Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

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Re: Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Wed May 07, 2025 4:49 pm

"What's de problem, Polly,", dem Cyclopses said. "Dat yo bein' a real nigga in de dead o night? Can't a brutha get some sleep?"

But Polly be shoutin' at dem from inside his block "Nobody's lynchin' me."

"Are you fo real, nigga?!"

Lasers & Feelings
Do I even want to know?
It's harmless. Just some Star-Trek-inspired RPG so barebones it makes Risus look like Phoenix Command. The autism mostly comes from every dipshit on itch.io making their own hacks because the rules barely even exist.
Lasers & Feelings in a nutshellShow
Basically everything you could possibly do in the game is filed under one of two general categories, like "Lasers" and "Feelings", or whatever quirky other group the various hacks have come up with.

Whenever you try something, you roll a d6 and have to either try to roll high or low, depending on which category your action falls under. This is where you only real stat comes into a play: a number from 2 to 5 that tells you where exactly on the die one category ends and the other starts. If you roll this number exactly you score a critical hit, which usually has a cutesy name (like "Laser Feelings" in the OG version).

In the OG Lasers & Feelings, "Lasers" stands for science and rational stuff, whereas "Feelings" are everything else. Your stat number effective determines where on the Kirk-to-Spock spectrum your character is.

There's some other shit like picking your role/class or whatever, but all this does is maybe let you roll extra dice if the GM thinks it's fitting for what you're trying to do.
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Re: Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

Post by wulfenlord » Thu May 08, 2025 1:49 pm

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote:
Tue Apr 22, 2025 6:11 am
You know, I wonder how many Dickstarters will use this opportunity for a stealth cancellation. There were a lot more honest projects that just ended when the Kung-Flu disrupted the China trade.
THQ cancelled their Gothic board game, and the alleged reason they gave was "sorry for not living up to expectations by not having a gameplay video at launch. We promise to do beter at a later time".

Absolutely laughable. It didn't even have stretch goals, it was a simple pay it or leave it campign.
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Re: Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Thu May 08, 2025 2:04 pm

>no gameplay video
It's a board game. You move around tokens on a board.
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