Anyone playing Metabarons?

[Nahualt]

Hi, new here but huge WEG and D6 Fan.

So I am gonna start a small Metabarons campaign, anyone know any good online resources?

[skeloric]

Specific issues of Heavy Metal (illustrate fantasy magazine) where English translations of the story appeared.
Beyond that -- you will need to learn French, unfortunately.

[kellhound]

Or Spanish.
It was published here in hardcover album format. Don't know how many issues it has, though.

[skeloric]

I do know that there was the core in English and maybe one sourcebook.

I did since do a search and located these:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/metabaronsrpg/
The_Metabarons:_Companion_to_the_Metabarons_Rpg (http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-9839013-1168104?asin=1930753519&afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&lnm=1930753519|The_Metabarons:_Companion_to_the_Me tabarons_Rpg_:_Books&ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060)
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=2373
Metabarons: Companion to the Metabarons RPG (http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Metabarons%3A%20Companion%20to%20the%20Metabaron s%20Rpg:3001316088;_ylc=X3oDMTB1c21tcDhkBF9TAzk2Nj MyOTA3BHNlYwNmZWVkBHNsawNib29rcw--)
OK, some of these look like the same book at different locations...

Unfortunately, I have strong reason to believe that the RPG was originally in French and translated during the development phase itself to English.
There was talk of close to a half dozen French RPG sourcebooks versus the single English sourcebook as the game was more successful there.
It was of them I was referring by my statement.

[kellhound]

I was actually talking about the comic :D
Game was not translated.

[Havard]

I remember picking up the game when it first came out. I was really excited about a new game coming out from WEG and with the D6 rules no less. The illustrations blew me away. This was amazing.

But reading the book, I found that I didnt really get what the setting was all about, or what kind of adventures I could run with this game.

So I went out and picked up the comic books. Sadly, they completely turned me off the setting. :(

Havard

[skeloric]

The setting is very Andrei Rublev (particular in the brutal scene where a "Prince" decides that nobody should ever have a castle as fine as his so has all the workers blinded) and very Eastern European where Atrocities are deemed virtuous.

[Havard]

The setting is very Andrei Rublev (particular in the brutal scene where a "Prince" decides that nobody should ever have a castle as fine as his so has all the workers blinded) and very Eastern European where Atrocities are deemed virtuous.


Interesting. I guess when I came to the game looking for a new Star Wars I was bound to be disappointed, eh? :rolleyes:

Havard

[skeloric]

Interesting. I guess when I came to the game looking for a new Star Wars I was bound to be disappointed, eh? :rolleyes:

Havard

Yeah.
However, it is a fine (if very dark) sort of setting.