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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 13:08:28 GMT -5
Prepare to join your 8th level brethern as I best you in "monkish" combat... ^__^ Sorry, Grasshopper, it will be a long time before you can snatch that pebble from my hand.
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Post by GT on Mar 12, 2008 13:14:13 GMT -5
You mean... THIS!! (displays pebble) Wanna make it "2 outta 3", O' soon to be subscriber to "Multiple Monkish Orders" ;D
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 13:53:48 GMT -5
I am an ex subscriber to "Multiple Monkish Orders". I Had several orders in the campaign, the Scarlet Brotherhood, White Lotus, Wu Tang, and a few more I can't remember. Now there is just one, and they former orders are just factions within it.
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 14:02:03 GMT -5
Oh, and how could I forget the Wing Kong and Chang Sing.
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 14:15:52 GMT -5
Those last two were featured in the Big Trouble in Big Ch'in adventure I wrote for characters that take a ride on Zagyg's slide.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 12, 2008 15:18:01 GMT -5
Did you ever run that Pitz Burke adventure from GAMMA WORLD 2e? Just thought that I'd reiterate, it got washed away by all the suds.
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 15:23:38 GMT -5
I've never seen the Pitz Burke adventure, but there is a Frick Building here.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 12, 2008 16:20:24 GMT -5
So maybe all those encounter areas are real.
Here I dug it up:
The Gany Center Shopping Mall Three Rivers Arena Pennlectro Corp North Side Works Rossum's Universal Robots A&W Division C&W Monorail Yard Sumitimo Specialty Metals Manchester Works South Park Village Phipps Conservatory Frick Fine Arts Building (Detailed encounter) Pitt Stad (ruined stadium) Action Police District HQ Carlow College (Detailed encounter) Western Medical center The Civic Arena Mercy Hospital Chatham Center Duquesne University Allegheny County Courthouse Horne's Dept. Store City-County Building Nipon Steel Building Central Transport Depot Gimbel's Dept Store Pitt National Guard Armory University of Pitz Burke Classrooms Consolidated Equity Estate Planning Center
I can't find Carlow College on the city map and I had a flashback of not finding back when I first played it. So I just made it up.
There was also a map of the greater Pitz Burke area with short detail.
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 16:24:33 GMT -5
Yeah, they're mostly real, Litle modifications. The Gany Center Shopping Mall is really Allegheny Center. That kind of stuff.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 12, 2008 16:38:31 GMT -5
I just zoomed in on Carlow College on GOOGLE EARTH and the building is noticeably capital "H" or rather capital "I" shaped which is prominent on the map but unlabeled.
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Post by GT on Mar 12, 2008 16:46:20 GMT -5
"Those last two were featured in the Big Trouble in Big Ch'in adventure I wrote for characters that take a ride on Zagyg's slide. " That was one of my favorite movies! Don't worry, Scott-sama... I shall help you find your way back to the "true path". And several Grand Masters of Flowers will be waiting there to welcome you!
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Post by Scott on Mar 12, 2008 16:55:16 GMT -5
T"hose last two were featured in the Big Trouble in Big Ch'in adventure I wrote for characters that take a ride on Zagyg's slide. " That was one of my favorite movies! Don't worry, Scott-sama... I shall help you find your way back to the "true path". And several Grand Masters of Flowers will be waiting there to welcome you! mIne too. None of my players have made it there yet, so Lo Pan is still waiting.
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Post by GT on Mar 12, 2008 16:56:58 GMT -5
Really, even given all of the cool movies that Carpenter's done, I still think that's at the top of the list!
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Post by GT on Mar 12, 2008 17:02:08 GMT -5
I have this whole adventure, if I ever get a Monk again, where a Lawful Evil Grand Master of Flowers "offs" the Grand Master of the PC--whose last request is that the PC gains power enough to gain revenge! How cliche Kung Fu is that?!? ^__^
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Post by GT on Mar 12, 2008 17:04:50 GMT -5
...Though I guess that I should read the "Destroyer" novels for ideas! ^__^
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Post by xelloss on Mar 13, 2008 4:27:08 GMT -5
I was gonna run an all Kung-Fu-using group of monks and martial artists in my gaming circle here (running in Scott's world per his request, GT) who's master/friend is killed and they must travel the lands of the Celestial Emperor, ultimately revealing a deadly plot against the Emperor himself which they must stop... Lots of lowly thugs to beat on in the beginning, and a classic Kung Fu battle against the big boss in the end... Gonna be fun if we ever can actually get together to game it...
-Mark
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Post by dcas on Mar 13, 2008 11:08:22 GMT -5
Gimbel's Department Store -- if that isn't a blast out of the past!
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Post by Scott on Mar 13, 2008 11:33:54 GMT -5
It sure is. I never shopped there myself. I was just dragged there a lot by my parents when I was a kid.
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Post by dcas on Mar 13, 2008 12:15:57 GMT -5
It went out of business before I was old enough to shop there myself. It must have been 20-25 years ago.
But I remember their holiday jingle very well: "It's beginning to look a lot like Gimbel's!" LOL.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 13, 2008 12:19:31 GMT -5
You know I think that if they continued to pump out material like that the GW game's "thrill" would've lasted longer. A contemporary module THE CLEANSING WAR OF GARIK BLACKHAND (1983) (a bunch of anti-animaloid racists settle in Yosemite of all places) which was done by the creator (Michael Price) of the earlier FAMINE IN FAR-GO (1982) (AKA the revenge of the chickens) set a really bland derivative extrapolation tone for the game which just sunk the flavor into what seem to be radical cautionary tales. Gary and Luke's LEGION OF GOLD (1981) set near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in a futuristic Elkhorn, WI is what I would have liked to see more of as well. The 90's GAMMA adventures are wafer thin with the stretched out bland content we saw in Forgotten Realms type schlock.
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