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Also, it would have been useful to include the publisher. When Strange Machine Games had gone silent on this product and Battlefield Press came out with a Robotech - Macross Saga book, I'd assumed this product had died. Nice to know it still lives and has gone to market, but that point was...

While it is true that that is the classic definition of luxury, it really doesn't work well in the modern world of mass market commoditization. In the western world, much of what even the poor buy falls into that category of "luxury" without having to go anywhere near things like electricity...

"Role playing games are a luxury market" This is the fallacy of the entire arguement. RPGs are NOT a luxury market, they are a mass market commodity in direct competition for buyer's $$ with novels, movies, computer games and other entertainment. The complaints about RPG costs are usually...

I never meant to imply I didn't like the idea of providing old editions in new KSes, just the way the new BESM KS had structured it. In both the TORG and Savage Worlds Adventure edition KSes, you could get the old versions books as part of digital-only rewards, and I did just that for both...

I'm passing on BESM 4 despite supporting each of the prior versions. Charging $30 for PDFs of the core book and a cut down "simplified" version of the core rules is a bit steep for s Kickstarter and they aren't really offsetting with stretch goals as most of the stretch goals won't kick in...

There are two big assumptions in Crystal Frasier's thoughts which have not fully held true in other tariff increases to date: 1. The Chinese printers won't cut their prices to keep their market share. 2. Other countries won't become the low cost printer for less than the $2 increase...

In their first KS, they talked about setting up the equipment to manufacture bones minis themselves. Unfortunately this only came to pass in their base mass production KS. Hopefully this will cause them to rethink going to China and building up their own manufacturing capacity instead and make...

Well, somebody only did about half their research on this article... "The first attempt to make an individual ration for issue to soldiers in the field was the "iron ration", first introduced in 1907." Iron rations the name came out of that tie period, but the concept is meant as an...

I suspect it also goes back to the entertainment we have and the expectations it sets. Takes movies for example. In the 70s and 80s, you could still find major set-piece battles involving armies fairly regularly where you could occasionally see morale break in action, especially given that the...

If anybody is interested, it looks like Strange Machine Games has early play test documents in their forums. http://forums.strangemachinegames.com/forums/topic/robotech-rpg-alpha-3-download/

Hmm... GM: Ok, having defeated the ancient Lich of The Thrice Fallen Citadel you soon discover the seal chest in which he held the ancient treasure for which he devised his infernally cunning labyrinth of death traps. As you open it, your wondrous eyes appears banknotes worth tens of millions...

For those who are interested, it's also available at a significant discount, at The Bundle of Holding.

Because much of the Fantasy Genre is ultimately based on a pastiche of European tropes and historical medieval European culture. In many ways it's almost a caricature of it as it ignores the wide cultural variety that the basic formula was expressed. So when you talk about Waterdeep, it most...

Please. There is a solid argument that my Irish ancestors were intentionally starved out of their lands by the British. But guess what, I'm friends and co-workers with British today and consider the UK one of the US's best and most important allies. Why, because it happened so many...

Anybody who has an issue with "...colonized people have had their voice and their stories and the narratives stripped and stolen from them..." should give up speaking English as laterally the vast majority of every syllable, construct, and concept in it was stolen from another culture. Or give...

Really? Tell that to John Wick Presents who just had a very successful Kickstarter, 7th Sea Khitai, that did the exact same approach as Oriental Adventures. From the KS: [/COLOR] Yes, they did add some further expansion books related to specific cultures as stretch goals, but the fact...

They were also trying to appeal to those more interested in nostalgia/collecting (like me), they chose to go with very high detail. Unfortunately the type of plastic they chose limited how the parts could be made and resulted in a very high part count per model with parts that aren't...

While HG certainly hasn't showered itself with glory in respect to many of the things they've done to protect their IP, lets remember that much of the HG/Battletech fight was really minor fallout from the radioactive Charlie Foxtrot that was the Macross IP in Japan, which took the Japanese...

The terms of the exchange, which more or less outlines wave 1 vs wave 2 are here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/2124551?ref=backer_project_update

Kevin Sembieda explained the various woes and ignored the biggest woe of all, Kevin Sembieda himself. I passed on the recent Bundles of Holding featuring Palladium books even though I would have snapped them up previously specifically because the horrific customer service they did on the RRT...