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The one example of that I’m aware of is the old WEG Star Wars game. Do a lot of other licensed games fill out the world like that?

For me, it's about lore and fluff. Official stuff does heavy lifting with world building and adds extra lore to IP.

That’s absolutely wild.

Nope, any aerosolized hydrocarbon will explode, even sawdust. There are tons of videos on YouTube of people throwing ordinary...

Not really. It's just kind of hard to "aerosolize" enough flour since it's a solid powder rather than a liquid. But I believe things...

Yeah. That. Not sure it needs to be unhealthy. But definitely attached.

Yeah. Mechanical support for that specific property absolutely makes sense. But that’s also where the close enough games live. Or even...

Because we have imprinted on a media and formed an unhealthy attachment to it. Ref: Me, and 40K.

Some of it is access to license specific world building, including some heavy lifting when it comes to mechanical prep for certain...

Every time I wished D&D had a good movie, some of the properties already do. For me at least these properties have a multimedia lore...

To me, it is a line between canon and homebrew. A stamp of approval, which implies some quality control, as well. Edit: I tend to prefer...

Absolutely. To me, any more, that’s a reason to use a close enough game rather than a licensed game. Like Mothership vs Alien. Both...

I mean, it’s all homebrew. Difference is there’s a license involved. That I can see. If we’re talking about the IP owner wanting their...

I feel like it would need to be finer than what’s commercially available or we’d all already know about this.

I kind of get it. A series you love gets an official RPG, with official art, with official…officialness. But then the thing comes out...