Other Atlas RPGs Nyambe gamers
From: YellowSign Posted on: Jul-1 1:11 am
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I don't have this game right now (partly because I'm poor and the price is a little up there, but mostly because of my almost phobic responce to anything having to do with D&D, ie the D20 rules), but that said, this sounds and looks like a great setting. What I want to know is if anyone out there is using it, and what it's been like.
How have you used a very non-Euro or Asian based setting, and how have your players reacted?
From: YellowSign Posted on: Jul-1 1:14 am
To: YellowSign
Message: 661.2
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Sorry, I should have put this in the D20 games section.
From: Tuura Posted on: Jul-7 2:44 pm
To: YellowSign
Message: 661.3
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Nyambe is on sale this month for 10 bucks. Check out Atlas to see the promo. I've just opened my own buisness and money is *tight*, but this really is a deal I can't refuse.

On the subject of non-Euro settings, I've often been a fan of Steve Jackson games because their supplements often indulge non-Euro settings. However, Jackson Games, and for that matter most games often have a hollywoodesque angle on the material. Beside the robes or animals, the mystic ablities often turn into lazers from the eye or hand and the rest is generic fantasy with the dressing of some exotic land.

My troupe is LONG time players of Ars and from time to time we have done side material outside of Europe. Japan, the Mongul Horde, Egypt. I would love for the troupe to go to India. Again, I feel that published material sort of lumps everything east of Constantinople as 'Eastern' and makes cultural variance for say China compared to Japan compared to I dunno, Russia a big zero. That is, in terms of game material, it's all the same. This has forced us (my troupe) to often make up our own material. As the authors of the material we play through, naturally we love it!

Anyway, Nyambe has always looked cool to me and what's it called, Northern Crown? It looks VERY cool as well. My troupe is die hard Ars Magica players and its very difficult to get them to try anything else, but the fact that these games are based more on folklore rather than hollywood or generic fantasy gives them a fighting chance. Furthermore, at 10 bucks I gotta give Nyambe a chance.

Chuck

From: YellowSign Posted on: Jul-7 10:13 pm
To: Tuura
Message: 661.4
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I saw that sale. A friend and I both ordered copies. I don't do D20 as a rule, but who's to say I can't use the material in something else.
I love Steve Jackson Games' historical books, when used as a start to research. They tend to be very handy overviews of the culture, and have a good selection of books to read if you want to dig deeper. I don't however like the Gurps system, so I just read 'em and go from there.
I once took an Ars Magica group through a portal to sub-Saharan Africa where a Roman legion had founded a colony centuries ago.
That's the closest thing I've done, but it was more E.R.Burroughs than historical.
Do you remember the game Rus (I think that's what it was called)? It was set in an Ars Magica style Russia. It was hard to get ahold of ten years ago, so I doubt you'll find it today. But, it might be worth looking for.