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I think WoD is decades past its expiry date and the new management were foolish to revive it. While I don’t agree with every creative...

I don’t actually trust modern WotC to do Alternity justice at all. Their first attempt with a few perfunctory d20 conversions wasn’t...

Exactly. Meyer vampires are metaphors for Mormonism. Whedon vampires are not even a reimagining imo, they're a continuation of the...

Yeah, but the whole blood libel makes me inherently revolted by the comparison. I think the best metaphor is addiction. Vampires are...

Ditto. I like biopunk settings like that and GeneTech from Polyhedron/d20 Future. They’re rare and each one is wildly different from the...

I love the premise for Bughunters. I think it’s better than the official Aliens RPG.

I took women's studies in college. I'm quite familiar with women in refrigerators and so on. I think Dark•Matter/d20 Modern's...

Dark•Matter made reptilians, the “Kinori”, into good guys. You can find a summary of the problematic conspiracies here and here. Long...

In any case, I’m not gonna let the nasty words of the nasty haters hold me back. I don’t know the first thing about making my own games...

The writers had just enough self-awareness to sanitize that part. Indeed, Judaism gets its own monotheistic magic system that is kosher...

Regardless of TSR's finances, I think SD is a cool setting with tons of untapped potential. If it was given a chance to shine, then I...

Then I guess that it's a good thing that I never said that.

This is true for RPG players in general. I believe it's called "grognardism" or something? Anytime you have a game receive new editions...

As I heard, Rich Baker said it sold over the moon... for publishers other than WotC. For WotC, it wasn't as much as D&D. The SW license...

We clearly value completely different things then. I don't see any of that in the areas that I personally care about. They're not. WotC...