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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (the exceptionally bad one, directed by Shatner and with the cheesy 'god' alien) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Get it right, man! :)

Oh yeah....ST:V was dreadful. And shabby in its handling of the supposed 'god' figure. Many years ago I was at a Star Trek convention where Shatner was the keynote, and someone had the guts to ask him, during open QnA, if he regretted directing ST:V, given how bad it was. Shatner took it in...

Good points - I'm not a B5 fan, so I didn't know that. I've watched bits and pieces of Space 1999 recently but not enough to say I have any clue about it, and I do remember the somewhat corny (but actually really cool) Egyptian imagery and references in the original BSG (because that's the only...

This is a great point. Rarely have I seen a cleric in DnD played as anything other than a character with powers wielded as the player wishes...what about duties to the god? What about spreading the word? What tenets of the faith are expected of believers and practitioners? Beyond that, I think...

I'll take the bait. :) The idea of using the Bible as source material for a setting and campaign is fascinating, and setting a story within the events on which the New Testament are based makes sense (there are plenty of other eras in the OT that'd work, too). Recasting classes in ways that...

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Yep...in fact, some of the random encounter cards address this, one in the form of an irradiated impact crater if I remember it correctly. There are rules for dealing with radiation exposure, too.

If you dig T2K, the Weapons Deck is a great, low-price add to your collection. I've thus far only played the game as a skirmish system (in large part to become familiar with the combat system) and having cards to hand out with weapon stats makes it easy to keep combat moving quickly when, for...

Spot-on perspective - yeah; me, too. A good system does more than resolve tasks when success is not assured: it models a certain vibe. This system does that, without getting nutty like Phoenix Command tried to.

For the good of the thread: the next episode on my gaming podcast (publishing tomorrow, 5 JAN) is about T2K - initial reaction and an initial commentary on the combat system. I have a guest cohost for this episode (my regular cohost wasn't available to record), and he weighed in with his combat...

Good point - a short intro adventure would have pushed it into the stratosphere for quality. However, given the maps and encounter cards you could easily assemble a series of encounters and just see how the players respond as they run away from their collapsing division.

Hmm...I was hoping you would...change my mind.

I am not a fan of YZE, either, and didn't back the KS because of that - I wanted to see how the modified version of the system was before spending money on it. I've played Forbidden Lands, Mutant Year Zero, and a good amount of Alien...and really don't like that mechanic, or what trappings...

I'll take your word on the VTT stuff...I do all my gaming in person. Glad to know that it works easily and runs the same way virtually, though.

You only risk jams like that from using ammo dice if you push your rolls. Unfortunately, magazine, box, drum, and belt-fed weapons do tend to jam more when you're firing at full auto, which use of ammo dice is supposed to represent. If you don't push your roll, then those ammo dice, even if they...

Big plugs for T2K and Achtung! Cthulhu - they are both outstanding products in terms of system, organization, ideas, and physical production value. AC is, in my view, the best presentation of the 2d20 rules yet, with them described clearly in both the PG and GM's Guide. The GM's Guide provides...

You could easily erase all that bad 90s music by simply saying that in this alternate timeline, 80s Metal and Rock prevailed. That's what I'm going to do.

That's a really good point about the genre. Perhaps so much of its allure was because of not only what is was/is, but also of when it came out, and what was going on then (late 80s to mid-90s). The mood of the times + technological possibilities as dreamed of at that time + the cheekiness of...

I am torn over Red. I played CP2020 a ton way back when, and loved the system, setting, and tone of the books. Only Vampire: the Masquerade matched the degree to which CP's authors presented their world through the tone and wording of their supplements and rulebooks. I remember the combat system...

It's a great book, and far more than just a setting sourcebook. My buddy and I addressed it in this episode of our podcast.