Shannon O'Neill

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• greg

  January 3, 2006 at 8:11 pm

  So I’m assuming that you know them now? And how come you’re using the Royal ‘we’?

  The one thing I didn’t know this time last year

  That ‘Lemon Morning Fresh’ dishwashing liquid is a perfect substitute for fresh lemons in cooking.

• Christian McCrea

  January 5, 2006 at 12:18 pm

  Always wanted to play Traveller, it seems relatively *awezome*. I will be soon joining an X-men game run by a rampant continental philosopher based on the fact we went nuts playing X-men legends 2.

  … eer… I mean…. *lifts weights*

• Shannon

  January 7, 2006 at 8:37 pm

  haha… I’m lifting weights right now!

  (Classic) Traveller was my favourite RPG in the 80s (closely followed by AD&D 1st edition). It was amazing – designing galaxies, or huge fleets of spacecraft. Or smaller scale adventures such as running contraband through dangerous systems…

  It’s a shame that it didn’t have the influence of D&D, although I see some resonance in TV shows such as Firefly, Babylon 5 and the more recent Star Treks. A new CRPG version of it would be nice – like D&D got with Neverwinter Nights.

  The X-Men (and related) comics were also an obsession of mine in the 80s so I was very excited about the films, but playing X-Men Legends 2 has got me obsessed again. I’ve recently been catching up with the 90s animated series, which is pretty good. Don’t know if I can deal with the more recent X-Men Evolution series, where they’re recast as teenagers, or the recent comics which seem to be shamelessly milking the post-film popularity (eg Wolverine is in at least four titles).

• adrian

  January 8, 2006 at 11:20 pm

  but what about Toon??

  http://www.sjgames.com/toon/

• adrian

  January 8, 2006 at 11:24 pm

  oh, and i kind of liked early x-factor where the five original x-men reunited and played a crucial role in the great marvel mutant massacre – possibly one of the greatest and (shamelessly cross title) story lines that marvel ever managed

  erm…yes, time to…go to the gym…yes, the gym

• Shannon

  January 9, 2006 at 12:28 am

  Toon, Paranoia, Gamma World… so many cool RPGs. My parents owned a photocopier, so I had copies of just about every RPG book in the 80s (I can still smell the toner). The ones I bought included Traveller, AD&D and anything by (the under-rated) Palladium Books.

  Adrian, I remember buying your copies of Dragon magazine!

  Now every old & new RPG is available in pdf form, via p2p. But what to do with them? It’s difficult to imagine actually running a campaign these days. We’re all so busy…

  Re: the X comix, my favourite after Uncanny X-Men was the New Mutants, especially the artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz.

  Christian, what’s the X-Men game that you’re joining?

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