Recent content by smootrk

I had a 3e class that has vanished. Import process was apparently not complete.

BFRPG is my game of choice nowadays. I have written material that has become supplements for the game also. While it plays 'old school', it really is a good system where one can incorporate anything - truly anything one likes from any edition.. with ease. And after DMing for it, I cannot...

Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (classic d&d clone) is my favorite... done some writing for the system. I would love to get a classic Star Frontiers Alpha Dawn game going. old school for me

heh. It has been even longer for me. I swore off WotC since 4e announcement... I didn't even buy any of the last several 3e offerings (they were very weak anyhow).

You forgot to add the option that they will blame their next PR gaff on pesky Ninjas who are slipping in during the night and stealing all their best ideas... often to sell to pirates.

well I left WotC upon the announcement of 4e with the sole exception of a PHB for when I cannot find a game otherwise to participate in. My own tastes have moved back to roots, and so I use the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game system... which I must mention is absolutely freely downloadable as a...

Basic Fantasy RPG (Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game) is a worthy option. It is my favorite retro-inspired game... yet it includes some of the most intuitive improvements of the newer editions.... and so very easy to mod to suit your own ideas of how the game should be or include.

It effectively is the 1e AD&D rules stripped of the art and other copyright exclusive material. As far as I can tell, it is the full treatment, everything one might need to run a defacto AD&D 1e game. It was created so that the game could be played, and new material could be written without...

A setting that is based on and/or combines the elements of Aliens, Predator, and Terminator would be great for me. A Harry Potter setting (not the characters) would be great. Buckeroo Banzai and Big Trouble in Little China are just looking for the right rules. I would like to see Planescape...

Did anyone else see that OSRIC 2.0 got released today? OSRIC

and for what it is worth, at the very bottom edge of the Star Frontiersman | Magazine! page is a piece of text where it is stated that he has limited permission although it does not directly define these permissions. See last few words of this line.

And you are correct. Bill has limited permission for the remastered stuff you see (from WotC). He just cannot (currently) remaster any other books than what he had finished already. Altogether new material (via Star Frontiersman Magazine) is totally OK regardless. I am not sure if he has the...

referring to starfrontiers.com

If you look at the last letter on that page, it seems that things are working themselves out. As a fan of this older material, I find it onerous that someone thinks that community is out to 'pirate' that material. It is just a groups of fans who don't want one of their favorite games to die...

I have never been a fan of the design concept of 'total balance or equality', so yes, I think the game can use a variety of classes that break from the PC model. If a situation presented where a PC of the special class was needed or desired, one could always tweak the XP chart for that class...