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SW published a Solomon Kane setting even. I would say the Napoleonic era is pretty lightly explored.

True, but the key is just a dash. Not the steampunk nonsense of Deadlands, no magic, no spells, just bad people doing horrible things in...

This is the problem with fictional depictions of torture: they treat torture as an end unto itself. {Pedantic rant follows] The point...

I've run several long campaigns in the Old West. The key is a dash of Lovecraft.

I feel like that's is also a common issue with western gene. Lots of games but not a lot of campaigns. Maybe I'm just looking in the...

To be fair, he was commenting on my post, where I noted a shortage of pirate adventures, not setting material.

Non-weird WW2. There's only three I know of, one OOP, the other not very well supported, and the third is GURPs (Behind Enemy Lines, War...

If disney and warner brothers use Diamond, stopping this would cost them money. If they could stop it. This is how bankruptcies are done.

Ouch. I suppose pdfs are out of the question?

Thanks. The last time I bought a comic book, it was fifty cents.

Rough numbers via Data Bridge, etc. Comics is around a $10 billion dollar global business (not including related media, etc) with the...

Are comics a larger industry that RPGs? Never caught the habit.

Was Diamond big enough to warrant that interest? I know it was big in the RPG industry, but that's a shallow pool.

Looks like the last payroll was met, so they are clear in this case. Otherwise, generally screwed is the usual outcome.

All of which speaks to how predatory some major hobby market businesses, especially in the US, have become, and how careful you have to...