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2904
Things have really gotten pretty sleepy, here. Which is sad, because over the years, KoDP has remained one of the very few games to maintain my interest. Add...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 3, 2006
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2905
... You could put that up on RPG.net! Jeff -- Flight to Peru - £1000 Camping gear - £200 Native guide to take you into the mountains - £50 Radiation...
Jeff Kyer
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Oct 3, 2006
12:37 pm
2906
... It's also one of the few games (if any) done with watercolour paintings! - Alex...
Alexander G. M. Smith
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Oct 3, 2006
12:45 pm
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... If I do that, I'll do a complete rewrite first, enlarging it to at least twice the length. I would want to give a great title like KoDP justice. Barry...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 3, 2006
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... paintings! ... True, and thank you for the compliment, Alex. I should point out that I just came back online to comment in a new post that the one point...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 3, 2006
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2909
As long as we're discussing KoDP once again, I've a question. Has anybody tried using Powerstrip with the game? I'm running KoDP in WinXP. Powerstrip...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 3, 2006
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2910
... Microprose went through a phase when they did that. Pirates! Gold used paintings for all of its artwork, and Darklands used paintings for the non-combat...
Meredith Dixon
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Oct 3, 2006
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Very true. Darklands actually uses watercolor paintings for all the in-city menu backdrops, and for all special encounters. I think the same artist did a...
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roger_ducasse
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Oct 3, 2006
7:59 pm
2912
... Interesting trivia. I wonder what they did with the paintings when the game was finished. - Alex...
Alexander G. M. Smith
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Oct 3, 2006
9:52 pm
2913
... I believe the rights to the artwork staid with the artists. In turn the artists were then able to sell the original peices to anyone who wanted to buy. dfs...
dfs1962
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Oct 4, 2006
2:53 pm
2914
I too still play this game. It's replayability is very high what with the choices of clan patron gods and all the multiple story threads. As you said the...
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Oct 4, 2006
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2915
And... oddly enough... its low-tech nature enhances its replayability. It was never competing with the high-end shoot-em-ups of the time that now look very...
STEPHEN HUNT
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Oct 4, 2006
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... I suspect...no, I know that a lot of fans of that rubbish would disagree with you on that one. :D But then, the computer games industry is built, not...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 4, 2006
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Probably I'm being a bit harsh on the old shoot-em-ups, just used to be a games reviewer and saw too, too many that were all about shiny effects and very...
STEPHEN HUNT
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Oct 4, 2006
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... I'm another who had never seen anything of RQ or HQ before playing KoDP. It was... not always easy to grasp all the nuances. However, I found that fun;...
James Sterrett
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Oct 4, 2006
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2919
I was a Runequest fan and have played in some online chat games, Never did get to play face to face with a group which I would have liked. ... From:...
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Oct 4, 2006
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... having not been fans of Runequest beforehand? I was not a runequest fan. I'm still not. I very much enjoyed KODP. Along with being a game that did not...
dfs1962
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Oct 4, 2006
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2921
... I knew nothing about Runequest before I started playing KoDP except that it was an RPG with a complicated magic system. I still don't know all that much...
Meredith Dixon
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Oct 4, 2006
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2922
... I'd been playing RuneQuest quite a while before KoDP, and the cults background helped. Not very oddly there are several myths that were written for KoDP...
Alexander G. M. Smith
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Oct 5, 2006
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2923
I'd been playing Runequest since the second edition (the red hardcover), so most of the details were familiar to me. What wasn't familiar was the stories --...
John Scheibeler
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Oct 5, 2006
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2924
Has anyone ever had a reaction from this charming creature, other than the complete destruction of your entire party? Not that I mind; I feed council...
roger_ducasse
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Oct 7, 2006
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2925
... Yes, she's occasionally sent back my noble with a warning that I mustn't visit her lands again, just as the Beastfolk often do. And I think, but am not...
Meredith Dixon
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Oct 7, 2006
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2926
Usually if we promise never to trespass on her lands again she'll let the party go. Other responses have-almost--always resulted in death. Note that if trolls...
Bryan Thexton
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Oct 9, 2006
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I have often wondered whether relations with her might improve if you gave the trolls the Iron Spike, especially since the troll who comes to warn you looks a...
Meredith Dixon
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Oct 9, 2006
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2928
Sworn word to a bunch of Pharoahoic boot-lickers? Hah, next you'll want us to keep promises to the horse spawn! :-) In other words, I almost always give her...
Bryan Thexton
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Oct 9, 2006
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2929
... I'd played a single session, but it never grabbed my attention. KoDP did because it was so well put-together. It would take a very good GM to do the same...
David Harper
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Oct 11, 2006
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2930
Dear all, Hello, I'm new to this group and Gloranthan groups in general. Can anyone advise where I can get a copy of this game from in the UK? I went to the A#...
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Oct 20, 2006
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The game has been out long enough that probably most of those who carried it have stopped stocking it. Probably the best way is to order it from A# or see if...
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Oct 21, 2006
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I'm doing a long game, in the second part, and have gotten the important message to travel to a northwest kingdom this year. I go to Tarth, sending my best...
roger_ducasse
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Dec 5, 2006
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... go to ... that ... people ... it ... there's ... I ... wrong? ... Yeah, I know it should have been Tarsh. What of it? ;) I've also tried going to the...
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