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It might be worth mentioning that White Dwarf magazine in the early 80s regularly covered Traveller, including suggestions on running...

I elected to commit genocide. Added commentary.

Sneaking in sewer slaying slavers.

as someone who has a love and hate of various editions... Yes, the rules do tend to make a significant difference in the feel of play...

On my agenda, but not anytime soon. Didin't like WFRP4 nor WFRP2, did like WFRP3 and WFRP1...

There is no task resolution system. There are many individual action special case rules, and a combat skill system. Marc's original Task...

Technically, that's the 2nd edition.... Or maybe the 2.2 edition. If you have the 4 Little Black Books Deluxe, you have books 0-3. If...

The cool stuff should have allowed them to dominate the Technocracy... which is part of the WTF? element for me.

It was a solid game, but the genre was changing heavily in the 70's - with both Sci-Fi Westerns (Wild Wild West, Battle Beyond the...

They did that with Dragonlance. It was a pretty good system, though.

Optimisation isn't the problem. We all do that. It's over-optimisation when no one else at the table plays that way. I had this problem...

prep for last wed T&T: In a digest sized file 3 pages of character gen tables copied from the book, then shorthand applied. This reduced...

Order of Hermes... but I was an Ars Magica player/ST. Sons of Ether and Euthanatos. Sons of Ether because they have failed to manage...

The easiest Mage plot that came to mind then and now is using coincidental magic to alter election results... as a campaign premise...