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Miniatures Adventure => Other Adventures => Topic started by: sandyxavier on April 01, 2008, 03:15:58 PM

Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 01, 2008, 03:15:58 PM
Maybe I can not see it but I am new here so cut me a little slack please :) but I do not see any discusion on the new and coming Fantastic Worlds or any talk on the Warlord O f Marrs style games, Flash Gordon would also fall into this catagory I think.
I have recently got my hands on some minis for a ERB Warlord of Mars styles game from http://www.bronzeagemin.com/miniatures_html/25MM/SCI-FI/Red%20Men/Dead-Earth-imperials.htm
Anyone point me in the right direction?
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Operator5 on April 01, 2008, 03:28:56 PM
Fantastic Worlds? What's that?  :lol:

I'm sure Marc will be along shortly to point you to every post made about Fantastic Worlds here (he did write the book and I'm sure he saves links to everyone who mentions it).

You can also check out The Speakeasy forum

http://www.rattrapproductions.com/speakeasy
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Mo on April 01, 2008, 04:41:44 PM
The best spot for game write-ups for Fantastic Worlds is here...

http://www.rattrapproductions.com/speakeasy/viewforum.php?f=7

Pretty much anything I find on the internet pertaining to a FW game gets linked there at some point. You can also check out the Yahoo Group here...

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fantasticworldsgame/

There are some exceptional pictures of Tony's Flash Gordon board to be found there, as well as some old pics of my Bronze Age John Carter stuff.

If you have any questions about the game feel free to post them here, or contact me personally!

Thanks,

Marc
Title: Rules?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 03, 2008, 11:48:14 PM
Do I need any other rulke book to play this game? I have Gloire and Amazing War Stories and it seems to refer to a core set of rules. If so which ones do I need? :(
Xavier
Title: Re: Rules?
Post by: Mo on April 04, 2008, 12:03:06 AM
Quote from: "sandyxavier"
Do I need any other rulke book to play this game? I have Gloire and Amazing War Stories and it seems to refer to a core set of rules. If so which ones do I need? :(
Xavier


Fantastic Worlds is a game unto itself. All you need to play is the core rulebook. All the Rattrap games mix well though. I used archetypes from Amazing War Stories for my alien invasion game I ran at a con recently...


http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=4754&highlight=invasion

Marc
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 04, 2008, 03:37:15 AM
Ok now I an confused  :?  where are thes core rules or rule book :)
Xavier
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Plynkes on April 04, 2008, 09:26:45 AM
Core Rules Books:
.45 Adventure (Pulp Crime-fighting action).
Gloire (Swashbuckling).
Fantastic Worlds (Pulp Sci-Fi).
Broadsword Adventures (coming soon - Pulp Swords and Sorcery).
All these are stand-alone games that contain all you need to play. They use the same core system but each is a complete game on its own.

Amazing War Stories, The Gargoyle (Death Soldiers of the Jade Hood), Dragon Bones and Super Science Tales are rules and scenario supplements for .45 Adventure.

Under the Black Flag is a Piracy supplement for Gloire.

Thrilling Expeditions is, I'm led to believe, a dinosaur supplement for Gloire, Fantastic Worlds and .45 Adventure (it's quite new and I haven't read it yet).
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on April 04, 2008, 03:12:17 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"

Thrilling Expeditions is, I'm led to believe, a dinosaur supplement for Gloire, Fantastic Worlds and .45 Adventure (it's quite new and I haven't read it yet).


.... which reminds me, I must get a copy once it's available as a PDF.
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 04, 2008, 04:05:01 PM
so i would be correct in saying I need .45 to be able to play warstories...
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Operator5 on April 04, 2008, 04:20:25 PM
Theoretically that would be correct. However, you can download the demo version of the rules and the Special Abilities list from the Speakeasy for free and both should be enough to run Amazing War Stories games.

Rich
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: LostInBrittany on April 04, 2008, 08:51:08 PM
Sigh, this forum is making me to spend lots of money  :cry:  :cry:

Last Sunday, after some weeks of hesitation, I finally decided to buy Future Wars.

I've just received it today, and I've read it entirely after work. And I must say that I really like it !   :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 05, 2008, 02:32:50 AM
many thanks to all, will be trying my first game of warstories as soon as I get the minis painted :)
xavier
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 05, 2008, 03:27:04 PM
stupid question but how do I post pictures? :(
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Hammers on April 05, 2008, 03:36:49 PM
It seems like this is a stumper for more people than yourself. First of all you cannot upload images to LAF. You have to find another site wether it is your own webhotel or free web publication sites like image shack or whatever they may be called.

Once you've uploaded the image you copy the full url pointing to the pic and slap the img tags arround it like so:
 [img] http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/2008_0404_Gandalf_white.jpg[/img.]

N.B!: I put a period after the concluding [img] tag so that it would not be interpreted as a real tag.
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Lt. Hazel on April 05, 2008, 03:43:56 PM
You can upload your pics here http://photobucket.com/
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: assi on April 05, 2008, 03:59:32 PM
Looky there, they've got the old GW Rouge Trooper Minis there:

(http://www.bronzeagemin.com/IMAGES/miniatures/25MM/SCI%20FI/28mm-mercs/32mm-adv-set1/32mm-adv-set-1-3.jpg)
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Plynkes on April 05, 2008, 04:24:30 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
N.B!: I put a period after the concluding [img] tag so that it would not be interpreted as a real tag.


No need for that, Hammers. That's what the "Code" button is for:

Code: [Select]
[img] http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/2008_0404_Gandalf_white.jpg[/img]
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Hammers on April 06, 2008, 01:08:43 PM
This is most certainly true. The end result will be the same if you use the Img-button to generate the [img]-tags arround the link.
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 06, 2008, 01:42:43 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
This is most certainly true. The end result will be the same if you use the Img-button to generate the [img]-tags arround the link.

I use photobucket and find I don't even need the image tags. :?
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Plynkes on April 06, 2008, 02:15:59 PM
Well Photobucket generates the IMG code automatically, so if you use the forum buttons as well then one set of IMG tags are redundant. Thus you end up with something like this:

(http://[img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/sticking.gif)[/img]

Which you do see sometimes around here.
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on April 07, 2008, 09:09:32 AM
Quote from: "assi"
Looky there, they've got the old GW Rouge Trooper Minis there:

(http://www.bronzeagemin.com/IMAGES/miniatures/25MM/SCI%20FI/28mm-mercs/32mm-adv-set1/32mm-adv-set-1-3.jpg)



The only downside is that to get the three GIs you have to pay $25.00 for 6 others too. They are all lovely figures, but I'd really only want the GIs  :(
Title: Fantastic worlds?
Post by: sandyxavier on April 08, 2008, 11:10:07 PM
A friend of min is painting some minie for me, from Bronzeage minis of the Warlord of Mars like range.
I had him paint over the ... um... female ...ur... um... (wispering) can I say breasts in this forum? ;)
Anyway I thought that if I ever was going to have the wife play, a possibility how ever remote, or any other femal for that matter, I had to cover those girls up :)
I was torn about it for a while but I decided that they had to at least wear some sort of tassle or nipple protection (That marsian sun can be rough you know) or have something block the line of site of them be it a weapon or bandalier or whatever. I just wish the minis came that way already :)
I hope to post some pics soon.
BTW my painter and friend is Howard WHitehouse, not sure if he even frequents this forum but he knows about it so, if it gets back to him, nice job mate
Xavier