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So, I really enjoy Modiphius's Star Trek Adventures RPG, and I love the gorgeous core rulebook. However, as was detailed here in a couple threads when the book first came out, there were a lot of typos and mistakes that needed correcting in the first edition. Also, my pre-ordered book had a...

Truthfully, I only know some of them. WOIN stands for “What’s OLD is NEW,” which is a lovely pun used as the general name for the generic system that Morrus designed. OLD is the fantasy incarnation of WOIN, NEW is the sci-fi version, and NOW is the modern/contemporary equivalent. Despite OLD...

Excellent news! I look forward to it.

That would make me very happy. I’d pick up a handful of them for table copies at that price.

Looks good! Any plans to do a similar digest book for O.L.D.?

Well, if you're interested to see how other folks have done it, several people have done various write-ups of the characters over on the Modiphius boards. A couple of general suggestions based on your remarks: (1) Actually, languages and communication fall more under command than engineering...

Leaving semantics aside for moment, I really am trying to understand what you wrote. You corrected Lyle and me that you didn't mean "all gamers," and you corrected me to say that it was not your implication that "gamer" would refer only to the subset of gamers I described above. So my question...

Then, in the interests of clarity, would you mind explaining what you meant? If you weren't implying "all gamers" and you weren't using the term "gamers" to specifically refer only to people who like to min-max or dungeon crawl, I have no idea what your original post is arguing.

So then your implication is....if you don't like min-maxing or kicking-down-the-door style you're not a "gamer"? (Or heck, even exclusively like. Because I play games like that and enjoy them AND I also enjoy playing Star Trek.) If your argument is that you are not a true gamer unless you play...

I disagree with that statement on a couple of fronts. First, there is no such thing as a game that will appeal to all players, not even D&D. That's why there are so many different systems on the market today. Heck, the second-ever RPG, Tunnels and Trolls, came about because Ken St. Andre saw...

I'm not trying to delve back into the "snowball" thing yet again, but throwing 4-5 dice at a difficulty 2 is a huge waste of resources unless that difficulty 2 task was some kind of "must succeed" test that prevented them from otherwise advancing in the adventure. One extra die and/or an assist...

Heh, I like it, but I have no idea what the recipe for virtual gunpowder would be. Also, does that make Morrus a Metron?

2d roll IS a normal roll. That's the default unless you choose to buy more dice. If most players you've seen choose to spend their limited resources to buy extra dice on nearly every roll, including rolls that are of little consequence and rolls that should be a fairly easy success anyway...

Right. Rolling a 20 is 5%. Rolling a 1 is 5%. So rolling a 1 or a 20 is 10%. That's what I was trying to get at. Getting a complication at 9.5% means you're less likely to get a complication than you are rolling a crit OR automatic miss in D&D. (Right? I doubt my math skills now. It's a...