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  • Re: Which Game Uses the d34?

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Mon Jan 23 18:09:55 2023
    On Friday, December 27, 2013 at 2:43:47 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Friday, December 27, 2013 2:36:09 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
    Still looking, turned up "Realms of Adventure", an RPG on DriveThruGames that
    uses the d34 as intended. Also, several games (i.e. Boot Hill) use percentile
    dice to generate character statistics - so 3d34-2 is something players on their
    own might have decided to use to make the statistics behave more like what they
    were familiar with from 3d6 in the d20 world.

    The name Realms of Adventure has been used for several different things. The game I meant is the one by James Patrick Updike.

    Looking into these matters once again, I have found that the web site

    www.realmofdreams.com

    no longer exists, this domain being parked.

    Copies of the game are still being sold by DriveThruRPG, so I _suppose_ they must know
    where to send James Patrick Updike's royalties to...

    but does anyone else know what's happened to him?

    Of course, I can guess that his game was not successful enough, and so he has...
    returned to his day job, as it were, but does he still have a presence somewhere
    where he might be reached?

    I've finally figured out a reasonable way to play the game if you don't have a d34.

    Roll *five* d100s, and take the number on the one in the middle.

    John Savard

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  • From Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Tue Jan 24 10:09:58 2023
    Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in news:19db2e4c-4940-4df4-b649-35d0885a4253n@googlegroups.com:

    On Friday, December 27, 2013 at 2:43:47 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc
    wrote:

    Ten year old post, by *you*.

    --
    Terry Austin

    "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

    Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha on Tue Jan 24 12:10:05 2023
    On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 11:10:00 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

    Ten year old post, by *you*.

    I had something new to say about Realms of Adventure, so why not
    make other associated information visible again?

    John Savard

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Tue Jan 24 12:15:58 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:09:56 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

    Looking into these matters once again, I have found that the web site

    www.realmofdreams.com

    no longer exists, this domain being parked.

    I tried the Wayback Machine, and I ended up finding his personal site,
    but when I drilled down into the pages about the game, those weren't
    archived!

    John Savard

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  • From Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Tue Jan 24 15:41:22 2023
    Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in news:3509b7a9-16bd-4f30-81bc-dcfe0e9b7e19n@googlegroups.com:

    On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 11:10:00 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula
    Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

    Ten year old post, by *you*.

    I had something new to say about Realms of Adventure, so why not
    make other associated information visible again?

    Nobody cared then, and there's even fewer noboies to not care now.

    --
    Terry Austin

    "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

    Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha on Tue Jan 24 21:22:22 2023
    On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 4:41:25 PM UTC-7, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

    Nobody cared then, and there's even fewer noboies to not care now.

    Regrettably, I cannot dispute what you intended to say there.

    Of course, if nobody did _not_ care, that would mean that everyone cares!

    Which is just backwards phrasing by accident. Obviously not everyone
    cares about 3d34. There are even people who don't care about Russia's
    invasion of Ukraine, like the leadership of South Africa.

    John Savard

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  • From kyonshi@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Wed Jan 25 12:11:46 2023
    On 24/01/2023 21:15, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:09:56 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

    Looking into these matters once again, I have found that the web site

    www.realmofdreams.com

    no longer exists, this domain being parked.

    I tried the Wayback Machine, and I ended up finding his personal site,
    but when I drilled down into the pages about the game, those weren't archived!

    John Savard

    I guess he bothered to set it so wayback machine ignored his page. which
    some people find reasonable to do. (not me, but it's a sentiment that
    exists)

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