Recent content by King of Old School

Okay, the point seems to be sailing over your head like a F-18 on full afterburner, so I'm going to break it down into little chunks and hopefully that will help. * Dancey claimed that the OGL would allow the D&D ruleset to improve because WotC could take the best of the open rules and...

First, you're missing the point that these incorporations have absolutely nothing to do with the OGL and would have happened regardless, just as D&D 3.0 used stuff from non-OGL games. Second, name one thing from UA that was generated by a third-party producer and was incorporated into the main...

You must be using a very different definition of "hit" from the one found in the dictionary. Looking at the predictions here, I don't see a single hit that's relevant to RPGs (you were right about year-end layoffs at Upper Deck, which in modern business is about as insightful as predicting the...

Clearly, the people who run WotC don't agree with Monte. WotC has not included refinements from other games into D&D -- there is not one single element of the SRD that has been lifted from other companies' OGC. Likewise, there is no WotC-produced D&D book that uses other companies' OGC except...

He was wrong about Organized Play. He was wrong about Rolling Thunder. He was wrong about the OGL leading to refinement of the D&D rules (Wizards has flatly refused to incorporate anyone else's developments into D&D). He was wrong that the OGL/STL would arrest the decline of the RPG...

I am really excited about Pathfinder. I have been hoping for a Pathfinder-type RPG from Paizo for years. I will certainly be buying it when it hits the shelves (something that is not true of 4e, although I will buy the 3 cores eventually). That said... When Pathfinder completely and utterly...

FWIW, both Stan! and Rich Redman have stated that d20M sold decently well, about as well as SW-RCR and better (in the pre-GURPS4e/NWoD era) than any other modern-era RPG. It wasn't a commercial failure, unless you're holding it to a D&D standard of sales; unfortunately, that's the standard that...

Given their inability to get products out in anything like a timely fashion, I can't help but wish that the Crafty guys would actually stick to supporting their stated core audience (i.e. people who want "d20 tuned for modern action gaming") and get previously announced stuff like Farthest Star...

I think SECR is absolutely wonderful and it totally has me jonesing for SW in general! As others have said, the SW universe is absolutely huge in terms of both time and space, so canon doesn't need to be a problem unless your PCs insist on being the ones who bring down the Empire. But...

No Legacy for me -- I'm of the opinion that Legacy and NJO aren't terribly SW in feel, and I also agree with wingsandsword that Legacy reads like mediocre fanfic. I pretty much ignore everything after the Thrawn trilogy. I'm currently trying to decide between the following eras: * The classic...

I'm pretty sure Pagan Priest was being sarcastic. At least, I really hope so... KoOS

Saga Edition is wonderful I really have very little of substance to add. I just wanted to say that I am very very happy with my new copy of the SECR. It's a physically beautiful work, the best looking SWRPG book by far IMO, and it reads really nicely. I am an enthusiastic supporter of all...

Apparently there will be a forthcoming Changing Breeds (i.e. non-wolf weres) sourcebook for NWoD, penned by ex-Mage developer Phil Brucato among others, but no date has been announced. KoOS

It's about 8.5" x 8.5", not 11" x 11". KoOS

None of those products have ever been standalone games... unlike Gamma World for most of its decades-old existence. KoOS