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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    How many of those games are still in print. Jorune is technically in print but only because you can order remaindered books from Chessex.
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    Drifting Skyland is a concept that seems to doom a lot of games. Like they just don’t catch on.
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    Pendragon doesn't do it badly...and I'd err on the side of Aquellarre if I wanted to change that out.
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    For fantasy worlds we can maybe forgive a little. In TODL we have cold lands at the top and bottom
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    I guess because of the eurocentric nature of the industry. My first fantasy game, Tales of Distant Lands, is heavily influenced by A Wizard of Earthsea and I'm very explicit that it's an archipelago in a wider world, that everyone you meet will be brown skinned and there's no sharp noses. The...
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    What does it take for an RPG to die?

    As it only takes one GM to run a game for a group of players they have enslaved, it's hard to measure in that way. I'd say it's dead when it stops growing (a biological definition if ever there was one). That kindly means that even super old games like MSPE or Jorune are likely still growing...
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    Absolutely. without doing disservice to any and all. Thank you, it's been a heap of work. Hacking that into a YZE shell will be the effort of a lifetime. That was just the start of it. There's soooo many pulp games. Adventure! is currently in a new edition as well.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    The most obvious ones would be Duty&Honour and Good Society. So there's a couple, but not enough for sure. I made a One Page RPG (Chosen Men) for representing Sharpe. Sharpes career started in India (for those who didn't read the book series). I've kinda struggled to find games that represent...
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