest could be tweaked to do the anime genre without too much effort.) Edited April 27, 2012 by Prime Evil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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