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Post by tdenmark on Nov 7, 2022 22:51:28 GMT -6
If I was to make a Companion to the base Warriors of the Red Planet rules, what should it include? Off the top of my head here are some ideas:
Social Status expanded rules Honor
Races Outlander Space Vampires Devil Girl Space Amazon Shapeshifter Volkana (highly logical) Androids Plant people
Classes Assassin Noble Space Princess Psychic Warrior
More Mentalism Powers More Weird Science Gadgets Expanded Ship Combat Ship Plans More Monsters Non-Player Characters One Page Adventures Barsoom Sampler - a City Ruins of Mars A Megadungeon of Mars More Random Tables
What do you think? What else should it have? What's missing from WotRP?
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Post by Finarvyn on Nov 8, 2022 17:54:05 GMT -6
This is an awesome post, chock full of neat ideas. I would definitely buy this!
I guess what it comes down to is whether you want to emphasize a Burroughs feel or a more general scifi feel. I think that all of this stuff fits well with the Red Planet concept, although clearly a lot of it isn't "canon" to Burroughs.
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Post by tdenmark on Nov 8, 2022 18:43:47 GMT -6
This is an awesome post, chock full of neat ideas. I would definitely buy this! I guess what it comes down to is whether you want to emphasize a Burroughs feel or a more general scifi feel. I think that all of this stuff fits well with the Red Planet concept, although clearly a lot of it isn't "canon" to Burroughs. I look at WotRP as a kitchen sink of the Sword & Planet genre, heavily weighted towards ERB. A Companion rulebook would expand that to include whatever Science Fantasy GM's want to put into their campaign.
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Post by grodog on Nov 20, 2022 17:41:01 GMT -6
I don't know the later Barsoom novels after about #6 or so. Anything else worth mining from them?
Or from the Venus novels, perhaps?
Allan.
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Post by cometaryorbit on Nov 23, 2022 22:59:26 GMT -6
I don't know the later Barsoom novels after about #6 or so. Anything else worth mining from them? Well, the later books have a bunch of weird beings...
Intelligent beings -
Tarids (psychic invisible people from Phobos)
Masena (one-eyed cat humanoids from Phobos)
Hormads (mutated synthetic humanoids, artificially created by weird science in a lab) Goolians (sort of kangaroo people) Morgors (high tech "skeleton" people - but not undead, just skeletal in appearance - from Jupiter)
Monsters - Giant spiders that produce very valuable silk
Malagor (giant birds, large enough to ride) 30-foot giant mantis-like bugs Horrific giant blob created by the hormad vats gone wrong, immune to most things but capable of being destroyed by fire in huge quantities Giant carnivorous 'plants', basically land sea-anemones the size of trees (on Jupiter)
The (kinda questionable, possibly not entirely by ERB) Giant of Mars also has intelligent 3-legged rats and a 100-foot-tall near-invulnerable/regenerating giant.
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Post by Finarvyn on Nov 24, 2022 6:05:46 GMT -6
The (kinda questionable, possibly not entirely by ERB) Giant of Mars also has intelligent 3-legged rats and a 100-foot-tall near-invulnerable/regenerating giant. I thought it had been established that ERB's son wrote that last material. Certainly, the point of view changes a lot and the writing doesn't even remotely feel like the same author. (The first ten books use first person, as in "I did this," a lot whereas Giants of Mars uses third person, as in "Carter did this.")
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Post by tdenmark on Nov 25, 2022 15:48:10 GMT -6
I thought it had been established that ERB's son wrote that last material. Certainly, the point of view changes a lot and the writing doesn't even remotely feel like the same author. (The first ten books use first person, as in "I did this," a lot whereas Giants of Mars uses third person, as in "Carter did this.") Yes. John Carter of Mars (the last book in the series) is certainly not written by ERB. It was most likely written by his son. Kind of a funny twist that the entire series has come to be called by that name.
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Post by cometaryorbit on Nov 25, 2022 17:32:42 GMT -6
The (kinda questionable, possibly not entirely by ERB) Giant of Mars also has intelligent 3-legged rats and a 100-foot-tall near-invulnerable/regenerating giant. I thought it had been established that ERB's son wrote that last material. Certainly, the point of view changes a lot and the writing doesn't even remotely feel like the same author. (The first ten books use first person, as in "I did this," a lot whereas Giants of Mars uses third person, as in "Carter did this.") I certainly had heard that it was by his son, but I wasn't sure if it was properly confirmed.
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Post by Finarvyn on Nov 26, 2022 7:05:52 GMT -6
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Post by cometaryorbit on Nov 26, 2022 23:39:12 GMT -6
Cool, thanks. And yeah, it's not nearly as good as the others. My favorites after the first three are Swords of Mars (#8) and Synthetic Men of Mars (#9).
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Post by stevemitchell on Nov 27, 2022 11:19:36 GMT -6
Chessmen of Mars!
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Post by tdenmark on Nov 28, 2022 15:58:02 GMT -6
Gods of Mars may be my favorite if I had to choose, but all of them are rip roaring fun!
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