Thread 96883422

Sup /tg/. I come here tonight to present you with The Realm of Yolmi.

I first learned about this book years ago while reading the Critonomicon thread on one of the arhives, from this post >>24433917.
>I hate to break this to you, OP but this is not the true RPG hunt.

>The true all consuming RPG hunt, is the hunt for an intact copy of Realm of Yolmi. This fabled book has gained near legendary status as one of the strangest RPGs ever written. As far as I know, there are no scans. When it came out in 1977, the book had a very small circulation and seeing as it was printed literally on printer paper and bound with plastic rings it should come as no small surprise that very few copies have survived.
I chalked it up as a neat little oddity, set an ebay alert, and forgot about it. Just last year a seller with an intact copy posted a listing there, then I shat bricks as I remembered what the hell I was looking at. I managed to be the lucky soul to buy it from him, and then I proceeded to be a piece of shit as I procrastinated fixing my printer and scanning it.

Today I finally took 30 minutes to finally troubleshoot my printer, and then spent the next few hours in between handing out candy digitizing this old tome. Did a page check of the PDF and found pages I was missing, also finding out that the book skips page 32 due to a typo, going straight from page 31 to page 33. Regardless, here is the complete work as a searchable PDF for your amusement and bewilderment. The text may not be entirely accurate due to OCR errors. I'll mirror it on the Internet Archive shortly.

https://files.catbox.moe/nlvjpv.pdf
Happy Halloween, /tg/.

>>96883422 (OP)
Thanks anon. I've never heard of this before, but you're a real one for making it available. Thank you, king.

Ah yes, the archetypal classes of every good sci-fi RPG
>soldier
>scientist
>fly-catcher
And the elite branch of fly-catchers are also psychics.

>>96883422 (OP)
Dear diary, today OP was a pretty cool guy.

>>96883422 (OP)
>procrastinated a year to fix [device]
>took 30 minutes
this is so real it hurts

Some interesting monsters in this book.

>>96883422 (OP)
Based thank you king

>>96883617
Weird autofellator gorillas for scifi aliens yessiree

>>96883422 (OP)
Huh.

That's pretty damned based, OP.

>>96883422 (OP)
Thanks a bunch, anon!
>The text may not be entirely accurate due to OCR errors.
Mind uploading an actual scan? As convenient as an OCR version is, it doesn't really count as one, no way to tell if the errors came from the source or the OCR when the source is so rare.

Thank you

>>96883422 (OP)
very odd little book, awesome to see stuff like this made available

>>96883422 (OP)
How do I know this isn’t an elaborate fake?

>>96883937
How do I know you're not an elaborate fake?

>>96883422 (OP)
Thanks, anon. Made my day.

>>96883422 (OP)
you re the best anon.

Internet Archive Mirror: https://archive.org/details/the-realm-of-yolmi. The viewer is really good for it since it displays as a two-page document that automatically separates the first and last pages front and back covers, which makes it feel like you're reading the original ring-bound book.

Also it turns out that Internet Archive automatically converted it into some jpgs, which means I can now "storytime" it ITT. Super neat since I didn't want to figure out how to do that on my own, especially if it meant downloading random programs.

>>96883937
It'd be pretty strange to hoax such an obscure old book, but I suppose weirder things have happened. I could drop a link to the ebay listing if you'd like since that's still up, but it looks like at some point ebay changed how they handle archived listings and no longer retain item descriptions. Bummer.

For now here's the disassembled book, my printer, the piece of paper I wrote the note in, and some leftover halloween candy I didn't hand out.

>>96883422 (OP)
Hmm, turns out the jp2 file extension Internet Archive convert their pdfs to isn't just a renamed jpg, nor is it supported by 4chan, so I had to download a program to convert everything anyway.

Well, book dump/"storytime" I guess.

>>96885129
fuck

>>96883422 (OP)
You are an emperor among men.

>>96885442
halfway there

>>96885985
<3

>>96885994
The end.

>>96884927
>Ken Black
>Marshal Rose
>John Williams
>Glen Wilson
do most americans really have such npc sounding names? It's always either this or something derpy like
>Derek Deloe
>Tim Dermody
>Randy Van Ranken

>>96885994
I like your writing anon

Wonder if I'll ever get to run a oneshot in this system as a joke.

>>96886022
In Japanese works, when a name is needed for an American, the first consonants are often switched around to make them more interesting. I can't cite an example off the top of my head but I've seen that a number of times.

>Blen Kack
>Rarshal Mose
>Wohn Jilliams
>Wen Gilson

I like the feel of these personally.

>>96883422 (OP)
What a cool guy

>>96886057
honestly, how the fuck are the japanese supposed to pronounce these?
They definitely sound made up but in a funny kids way which is good i guess
This just reminded me that once in uni, me and a group of friends when drunk decided to do something similar and cut our fist and last names in half switch them and paste them together and the result was hilarious

>>96884988
>At all times game balance should be maintained
Early RPGs are so quaint, it's adorable

The monsters are pretty awesome though, I especially like the politicians entry. Might use some of these in my current gonzo plane-hopping game.

>>96886057
Spoonism wobbly prerks wust as gel over there as it uz for duss.

>>96883422 (OP)
Thanks and nice repeating digits. It is always good to see Anon delivering.

So, why are they called fly-catchers?

>>96886837
>Fly-catchers are a special group of Adventurers. They may use any
>type of defensive armor but are linited to the weapons they use.
>They may not use any weapon that shoots any kind of projectile, but
>are allowed to use Type 11 Offensive Technological Weapons and
>above. Their prime requisite is Wit. Once every day, per level, a
>Fly-catcher may use his Fly-.charm on a creature of the FlyLc.lass.
>If successful, it affects I-10 flies. They will do anything he
>ccmnands , short of self-destruction

However stay vigilant. From the air alone, you are assaulted by terrible monsters such as Aeni, Alaab, Aliflids, Bomb, Calgrit, Caser, Dealk, Deleng, Doop, Drign, Drung, Eebs, Farm, Filg, Gilp, Hipid, Hitel, Krip, Larng, Lreb, Merkle, Nugg, Oput, Pakelf, Parsep, Pfuten, Phran, Puccu, Raif, Shapo, Srabe, Tanana, Tasem, Terric, Ulobe and Zenz.

>>96884919
Maybe it's what you used already, but friendly advice for being a cool OP: ImageMagick is by far the best way to do things like mass file format conversions. It takes a little learning since it's a command-line program for Linux nerds but it can automate more complicated operations than anything else and finishes in seconds.

>>96887210
>It takes a little learning since it's a command-line program for Linux nerds
Every time I get the brave idea that not all modern UI/UX designers are subhuman trash, I get punished for it almost instantly. As I age I grow more and more convinced that text terminal is the pinnacle of UI and it was all downhill from there.

>>96886057
>>96886022

>>96884919
>the jp2 file extension
Ah yes, JPEG2000, an extension of JPEG beloved of serious libraries for archival work (because it compresses really small in non-lossy mode). Not popular elsewhere because it was patent-encumbered for years, and is expensive to encode and (to a lesser extent) decode.

Oh mama

>>96888565
Does he mean count or age

>>96888565
child characters lmao

>>96888565
>>96888619
You suffer from a condition. Please seek help.
>>96888586
>Although the number of players may vary from one to twenty, each and every game requires a Referee, for he is the person who moderates the games, sets up the campaign, and so on.

>>96887544
>Sernandez and Bonzalez
That Japanese game designer should have just done all the names in this chicano type

>>96887818
nice to know I can still count on /tg/ to tell me the really obscure shit

>>96883422 (OP)
dear OP: you're a saint, a good man, and you put in more effort than we deserve or expect nowadays. Thanks.

>>96888650
Sernandez is apparently a real name, can't be very common though

Today OP was a pretty cool guy.

>>96883422 (OP)
Anon you are so fucking lucky, not only did you get the rarest rpg of all but you got an intact copy. Massive respect. I'm the anon who bought a copy of Dawnfire from the sharethread and I got it scanned, been procrastinating making a thread about it but you've inspired me now

Thanks for preventing this from drifting into obscurity. For that alone I think you're a really great person.

>>96885417
Holy shit, this is a better Pratchett rpg than the official Discworld one

>>96890530
What stops the hobnob in the bomb factory from blowing himself with the rest of the crew?

>>96890626
Common decency.

What's the word for something like this, that's so old and so separated from what might be called the "norms" of such things that it is unashamedly weird and cringe, but in a good way? Where the writers would commit what we now call literary or mechanical sins, yet do so innocently?

>>96884958
>Don't Look Up, 1977 edition

>how did they know

>>96886022
Winning the mass media war for the last century has the consequence names sounding generic.

>>96890794
Wholesome Iconoclasm?

>>96890626
We need a Hobnob supplement.

>>96891109
>>96890626
They wouldn't deny this from other hobnobs.
I can easily imagine a Hobnob hall of fame with the most catastrophic suicides

>>96890794
anachronism

>>96890794
Outsider art?

>>96885343
>Military: Extremely fierce and regulatory. They "go by the book" which, unfortunately is "Mein Kampf."
Kek

>>96884951
TRACED from LBB

>>96884962
>3d8
Aside from that quite Greyhawk-y

>>96885110
This really is just OD&D with a slightly weirder setting and some mechanical quirks

>>96885155
And here we see the double-damage natty twenny in one of its earliest iterations

>>96886179
ブレン・カック
ラーシャル・モーズ
ウォン・ジリアムズ
ウェン・ギルソン

I'm bumping this because there's too much garbage on the board

>>96883422 (OP)
thanks. Putting a link in the sharethread so that more persons may pick it up.

>>96883422 (OP)
OP, you're the real knigga. Thanks!

>>96887544
Tag yourselves, I'm Dwigt Rortugal

>>96887544
>>96896118
Todd Bonzalez here

>>96883422 (OP)
Does this not apply to the player soldiers as well? A soldier can rank up to Reichmarshall after all. Is this a post Man in the High Castle apocalypse?

>>96887544
>>96896118
Bobson Dugnutt, reporting in

"Okay I'm a Soldier, with guns and armor keeping everyone safe!"
"I'll be the Scientist who will help advance our society!"
"Wait that means I'm the Fly-Catcher, what the fuck is a Fly-Catcher?"
Thanks OP btw

>>96883422 (OP)
Thank you, OP

So for combat, you want to roll under the target number right?

>>96890530
this is what gemini-sloppa Hobnob looks like

I direct the flies to sting the darkness

>>96883422 (OP)
>"An adventurer may be either male or female"
i like this game from simple and better times

>>96900314
thanks, this is really bad