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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Parriah on February 16, 2011, 05:46:27 PM
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Well,
I'm addicted to 2 Very OOP games.
Crimson Skies is one, but see other posts for that
Here seems to be the place to talk about my other obcession...
Star Frontiers.
Does anyone here know of it?
It was released in 1982 when I was but a lad of 20 myself. I had been playing AD&D for a few years then. But I love Sci Fi above Fantasy. So, I had pined for a Lasers and spaceships game. Then TaDa! SF!
It was put out by TSR the makers of D&D, and showed its lineage, but was different too. all rolls are % rolls or d10(mostly for dammage there)
There were 6 boxed sets of lead minis
Adventurers
Player Characters
Robots(small box only 6 bots)
UPF ships(the good guys)
Sathar ships(the evil worm like alien bad guys)
andYachts & Privateers ships
I have modified several of the PC races figs and as soon as I can figgure out how to get pix from my crappy TracFone onto a computer I want to post them here.
Later Pb heads! :D
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I've just run the starter Star Frontiers three module adventure for my players using Hard Nova II rules. It was fun but very, very 80s.
You can get everything you could ever want for Star Frontiers here:
http://www.starfrontiersman.com/
http://www.starfrontiersman.com/downloads/remastered
http://www.starfrontiersman.com/downloads/modules
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Yup, I knows a tad about it. Been meaning to introduce the arpeg to my D&D group. I own the Adventurers set, maybe the players one too, I don't remember. Loved the alien races and general, open and unlicensed setting.
Welcome aboard, fellow!
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@ Matakishi I am very acctive there, look in the issues and you will see my byline there in several issues. But Thanks for the answer. I wanted to try and find someone new to talk about this.
@ Bako Not Baka? hmmm... :D Big joke, didn't mean anything insulting, just forgot I was in a new pklace where everybody doesn't know me yet. so, we good?
Annyway, Thanx for the welcome aboard, I hope to be here a long time.
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I was talking about it the other day in fact. Just not on here. I was bemoaning the fact that you can't get decent Vrusk anywhere (even my shockingly bad modelling putty skills can create a viable Dralasite).
Yes, you will find quite a few people on here who've been gaming since the 80s. Some even since the 70s.
Welcome, pull up an Edorna and make yourself comfortable.
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@ Bako Not Baka? hmmm... :D Big joke, didn't mean anything insulting, just forgot I was in a new pklace where everybody doesn't know me yet. so, we good?
Oh, we're quite fine, fellow! You'd have to do far, far worse by a long mile to even mildly insult me :). 'Bako' is short-form for my original username (Bako'Ikaporamee). Depending on who's talking to me though it can be either 'Bako' or 'Batko'. If anyone's a silly baka, it's you though ;D.
Always liked the Yazarians.
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Damned flying monkeys in goggles. I just use any old monkey models I can find. Judge Dredd armed Chimps, Wookies, I don't really care.
Yazirians were always my favourite when playing. Got to love battle rage.
Just not for modelling. I never fancied making the wings.
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I've got some of the actual figures kicking around my bits box. My 80's sci-fi project is on indefinite hold though :?.
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@ Red Orc
I took a MageKnight elf warior(female, can't remember which one exactly) took off the sword and head, sculpted a passable head in sculpy, and put on wings, real easy, just rokk out flat, carve into appropiate shapes, drape like in gravity and viola! nearly instant Yazarian, wookioe, chimp,whatever you wanna call it.
@ Bako: Well, I have started a LOL annonimous, but for you LOL
BTW if you have ever LOL'd "socially"
or lost time after LOLing
or done something you never would have except for having LOL'd,
come to the meetings at my place, the coffee's horrible of course.
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Good thing I don't drink coffee then!
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Mebeso!
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Does anyone here know of it?
It was released in 1982 when I was but a lad of 20 myself. I had been playing AD&D for a few years then. But I love Sci Fi above Fantasy. So, I had pined for a Lasers and spaceships game. Then TaDa! SF!
It was put out by TSR the makers of D&D, and showed its lineage, but was different too. all rolls are % rolls or d10(mostly for dammage there)
There were 6 boxed sets of lead minis
Adventurers
Player Characters
Robots(small box only 6 bots)
UPF ships(the good guys)
Sathar ships(the evil worm like alien bad guys)
andYachts & Privateers ships
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Oh yeah, very familiar. Sold off a collection of the ships a while ago.
Have to admit when I saw the title I (being, from a rebound marriage, ex-LDS,) flashed to various jokes and variations on the Brigham Young line, "This is the Place," such as "This is the place??!!"
Gracias,
Glenn
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Sorry, but the LDS esoterica play on words went right over my pointy little head. As a US History Major, I feel ashamed, but don't recognize the reference. Would you like to expand on it?
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Hope I didn't offend?
Truly sorry if I did, I only want to make new friends.
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??? :'( UM,
I really am sorry if I said something bad. :)
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No prob. Just haven't had time to answer with a rational, full explanation.
Gracias,
Glenn
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Hey, Parriah and Conquistador. Hereīs a link where you can change your avatar pictures so that you donīt have to share that Pulp pilot.
This is a link where you can make your own avatars:
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/
Choose a photo from your computer. Set Avatar size 80 for LAF. Press Rezise button. Download the re-scaled picture and upload it in the Profile - Profile information page.
All the best!
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I acknowledge his good taste in Avatars. :-* lol 8)
I see no reason for either of us to have to change. :-[
There is no copyright infringement going on here. ;)
:)
Gracias,
Glenn
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In advance, my apologies for going waaaay off topic. This will be the last I have to say on this subject on this thread and probably ever again on this forum.
Without getting too much into LDS mythology/history (or even theology,) the LDS (Latter day Saints, aka Mormons to others) church suffered a schism after the death of it's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., in Carthage, Illinois, and a group was led by Brigham Young to "Zion" by what Brigham Young claimed was God's guidance.
If you ever have been to Utah's wilderness and traveled the route from Illinois to Utah then you can imagine the various inflections possible when Brigham Young announced that what would become Salt Lake City was Zion with his words, "This is the place."
From an on-line timeline:
Jul 21, 1847 - According to Mormon legend, advance scouts reached the Great Basin on July 21, 1847. Three days later, the main body of Saints came to the valley, at which point Brigham Young said: "It is enough. This is the place." The long Mormon hegira was over. On the shores of the Great Salt Lake, separated by distance and desert from their persecutors, the Saints began to build a new civilization. They called their state, "Deseret." At its heart was the Mormon Church ...
Every LDS and non-LDS comedian probably has been able to put varying degrees of emotion than the officially sanctioned one into that statement. My favorite (shock, incredulity, and a touch of horror in the voice) is "This is the place?"
Yes, I am ex-LDS (Christian before, during, and after my time in the LDS faith.) Please view my comments within the bias that implies. I respect many LDS members (even those of my extended family) but I have little use for the hierarchy/faith as it exists.
Gracias,
Glenn
For a different view of the LDS church - having absolutely nothing to do with our miniatures or war games so you have been warned - see http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon33.html
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THANX man, I knew of the Trek, and the problems they had later when westward settlement brought them into conflict with the US govt. The hyperbole around the "Massacre" and all. I especially enjoyed the way the Saints referred to the Militias as "The Americans" They REALLY wanted to be a separate nation. Sometimes (most times actually) when someone just wants to be left alone, nobody will just do that!
But Thanx for the explanation, I really didn't mean to offend, if I did. :)
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No offense, I have had harsher discussions with my LDS cousin and she still loves me. :o lol :-*
Gracias,
Glenn
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I don't think we need different avatars either! :D :D ;D