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I would love a traveller rules set made specifically for Btech, the only real change I would make is switching die mods to TN mods and base skill as TN, and wah la now it's virtually the same system. Skills start at A (ten for you non travelers out there) and each skill improvement reduces it...

The simplest answer to this question is because games that don’t have skills and use class and level for everything have to have specialized classes to represent things that could’ve simply been represented by skills in. Class based games are driven by tropes (classes are tropes) the brave...

I played Mac Warrior first edition, but the rules never really stuck with my players so we switched over to using classic traveler which also uses a 2D6 resolution mechanic that is extremely similar to BattleTech resolution system. I own every edition of the role-playing game produced all the...

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I went through three role-play games and rather quick succession. We started with dungeons of dragons, a mashup of BX, BECMI, and ADND second edition (it was elementary school. None of us really knew what we were doing) which was replaced after four months by star frontiers because we were all...

Nothing because I would never run a 60 session campaign. Longest campaign I ever ran was ~15 sessions and that was Teenage mutant ninja turtles and other strangeness. Next longest was Mega traveller or Cyberpunk 2020 but they were 5-6 sessions. My group never went in for long campaigns because...

So far I am pretty unimpressed with the whole playtest so far, none of these changes seem to be aimed to simplify the game as was claimed. These changes all look like minor pet peeves from some of the battletech forum and discord mods instead of any kind of meaningful simplifications.

Got to play a couple of small games with the new rules and they were…meh🤷. So the set up is that my group largely plays 3025 tech and prefer classic mechs. That said we also have used forced withdrawl rules as a standard. We had one ammo explosion on an already heavily damaged medium so the 20...

Now thats some good data! Interesting that he went all the trouble to get the numbers concealed at Amazon in the US but then not in Canada I wonder if the others non US Amazons have sales ranks still?

WOTC removing their products from amazon sales data is hiding it, Darrington is just not saying anything which hurts the newcomer to the market

I think in this situation, concealing sales of their core product are just slowing down third-party publishers from supporting it. It feels like Daggerheart is popular. It feels like it is selling a lot. The numbers from the places we can get them like Amazon and drive-through look really good...

Sales don’t appear to be poor though, all available data says its selling very well. And there is still demand outstripping production several months after its release and a large kickstarter. Demand is high enough that instead of waiting for the boxes and card cases for the core set to be...

Enlighten me what possible advantages does a company create by hiding sales figures?

This all harkens back to one of the core problems in the entire industry, which is nobody with very few exceptions shares sales data. I really do hope that someday Darrington press in many of the other larger companies in the industry follow Steve Jackson Games, and just put the damn sales info...