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Here's one: Shatterzone, West End Games's answer to losing the Star Wars license. Really intense, gritty, of-its-time sci-fi setting...

When done chronically, this speaks volumes.

I'll say it was a big letdown on the GM's part. Whatever the scenario was about, that's what you are investigating, and then you get to...

Honestly, I'm not sure that the lack of success for Immortal had much to do with complexity; it was less complex in most ways than most...

I have interacted with Bloodtide enough to know what he means, having heard it numerous times before. Remember, he's the one who proudly...

I was working in a comic shop in the mid-to-late 90s. All the Liefeld art, reboots, character deaths and resurrections, revamps, issue...

I agree, but I think we need to be real here, because there are two massive factors here: 1) We know what we're doing, in extreme...

So, the rules aren't rules. They're just suggestions. The GM does whatever they want, whenever they want, for as long as they...

Looking at this, the names are probably a coincidence, and notably, that book came out nearly five years ago now, so the line appears to...

Well, it kind of followed the Battletech/Mechwarrior pattern there.

Though it's mainly a tactical game with an RPG supplement rather than an RPG first and foremost, as someone who ran the RenLeg mailing...

It was. Some of the material started to get updated in the early 3e days, but so far as I know their only releases were just PDFized...

That's the Pacesetter one, right? I thought I remembered a new version of that showing up a while back. Or was it Timemaster? (I...

I'm admittedly speaking from old memory, but I seem to recall the failure chances for spellcasters were a bit high for a magic-fumble...

How are people still so shocked and hurt and outraged to learn...on the Internet, in the 21st century...that companies exist to make...