80s and 90s cartoon and video game fantasy was the tits, Veeky Forums. He-Man, Thundercats, D&D, even the Conan cartoon. I know there's a system out which emulates this kind of setting in a rules-light way but I forget what it's called. Remind me please.
Also what is it with oldschool fantasy and kickass women in leotards?
Barbarians of Lemuria.
>Also what is it with oldschool fantasy and kickass women in leotards?
It was a time before feminism went full retard cult status.
That's Conan-lite for sure. There is another game that specifically focuses on Saturday Morning cartoons as well.
Are you thinking of Masters of Umdaar a FATE Accelerated suuplement for technofantasy planetary romance toyetic Saturday morning cartoons?
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>Are you thinking of Masters of Umdaar a FATE Accelerated suuplement
Well, even if OP isn't, I am now any chance you got a link pham-bro?
Oh, nm, it's pay what you want on drivethrurpg atm.
It's pretty fun, although systemwise some of the maths is faulty. Random bioform generation is weighed oddly and some stunts don't balance with stunts on the very same page.
I handwave shit like that anyway. I barely use rules, I just bullshit everything for maximum rule of cool.
>race is evil
Why not use species then?
Dude, that's bigoted. Bioform is a social construct anyway.
It wasn't very good, it's just nostalgia.
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Wasn't the a game called Cartoon Action Hour or something which was kind of a meta take on the whole genre?
This reminds me, found a D&D arcade, Tower of Doom was the name I think. Think I'll go haul my ass there and play.
Patrician taste, desu.
s and 90s cartoon and video game fantasy was the tits, Veeky Forums. He-Man, Thundercats, D&D, even the Conan cartoon.
Actually setting asides they were pretty damn terrible shows. Due to laws on childern's shows and low budgets beside the awesome intros they were very disapointing.
Plus they were all carbon copies of each other with a stale story that never went anywhere besides "moral of the day" and the villains newest plan completely ruined.
>they were pretty damn terrible shows
>This is what millennials believe.
Considering most millenials watched 80s and 90s programming growing up, I'm not so sure...
Cartoon Action Hour.
>not mentioning Thundarr the Barbarian
>Random bioform generation is weighed oddly
You're not kidding. I tried rolling a character but there is no explanation for how a mutawarrior differs from a mutabeast.
Alright, I'm going to roll up, fluff and draw a character for MoU.
>3 +
>Cytyr
>cyborg centaur
Off to a good start, lads.
>mammals and birds
>dogs
Well, we can't win them all.
>A canine cyborg gladiator names Moorstar
I don't even. Time for race name and powers.
It's left up to your group: Mutant and Mutawarrior are probably Human+ (mutants more subtle divergence, mutawarriors probably more freakish), while mutabeasts are animals with human-bits. Mutants could be one off freaks, while Humanoid/Beastmen are true breeding.
Roll prefix on bioform name generator, roll suffix on Nation table.
>Kan-
>ons
The Kanons, a race of canine humanoid hunters. Moorstar was altered into a cybernetic killing machine by one of the Masters, but eventually rejected the brainwashing and was banished to the Combat Pits, entertaining the wretched masses of the Darklands, distracting them from their pathetic existence. There he waits, winning fight after fight, conquering one opponent after another, hoping for escape, for a chance at some greater purpose.
>Elemental control
Useful, potentially OP and I hate element magic.
That's all the details we need for our Umdarrian Kanon. I'll sketch up a pic as quick as I can.
>MUTAwarrior
>MUTAbeast
>How do they differ? Pic related.
Great system senpai.
Dog heads are tough to draw how do the furfags do it? Actually, nevermind, I don't want to know.
So we got a canine gladiator cyborg that can manipulate the elements. I was going for a Master of the Universe vibe but I think I ended up more in Biker Mice from Mars territory.
I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Well, ok. Just this once.
Perfection
Are you actually mad they say literally, that they have a preference and are going to use it in the game they wrote? They used the term bioform instead of species because it sounds cool you retard.
Thanks senpai. Seems like a cool system, I'd love to run a game but I have no group and I must scream
I'd join
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user, when you go out of your way to get offended at things, we call you tumblr.
Cartoon Action Hour. There was a kickstarter for a 3rd edition, but fuck if I know what happened with it.
It's out
>Written by a woman
Sure to be a quality product then.
Cartoon Action Hour: Season 3 is the third edition of the game that was nominated for "Best RPG" at the 2004 Origins Awards. The game faithfully and meticulously emulates the action-adventure cartoons of the 1980s, using "cartoon logic" as the basis for every aspect of the system. This is not just a universal game that just happens to be adorned with genre-appropriate art. Every single design decision was made with the purpose of bringing to life the retro-toons of yesteryear, right at your gaming table.
Everything you need to play Cartoon Action Hour is included in this full-color rulebook. Some of the features include:
Sleek and Exciting Game System: You roll a d12 and add one or two ratings to it. That's the core of the system, making it extremely easy to jump right into the animated fray. Every nuance of the system (transformation, vehicles, playsets, etc.) utilize the same game mechanics as a whole.
Action Scenes: In Cartoon Action Hour, there is no "combat system". In its place is the "action scene" system, which covers far more than just a slugfest or a laser-filled shootout. Violence is de-emphasized and players are rewarded for making indirect attacks of a less overt nature ("I shoot the tree branch, so that it falls on top of the enemy!"). Characters can be given Setback Tokens, representing anything from physical damage to confusion and everything in between.
Series Creation: The GM and the players work together to construct the series via the series creation system, which includes character creation. Speaking of which, creating characters has never been this easy in previous versions of the game, as the bookkeeping is now very minimal indeed.
>Sure to be a quality product then.
Only one way to find out pham
mediafire.com
Thundarr was pretty decent though, all things considered.
This.
There sure is! It's my favourite RPG that I've never got to play or run, but I love its dumb goofy nonsense so darn much.
The KS campaign did pretty well - it was just to pay all the artists, but they smashed their goal in good time.
I grew up on that stuff. Turned 41 yesterday, feels good though.
Dont forget Silverhawks.
After playing Umdaar for a bit, I was trying to capture something more along the lines of GI Joe -meets- M.A.S.K.
I used to collect Joes, but my only exposure to M.A.S.K. was my buddies epic toy collection. Joe inspiration was easy to come by in the form of comics and Resolute, but M.A.S.K. seems a bit outside collector edition toys.
So I found a torrent and tried watching the M.A.S.K. show and it was fucking awful. I only got through the first 8.
I tried getting second hand nostalgia off a podcast by die-hard fans and it was some of the most-depressing shit I ever heard as these guys tried to rewatch something from their childhood and the reality was killing their nostalgia.
Also kinda hard to be angry about womens attire when the men are wear just as little.
At this point, the number of people who are "ironically" getting mad at things is probably greater than the number of people who actually get mad at things.
41 here too. Don't listen to this man, forget Silverhawks.
First two editions are by CCM and they're okay. Playable, an eye for how Saturday Morning cartoons actually worked in the 80s, she seems to know her shit. Thing is, she did not write the third and current edition but that is when the game really seems to find its voice.
Leotards? Try bikinis
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Jesus that sounds great
Anyone got a download link
I always liked the Horde more than Skeletor's team. I enjoyed the idea of an antagonistic third-party faction. Even though their base wasn't as impressive, that tunnel snake was the shit.
Who's best, Teela or Cheetara?
ThunderCats never aired in my market so I pick Teela.
scroll up
The Horde is pretty cool
Its a shame the 2003 He-Man series never got a third season as Hordak was supposed to be introduced in the first episode
Though the comics series do continue that story line
Hordak was already introduced in the second season, he just hadn't been freed from the interdimensional prison where King Grayskull sent him.
They're both pretty good.
10/10 would play
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!!!!!!
>Also what is it with oldschool fantasy and kickass women in leotards?
Stupid fanservice. No really. They wanted to kickstart puberty in young boys and more realistic female characters would not do it.
How should one go to crate a setting/fluff with the same flavor as those shows?
Did you read the Cartoon Action Hour pdf posted in this thread
Silverhawks aged like milk. Still plenty of good options.
You know he didn't.
>aged like milk
pasteurized or unpasteurized?
Hey what the hell man? I thought we were nostalgia-ing here.
Fuck that. My nostalgia recoils at Silverhawks or Blackstar.
>leotard
They're called swimsuit armor and they're retarded
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I've just remembered how Veeky Forums once came up with its own setting for Cartoon Action Hour, and Cynthia Celeste Miller actually stopped by that thread to congratulate everyone involved.
Good times.
archive pls
What was it?
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Once ran a Mutants&Masterminds campaign that was inspired by He-Man and Thundercats this weird Science Fantasy setting with Sci-Sorcery and monsters and the occasional cat man
Does anyone have the full PDF of this? Looks like an interesting read.
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All you Thundarrfags might enjoy this
this pic is wrong. Evil-Lyn has white hair
>try to read the DC MOTU comic
>it's retardedly edgy and "adult"
Fuck cynical adults so much.
Try the Image comics they are based on the 2003 series and maintains a more cartoony feel
Great doc user just wish it was longer
desustorage.org
Looks like it wasn't SPECIFICALLY for her RPG, but it was cool of her to pop by
Yyyyeah, I love Keith Giffen and all, but he's not the best fit. Still, the Orko one-shot was pretty funny.
>They used the term bioform instead of species because it sounds cool you retard.
It doesn't sound cool. In fact, it sounds quite retarded. Any made-up words for things that already have perfectly valid normal English words are retarded.
>but it was cool of her to pop by
You gotta wonder how she came across the thread. Was she just googling to see if anyone had said anything about her game recently? Unless she just browses Veeky Forums...
Making an educated guess, I'd suggest that she was told about it by somebody she knows who was lurking and said "You should read this".
>Yyyyeah, I love Keith Giffen and all, but he's not the best fit. Still, the Orko one-shot was pretty funny.
Because it was still a lighthearted romp. Heck, the Jack Kirby-esque Hordak one-shot was cool too. But the main comic tried so extremely hard to be this adult, hardcore take on MOTU that it just became cringey. Oh and the fanservice, jesus. Teela had a cute and sexy outfit back in the day, but in this one they slap her in a straight up bikini and have her pose in every panel, same with Sorceress and Adora.
>You are NOT allowed to create some atmosphere
>You HAVE TO use a generic vocabulary
>REEEEEEEE
Like I said, Giffen's "take a not-so-affectionate swipe at something goofy" attitude only works in certain books. I wanted to give his stuff a shot, but he just didn't "get" it. They'd have been better off getting Jeff Parker or Paul Tobin.
Anyone else want in on this if user's willing to run?
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>there was a Prince Valiant RPG
>there were TWO Usagi Yojimbo RPGs
>there was a fucking Rocky & Bullwinkle RPG
Icons Assembled, the expanded/second edition is on Bundle of Holding right now. (M&M 3rd and maybe 2nd have also been bundled previously and may return in the future, as have Godlike/Wild Talents, Brave New World and Starblazer Adventures and Atomic Robo.)
An Aberrant RPG Bundle is also probably on the cards, maybe to coincide with or drum up support for the next edition's kickstarter campaign.
MWP announced they are developing a generic Cortex Heroic and Cortex Action release to be kickstarted sometime in the next year.