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There was also Green Ronin‘s True Sorcery book, which was d20 compatible and had a very flexible build your spell option, and used non lethal damage as the cost. I loved it but it died from lack of it catching on. https://greenroninstore.com/products/true-sorcery-pdf

For me, each ship was like a hundred ton mech with the little boxes, the allocations for energy, speed, firing arcs, etc, - energy allocation was like heat management in reverse for me - in SFB you had to plan what systems to use each turn: in BT, you COULD nova, but you were screwed for a turn...

SFB was one of the few game systems I’ve ever seen LITERALLY written like a 1970s era technical manual, with ”Section 1.7.2 subsection T” style language. Blew me away the first time I saw it, even though it wasn’t that much harder to understand than old school Battletech - just more like...

As noted in another thread, Dangerous Journeys overwhelmed me when it started reading it. It had tons of cool ideas, but to actually play it I just couldn’t wrap my mind around how to implement it without getting half the rules wrong. Another was GURPS, the first time I read it. The detailed...

I would say that (based on the opinions most people in this thread have espoused) most players want a risk of character death, but a low risk of character death - especially since even people who think 5e is too forgiving tend to list death as LAST among other possible losses. id say maybe it...

The funny thing is, if you were to write up all the things that DID happen in 2020 and present it to someone from 2010, they’d probably tell you it was a cool alt-history story, but that you had too many things going on at once and to tone it back a bit. 😀

It took 'em 20 years, but they finally decided to do it. :) Glad my friends and I are out of MtG nowadays, or this (the FR set) would have pulled me back in.

what’s more powerful than a death knight, you ask? now we know...

it’s muons in rotation they act a little wobble-y could be polarization Explains the whole darn thing, you see mmm, explained the quirk with science EXPLAINED THE QUIRK, WITH SCIENCE! and failed the click-bait test, you see...

Oh, absolutely - I liked the ideas it had - it was just execution that was rough, IMO. But to this day I would still say there was no merit to the legal case - Lotus lost to Microsoft over more “look and feel” and “user experience” with spreadsheets than DJ and D&D had in common. Heck...

For years I sat on the Dangerous Journeys series, wanting to play it but figuring something was wrong with me because Gary had designed it so it must be fantastic, but I just couldn’t figure out how to play it. It wasn’t until later that I figured out games had to be able to be PLAYED...

That’s less of a “miniature“ and more of a “maxiature.” :p

Both are very worthwhile, IMO, for different reasons. I like what I’m seeing in BG3 for sheer graphical beauty, and the latest update with the Druid class also has large numbers of tweaks to small things that are making it better and better. it does not beat Solasta for the sheer experience of...

It’s entirely possible that “Forge Fletcher” is a fake name to toss the press so people won’t go looking. It’d be really funny if Forge Fletcher was code for, say, “Obould Many-arrows” or something. 🙂

She killed a DOG. If puppy-killin‘ don’t scream “evil,” I’m not sure what does. 😉

I feel like track record is the lesson; in Runesmith’s case, they already kickstarted a previous product (Stibble’s Codex of Companions) which they fulfilled on schedule and was apparently a pretty well-received product with promised reward accessories. Once you have not only a fan base, but a...

I think if the Six-fingered man had been Graz’zt instead of Count Rugen, it would have been a very different movie. 😁

And don’t forget Cyber!

Put me in the ”everyone should try it at least once” camp. Not everyone has to be the best GM in the group. It gives each person a chance to steer the group towards the type of game THEY would like to see at the table, which exposes the group to new ideas. taking a turn as GM gives everyone at...

Eh, what the Hell.. er, I mean, Abyss.