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This is why I prefer the motivations of the AI from "I, Robot" instead of destroy/enslave humanity the AI is the "benevolent dictator"...

I suppose whichever goals it was programmed with originally, which likely led to unforeseen consequences, either because of lack of...

So I was kicking around the idea of a Terminator/Skynet-style campaign set in the War against the machines period. There's various...

And Hackmaster 5e.

CoC by Gaslight: Return of the Ripper. You can easily dump the Mythos stuff and just run it as a serial killer or a cultist of the...

Self improvement via genocide. Again.

When the first edition came out, most of my gaming friends snapped it up and played Shadows Over Bögenhafen. It was really something fresh.

The art, the tone, magazine support, and the tie-in to the minis game certainly did not hurt, either. Especially in a pre-Net release.

For the last 20-odd years, I only buy pdfs.

Empire of the Petal Throne is one of the earliest RPGs, and it was, and still is, not in the traditional fantasy mold.

I cannot promise that it is highly historically accurate; as noted, it's strongly inspired by stories like Sinbad and the Thousand and...

Those types of settings have been criticized before though, and many went back to old tired clichés after being accused (rightly or...

I think the metaphor needs a little more to it than simply eurocentricism. D&D is more "western-centric." There is a distinct absence...

I have grown bored and even irritated with the many lazy, clichéd, trite, and/or overwrought elements of the "standard" pseudo European...

I'm still saying it, because at my table, it is true. The hobby is a very loose confederation of very small clans, each autonomous...