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Only if you have the predicate talent. Most characters can't actually learn psionics. Had one player, his rolls resulted in a PSR 10 but...

That number has been trending upward since the end of November to hit that point... I doubt it is stopping there. It's not just the...

Dragonlance has magic studied at three institutes (the three towers of High Sorcery). An institution studying something does not make...

No, Traveller does NOT present them as having a scientific explanation. It doesn't explain them much; it just presents them as rules...

Without official support in the form of supplements. There are a ton of fanmade products.

It had enough designer support at release to build a fanbase big enough to draw a self-repleneshing fanbase, and to draw designers to...

For me, fumble equals failure plus complication, nothing more. "Incompetence on parade" isn't fun for most players.

Wrong. It's had plenty of support, in the form of the designer and the games fans explaining how to play it.

He also licensed out the village book to a number of other companies to sell in the 00's, then later bitched that they were selling...

The 1e is a better game, and still up. Ship rules are largely the same, but 1e is an 8-att, roll under the relevant att, class...

I'm not. I'm just saying having support of various kinds is essential to success.

Many won't. Some genuinely can't. I'm lazy, and I'll admit it. I prefer to use published expansion material. But not without a certain...

I have no idea what the quality was years ago, I'm a recent purchaser of their products. I wouldn't call the products bad. I think the...

It's getting more rougher. I talked about some things previously in this thread and the decisions have come out regarding the...

Chaosium co-ordinates a standard release date across markets -- which is quite difficult. This means stock arrives at some of those...