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It's interesting to see that D&D 4e is now a mid-tier game, basically on par with FATE, Savage Worlds, and GURPS. I'd also guess that most of the D&D 4e games are long-term games, and that there are few new ones cropping up, which would be unlike FATE, Savage Worlds, and GURPS. I'm also amazed...

It’s at 60% after 5 days of an 18 day Kickstarter. How is that doing badly?

That Planescape sculpture looks like Peter Gabriel's head in his flower costume for "Willow Farm."

+1. I keep wanting to do a retroclone of 3e/5e-style mechanics, but B/X in scope. As in seven classes, race as class, only about 200 monsters, about the same number of magic items and spells. No picking skills; they're assigned as part of the class, and the tasks are subsumed into the rules...

Except that Blackmoor wasn't based on Chainmail. Arneson used it as a monster manual and spell book, but he usually didn't use the actual combat resolution system. He used it briefly, but his players didn't like it, culminating in the Troll under the Bridge fight, wherein Bob Meyer's Hero got...

Who walked away, Harmony Gold or Palladium Books? Nobody has said; Siembieda's announcement is in the passive: Neither option is good for Palladium Books. If Harmony Gold chose not to renew the license, it means that it felt Palladium Books was an overall black mark on a property it's apparently...

While avoiding the whole issue of the thread, in OD&D, race and class are separate. It's only in the BX/BEMCI/RC versions of D&D that they're unified. Of course, since Dwarves and Hobbits could only be Fighting-Men in the original OD&D boxed set, this wasn't a big limitation when it was added to...

This isn't as meaningful as folks are making it out to be. Starfinder is a new game pushed by a big company with a big installed base of a similar game. As right now it's selling the core rulebooks to the existing Pathfinder customers, which are always the biggest sellers, this isn't indicative...

The terms in place at the time do pretty clearly state the backers can get a refund: https://web.archive.org/web/20130418081350/http://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use "Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose...

The last one was true in my experience, but otherwise, this has been mixed. I've had one friend who liked to run them exclusively, but otherwise, most avoided them. And I've played in many groups over more than 30 years. If they're stand-alone and have replay value, sure. If they're adventure...

Uh, yeah. That was the point. It was to make a new fantasy RPG based on GURPS, which means it has to include the material from the Basic Set and Magic. The basic structure was always going to be this, and SJG was pretty up-front about it: That pretty much means that Kromm is paring down the...

Funny, I have an article for Pyramid that's been near publication about diseases in GURPS. Based on research and play testing (my players now know that their Health scores are important), some advice and summary: * Don't give the PCs serious diseases unless they're asking for it (like dressing...

That GURPS has been mostly PDF sales, with only a few high sellers going softcover (Dungeon Fantasy 1-4, Supers) after being on Warehouse 23 in PDF for a long time pretty well disproves the idea that SJG isn’t bothered about electronic sales. Six of the PDFs up on RPGNow are PDF-only; two more...

Uh, no. The reason is that OBS takes a 35% cut of all sales while not only does Warehouse 23 take a lower cut, SJG owns Warehouse 23. SJG has been selling primarily PDFs for GURPS for many years.

“D&D grew immediately out of Chainmail when Dave Arneson used it to run adventures in the dungeons of Blackmoor” This statement is often bandied about, but there is ample evidence to challenge it. Bob Meyer (“Robert the Bald,” which makes no sense since Bob still has a full head of hair) just...

“There is an assumption that people picking up this boxed set will have some level of experience with the GURPS rules themselves.” There is? Where is it?

Let me fix that for you: And XP for treasure? Good, since dropping it 30 years ago made games worse.

We have everyone more-or-less agreeing again. I utterly fail to see what good another edition would bring, other than Hasbro making more money from everyone buying new copies of the core books. Even that is a mixed blessing, since doing that constantly turns off buyers. First edition AD&D lasted...

I quite concur. And, when you get down to it, that's the system they ditched from 4e. The 5e system is the one they had in 3e, and before that, it was roll every round going back to OD&D, when there wasn't much guidance as to how to do it. The specific variant Mearls is proposing reminds me of...

"New 5E content providing additional detail on the areas surrounding the Caves of Chaos, including, at long last, the Cave of the Unknown." Uh, why? That defeats the point of the Cave of the Unknown, which was a place the DM could develop for his own scenarios.