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I liked how they used some skills (like initiative), but I do rather dislike the overall rigid skill bonus structure. Dislike is too mild a word, really.

Yeah, pretty much that. If you go with Mongoose Traveller, it sounds as if you want a heavily exploration driven game. You might want to pick up the Scouts supplement early on, as it adds more detail to such games. In the standard Traveller setting, the Scouts are much like a military service...

Wow. That's pretty much the exact reason 4th ed's ideas are not great for me. Swimming sucks because whenever you jump in water, you drown. There's just a bit of a chance that if this is why you think simulation sucks, you may be doing it wrong. Well, that certainly would explain why...

Say, can you put my Spycraft games in the list? TIA

MEET AT THE EMBASSY On Wednesday, I'll be running an early game of Spycraft 2.0. Show up to GenCon early for action! subterfuge! explosions! sneakiness! supernatural horrors from beyond*. This will be a continuation of last year's FLASHPOINT plotline, though it is not necessary to have played...

THE START/END TIMES ON THIS ONE ARE FLEXIBLE MEET @ EMBASSY LOBBY On Wednesday, I'll be running an early game of Spycraft 2.0. Show up to GenCon early for action! subterfuge! explosions! sneakiness! supernatural horrors from beyond*. This will be a continuation of last year's FLASHPOINT...

Why do you hate HERO 5e? /me backstabs the flat-footed 5E (Fifth Element, that is)

The rules of 2e were so close to 1e that I still fail to see why there seemed to be such reluctance to move forwards by some. The only thing that really bothered me is that Oriental Adventures -- a book that brought us tons of fun in the later AD&D era -- was so poorly pulled forward in most...

Absolutely. With the exception, the player is not the GM or author, and all of them have to abide by the limitations of the ruleset for making PCs. In the realm of RPGs, the Mary Sue has the most overlap with the stereotypical GMPC or (when written into the setting) Canon-super-hero.

I just plugged for Gumshoe over on CM. So I'll second that!

That's what I thought.

Wow, you think? My perception of the period was vastly different. Early in the era, there were a rash of "D&D in a Jello-mold" type settings/systems that were afraid to do so much as dispense with the basics races! It really wasn't until the number of publishers started to simmer down you...

Is it? I thought #2 and #3 were the common wisdom. #1, I've seen some small publishers that think that. And some (including some I respect a bunch) who lurve 4e. #4 seems silly. Even if 4e is half the sales of 3e, it's still an order of magnitude more sales that most 3pps ever see, so I...

To be clear, I was no way impugning Joseph's integrity. Indeed, of all the people I have dealt with in the RPG industry, he's one of the more professional.

That's a very good point, joethelawyer. Motivation is probably something you should be examining with just as much, or more, scrutiny than credentials.

I want to see the thread were a publisher that mangled a setting had his favorite setting mangled and apologizes to the fans. :cool:

I discussed this in an old thread a while back. Some of the original discussion happens here (and here and here), but the final form of the rules is posted in my blog, here: xp-less-advancement-action-point-variant As you can see by some of the discussion in those threads that I pretty much...

I also have a fold out in my Embassy suite, if anyone wants to split room costs. Not first come first serve. Due to past experience, I will go with people I know first. :cool:

Scenes: generally, but it depends. NPCs: if it's apparent, you can guess. But determining NPC aspects is one of the major roles of the empathy skill.

I put a review up in the review section. It's become one of my go-to games, along with Spycraft 2.0. Great, wide-eyed, quick, empowering. I definitely recommend the faster conflict rules linked earlier. Sometimes characters seem too empowered and invulnerable; it helps keep the players on...