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In the early days many companies who already published wargames (hex games on boards mostly) tried their hand at rpgs. It was the new thing. Some rpgs were memorable others quickly forgotten.

I only switch editions after a campaign is completed. I played D&D from Basic Moldvay to 5e. Some of my first rpg friends still play 1e. They never switched to 2e or any other edition. At this juncture I'm no longer sure I want to invest into new editions of games I already have. I really don't...

Yep. The same thing happened with Alterity 2.0. The name Alternity was grabbed by Sasquatch. The system has nothing to do with the first version by OTSR.

FrontierSpace: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/222633/FrontierSpace-Players-Handbook

James M. Ward comments on the new TSR III and his involvement with Giantlands:

So, TSR III doesn't have the rights to the Star Frontiers setting. We already have FrontierSpace by Bill Logan, who is an actual fan of the original rpg. I'm not interested in yet another version without the original setting and races.

Speechless... is all I'll say.

Dude I was joking around, pulling 'your' virtual leg. Hence the emoticon. ;-)

In another campaign I started them on a pirate ship against their will. They managed to escape after a few harrowing levels. After finding some gold they bought their own ship, became corsairs for the King to seek vengeance against the pirate and all his friends.

My solution was to make them children (siblings) of a baron. They work for him defending his interest, that are not always lofty. The barony is in a backwater section of the kingdom with mountains nearby.

It is very good. Loved it much more than 4e D&D.

The art that had to be removed were digital redrawings of floor plans from modules and also SF articles from the Dragon Magazines which had been reproduced exactly.

The hidden cost of DMing is that you have to accept that you will always loose. The PCs always wins. They always kill your beautiful monsters and BBEGs... A DM is a looser by definition. Psychologically that is very hard to accept. 41 years of always loosing so far... don't know how much longer...

Yes, the words 'Star Frontiers' could have been snatched. But the content of the game (setting, races, unique equipment) are not up for grabs. A new version of Star Frontiers without the setting would not work for me. Just like Alternity 2.0 by Sasquatsh Games.

That is the episode that sent WoTC on a rampage sending cease & desist to StarFrontiersMan (2017) to stop distributing the remastered version of Star Frontiers they had been handing out for free because WoTc had given them the permission to do so several years before, in a letter. It killed the...

Minor nitpick: Star Frontiers races did make appearances in Alternity and in d20 Future (3e, 2004). I did a Star Frontiers campaign using d20 future. But yes it has been 10+ years, so only one decade technically. 🙃

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Assuming "TSR games, the third" owns the Star Frontiers IP I'm wondering if the reboot system will be the same as the one used in the new Giant Lands. Both games use d100. That would make sense.

I wonder about that. Coriolis and many other sci-fi games have the "Firefly must survive by the seat of their pants with a new contract or die in space because of a faulty part". They seem popular enough as games when you look at the success level of the KS.