Vapourware Seven Dragon Saga - Gold Box spiritual successor from SSI veterans

[Roguey]

HHR and Roguey trolling a single thread is too much for me.

I wanted to be enthused, but these cargo cults insist on being disappointments.

 

[evdk]

To be a proper cargo cult, they would have to be emulating some sort of behaviour. What, pray tell, are they trying to duplicate?

 

[Roguey]

To be a proper cargo cult, they would have to be emulating some sort of behaviour. What, pray tell, are they trying to duplicate?

System looks like a bad, convoluted D&D-derivative to me.

 

[evdk]

That's still not cargo cult design though.

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[mondblut]

The system is designed to model many of the cool effects seen in anime and wuxia (foreign martial arts) films. So the feeling is over-the-top fun, but still balanced to provide challenge and interest.

I immediately lost all interest.

 

[Infinitron]

The system is designed to model many of the cool effects seen in anime and wuxia (foreign martial arts) films. So the feeling is over-the-top fun, but still balanced to provide challenge and interest.

I immediately lost all interest.

Hmmm, even if the art style isn't anime?

 

[felipepepe]

System looks like a bad, convoluted D&D-derivative to me.

You could at least bother to actually read it and call it a GURPS/The Dark Eye-hybrid. I've been reading everything and see nothing that screams "D&D".

 

[Abelian]

It's the Final Countdown to Doomsday.
We're heading for Venus.

We had a lot of luck on Venus
We always had a ball on Mars
Meeting all the groovy people
We've rocked the Milky Way so far
We danced around with Borealis
We're space truckin' round the the stars
Come on let's go Space Truckin'

Spoiler

Edit: anime & wuxia , 7 dragon saga is cheesy title, etc.

 

[Durwyn]

Sci-Fi, fantasy, anime, seven dragons, martial arts.... Dragonball

 

[mondblut]

The system is designed to model many of the cool effects seen in anime and wuxia (foreign martial arts) films. So the feeling is over-the-top fun, but still balanced to provide challenge and interest.

I immediately lost all interest.

Hmmm, even if the art style isn't anime?

There are few, if any settings I abhor more than the "martial arts" vomit. They are right there with comic superheroes and anime filth. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I don't want you back any longer, SSI.

 

[eric__s]

Martial arts CRPG? I'm in.

 

[felipepepe]

Funny thing, I've finished reading the available texts, and it actually reminds me a lot of a brazilian P&P system called 3D&T... don't you agree, Alex ?

One mistake that 3D&T does that this might have as well is the character stats. You have only 4 stats: Strength, Dexterity, Spirit and Intelligence. And you have 30 points to distribute among them, BUT it uses a summation system, so increasing Strength to 5 cost 15 points. The article itself states that you can make a character with 7-1-1-0 in the attribute scores, and reading the rules I can't but think that just like in 3D&T dumping everything in Dexterity makes you a God, since it regulates both damage and defense.

Also, here's the race, class and specialization list:

Specialties are adjectives you add to your class. So your full title would be "Fast Dwarf Knight", or "Necromantic Imperial Wizard".

 

[Monstrous Bat]

So, what CAN we expect from the game, other than "it will have kewl animu effektz!!!!111"?

 

[Mangoose]

The system is designed to model many of the cool effects seen in anime and wuxia (foreign martial arts) films. So the feeling is over-the-top fun, but still balanced to provide challenge and interest.

I immediately lost all interest.

I liked the wuxia choreography from the 80s... I don't know about now though.

 

[mondblut]

I liked the wuxia choreography from the 80s... I don't know about now though.

Choreography indeed. Dance Dance Revolution The RPG.

Fuck.

 

[Mangoose]

I liked the wuxia choreography from the 80s... I don't know about now though.

Choreography indeed. Dance Dance Revolution The RPG.

Fuck.

This is the good shit:

 

[felipepepe]

You guys are reading too much into it. You roll a bro with 4 attributes, then use points to buy "abilities", that can range from using magic to whatever the fuck they want. Apparently classes are just presets that you can customize, similar to D:OS, really.

Of course, the abilities are locked behind a password.... so no idea if you can spend 50 points to buy a Kamehameha or Hadoken.

 

[mondblut]

I liked the wuxia choreography from the 80s... I don't know about now though.

Choreography indeed. Dance Dance Revolution The RPG.

Fuck.

This is the good shit:

They need to do these moves with their dicks. At least that would be ridiculous and retarded in a good way, for a change.

 

[Alchemist]

If they really go the wuxia route they are seriously limiting their audience. Most people who want a Gold Box reboot probably want a traditional D&D-like setting.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I still can't wrap my mind around Dragonball + Numegaya mixed in a single game, how can it be anything but absolutely horrible?

And they've also said they "don't want to make it too hard to calculate for the casual player" in the thread Infinitron posted. Urrrgh.

 

[felipepepe]

Imma go sleep, maybe tomorrow people will start reading my posts or the actual campaign setting before posting drama...

 

[Galdred]

Late SSI wasn't good creatively.

They made the horrible Panzer General series.
They made dumbed down Wh40k Steel Panthers.
They managed to decline their Wh40k offer by making a horrible Panzer General clone set in Wh40k.
They also made some RTS crap.

Wasn't Panzer General a big financial success btw?
Their last games were a mixed bags but some of their best ones happened at that time (Steel Panthers, Chaos Gate)
I wish they were making a new Steel Panthers and Chaos Gate instead of this actually (and a true Steel Panthers 40K).

 

[almondblight]

They need to do these moves with their dicks. At least that would be ridiculous and retarded in a good way, for a change.

Hmm...

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

The system is designed to model many of the cool effects seen in anime and wuxia (foreign martial arts) films. So the feeling is over-the-top fun, but still balanced to provide challenge and interest.

I immediately lost all interest.

Hmmm, even if the art style isn't anime?

There are few, if any settings I abhor more than the "martial arts" vomit. They are right there with comic superheroes and anime filth. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I don't want you back any longer, SSI.

I can't understand how anybody, especially adults can enjoy martial arts and weaboo anime crap. More than half the RPG's people talk about on the internet outside of codex is bunch of jap weaboo shit, it makes me fucking rage, WTF is wrong with people?

 

[Magellan]

If they really go the wuxia route they are seriously limiting their audience. Most people who want a Gold Box reboot probably want a traditional D&D-like setting.

Agreed. Even a pretty generic fantasy setting would be great since we want Gold Box nostalgia.