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Comment on Target Acquired by Silent

Silent — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:57:15 +0000

5th Edition may be a horrible edition, but there might still be good ideas to mine in there (such as the Politiclones). I hope you can find anything useful in 5th Edition that could be somewhat, sorta used in the modern day, and if so, you’d post it on Omega Complex and refine it in such a manner that you can safely disguise its Unhistorical origins.

Comment on Target Acquired by grilldos

grilldos — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:40:12 +0000

Nothing on this page exists. Move along.

Comment on Finding the ‘Point by Paul Baldowski

Paul Baldowski — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:18:57 +0000

I’m going to have a look into that mission – cheers. Hollowpoint feels right as a fit for the game, but the need for competence tempers the characters (and roles) that might get involved. Agency represents my first step for Hollowpoint skin definition, so I will have some serious thinking to do. The Agency needs to be a guiding force without have much presence, and the character Agents must have a reason to work for it. The Computer doesn’t fit the bill, because near omnipresence makes It too accessible. A High Programmer might be less ‘present’, but doesn’t instill competence (and, indeed, probably favours moderate incompetence to provide an ideal patsy for ludicrous schemes). IntSec seems the best of the Service Groups because while it would like to be omnipresent it isn’t, and the Group doesn’t want to mess about incompetence because while a scapegoat would be handy it actually wants the job done.

Comment on Finding the ‘Point by joey headset

joey headset — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:52:02 +0000

The Hollowpoint rules might also be good for running the Emergency Disaster Response Teams scenario that I contributed to Extreme PARANOIA. In that case, the (narrow) competence of the PCs is expected. Each character is very good… at doing one particular thing. And they are highly motivated to do that one particular thing even when circumstances DON’T call for it. Especially when circumstances don’t call for it.

Comment on Laser-B-GON by Joey Fudgepants

Joey Fudgepants — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:48:04 +0000

Can I use this anti-laser to take down anti-mutants and anti-commies? Hypothetically.

Comment on Discount Bonus Fun Joy by shart

shart — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:19:33 +0000

Just thought you'd like to know Mongoose has just reduced price of ALL THEIR PRODUCT DOWNLOADS at RPGNow/ DriveThruRPG by about 40%. This includes PARANOIA and Classic PARANOIA lines (25th Anniversary & XP editions). http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=45 According to Mongoose site, this is a PERMANENT price reduction.

Comment on The Defenders by Allen Varney

Allen Varney — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:52:10 +0000

“The Defenders” proper hasn’t been mentioned in previous PARANOIA bibliographies. But Dick later adapted that story (originally published in Galaxy magazine in 1953) as part of his 1964 novel “The Penultimate Truth” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth ), which I believe has been mentioned.

Philip K. Dick was really on an Alpha Complex kick in 1964. An earlier novel from that year, “Clans of the Alphane Moon” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clans_of_the_Alphane_Moon ), is widely recognized as a significant PARANOIA precursor.

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Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:18:56 +0000

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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:13:19 +0000

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Comment on Black Omissions by Paul Baldowski

Paul Baldowski — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:33:50 +0000

You’re kidding. I’m gonna scream. I told Matthew Sprange the moment I got my copy of Black Missions and he said it would be corrected. That’ll make for an interesting bibliographical footnote…