good russian games ?

[Lucy Ashton]

hello !

as my (quite) bad english shows, I'm a french RPG player, and I read/understand a little russian. In France, we have a lot of american games, a lot of french ones, and very few "others", but no russian !

so, I ask for help : if you can advice me russian games (down in the topic or in private message), commercial games and also non-commercial (rpg-a with "a" for "amateur" , любитель (thanks g**gle translation), and if possible, a ling for the page of presentation, or a link for downloading ......

and if you want to learn more about french players, do not hesitate  !

 
Lucy Ashton

[Chronicler]

savaged.ru — Arrrgh conversion for Savage Worlds. True Indie Game.
http://www.o-s-a.ru/ — teen game

Also you can find some games here http://makerpg.ru/archive/indie-games-ru/ and games & scenarios here http://makerpg.ru/archive/rpg-kashevar/ there are some cool free games as http://makerpg.ru/archive/rpg-kashevar/2009/mupolis.zip (one of the best).
Also I want to point you for this theme http://rpg-world.org/index.php/topic,3738.0.html

I'm in love with French edition of Unknown Armies and Trail of Cthulhu. Are they popular in France?

P.S. And I'm going to buy Qin, I find it is the best oriental game, I know.

ADDED: There are commercial tanslations of Savage Worlds & Fiasco in Russian. And there is only one Russian developed commercial game — shitty gritty Age of Aquarius (Эра Водолея) 2.

[Redwan]

Are you asking only about rp games or are you also asking about board games?

[Lucy Ashton]

thank you ! I will go and see that.

about QIN : very good game. chinese world, like the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". you will enjoy it, certainely ! (somehow, you will perhaps need to complete this book by reading chinese mythologie)

if you like such games, or cross-over games, it may be possible with 7th sea( europe, but the magic is not well treated to my mind, but the game is still good), Burning sands (oriental/arabian world), Five rings (japan-like, with samurai, bushido ...)


Unknown Armies and Trail of Cthulhu are not french games, but translations.


Unknown Armies edited first by the american Atlas Games and then the french translation by Le Septième Cercle
UA is popular, of course, especially when it was edited (like every new game); and the great Ancient Cthulhu is still popular too, especially now, with the new edition of the game in 20 books or something like that (Call of Cthulhu 30th anniversary edition (2011)).
by the way : CthulhuTech sounds great ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CthulhuTech
and Delta Green not bad also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Green
cocerning systems, I prefer Chaosium system (more intuition, more simple ...) than 20dice system (less adapted to this particolar game).

among games edited by Le Septième Cercle (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Septi%C3%A8me_Cercle), I tried :
- Sable rouge (french game) (=red sand), inspired by Ph k Dick, Ghosts of mars... among others. I do not thing it has been translated (if you have a french-speaker, you may try)
- KULT (swedish horror game, that I really like) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kult
- Little Fears : you play small children, horror game
- read a bit Capharnaüm : not very good, Burning sands is far better

well, well .... I will look for russian  creations ! 

[Lucy Ashton]

Are you asking only about rp games or are you also asking about board games?

RP games !
 

[ballkrusher]

C'est toujours cool de rencontrer un gamer Français, en particulier quelqu'un qui s'interesse de JdR Russes! Et votre Anglais est OK!

[Chronicler]

Unknown Armies and Trail of Cthulhu are not french games, but translations.

Yeh, I know, I'm asking about their popularity in France. =)
Is there any English translation of Capharnaüm?
ADDED. I'm big fan of Philip K. Dick, but my French is terrible (I've studied it for two years back in school), so Sable rouge is out of my capabilities. =(
ADDED2. Also you may be interested by exclusive Russian Fiasco playsets (cyberpunk, fairy tales as ex.): http://studio101.ru/news/fiasco/playsets/

C'est toujours cool de rencontrer un gamer Français, en particulier quelqu'un qui s'interesse de JdR Russes! Et votre Anglais est OK!

Je ne comprends pas, could you please use international English или русский язык, раз топикстартер его вполне читает? 
P.S. А английский действительно вполне нормальный и читаемый. =)

[Green_eyes]

Да ну, на таком уровне и французский читается (=

[Minder]

While we are talking about French games, have you ever tried Pavillion Noir? And if you had, whats your impressions about it? I have heard that it has one of the most realistic fencing systems, is it true?

[Lucy Ashton]

C'est toujours cool de rencontrer un gamer Français, en particulier quelqu'un qui s'interesse de JdR Russes! Et votre Anglais est OK!

merci ! c'est toujours cool de croiser quelqu'un qui parle la langue du camembert/baguette/croissant de chez la france 
thank you ! it is cool to meet somebody chatting french 

and I agree with Chronicler : english is a sort or "international" web langage (bu i also read russain with some dictionnary, so those who do not practice (or do not want ) english can write in russian)

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I'm big fan of Philip K. Dick, but my French is terrible (I've studied it for two years back in school), so Sable rouge is out of my capabilities. =(
Great writer !!!!
we created with my husband an unofficial rpgame (in french, of course) based on his stories and in his universe (especially The Man in the High Castle) (if needed, i can give you a link to our site, the game can be downloaded free)
 about Sable rouge, I do not think an english translation exists , unfortunately :-(

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Unknown Armies and Trail of Cthulhu
are popular in France. they are often in the top5 or the top 10 of the favorite games. and, talking popularity, as I notices here, d&d (all versions), warhammer and world of darkness 1 and 2 are very popular too...

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Is there any English translation of Capharnaüm?

I do not think so. you can ash the authors ? (http://deadcrows.net/v2/content/view/13/39/  )  or 7Cercle http://www.7emecercle.com/ 
but if you search for arabian/oriental game, Burning Sands is far better, and it does exist in english. here is the link to french page  (but the game is edited in english)
http://www.legrog.org/jeux/legendes-des-terres-brulees/legend-of-the-burning-sands-en

(by the way, le GROG gives a brief and clear information about every (official and commercial, but also non-commercial jdra) game edited in France. do you have an equivalent for russian games? )

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Also you may be interested by exclusive Russian Fiasco playsets (cyberpunk, fairy tales as ex.)

Absolutely !
I try to find if there is something to find on the web, but I saw that Studio101 has licences, books have to be bought, and no purchase outside Russia :-(

if ever you have something "free" .......?

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While we are talking about French games, have you ever tried Pavillion Noir? And if you had, whats your impressions about it? I have heard that it has one of the most realistic fencing systems, is it true?

never played by myself, but some of my friends are fan of.  this game is said to be the best about the piratery and the system is clear and quite simple. the background is well-documented and precise.
if ever you have the possibility to play, and if you like navy battles, piratery, epic style, do not hesitate and play 

[Helcanare]

Absolutely !
I try to find if there is something to find on the web, but I saw that Studio101 has licences, books have to be bought, and no purchase outside Russia :-(

if ever you have something "free" .......?

Here they are http://studio101.ru/news/fiasco/playsets/

[Chronicler]

I try to find if there is something to find on the web, but I saw that Studio101 has licences, books have to be bought, and no purchase outside Russia :-(

But we have! You can see free PDFs by the Helcanore's link. And we HAVE shipping outside Russia.

[Abash]

Several old-school Russian amateur systems:
http://dragontower.ru/ "World of the Great Dragon" A generic system with both fantasy and modern versions.

http://rpg.nsk.ru/sintary/treilers/index.htm "Red blood of Ecumene" - a space opera/diesel punk setting for 1920-s and "Terra libre" - spy thriller/ social drama for 1950-s with home-brewed systems amoung other settings.

http://lavikandia.ru/   "Lavikandia" - a chineese-style oriental setting for gritty adventures of furry detectives in an empire ruled by  bureaucrats and traditions with simple rpg-system. Carefull: it's really big.

http://www.salveblues.ru/list/adventures.html Bunch of adventures for different systems and in differen styles in Russian.

[baltazar-666]

It was a real challenge for me to remember the title of that game and to find working link for it:

http://www.rpg-awards.ru/saved/bestgame2009/GODZ_v2_1.pdf