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I've wanted to give a long term campaign like that a shot except break it up into different seasons. Like play the campaign arc for a few months, then play something else, return to the campaign, take a break, lather, rinse, and repeat. Another idea I've toyed with for the better part of 25...

I can understand that. I picked up RuneQuest on the cheap last year, but before I even finished reading it I knew I wasn't interested in running it unless everyone was up to speed on the lore. I've run into some problems with L5R with players who really didn't have an understanding for the...

Falling off is just a natural part of life. No matter whether we're talking about games, bands, television shows, or even empires, even the biggest and the best of them will fall off eventually. I imagine there are many young people in the United States today who have never seen an episode of...

West End Games had the Star Wars line from 1987 through 1999, during which they produced two different editions of the game (three if you count the revised & expanded rules) and more than 100 sourcebooks, adventures, and supplements which is an astonishing number. If it wasn't a successful game...

In 2000, John Wick released a game called Orkworld. From the beginning, Orkworld was designed to be a single book with a limited production run. No additional books. No reprints. It's done. As far as I know, Wick made a profit. He met his goal and made money which seems like a success to...

Excalibur certainly counts as a fantasy movie. I still remember the scene where Mordred and his orcish minions attack Perceval and hang him on that tree.

This thread is supposed to be about successful games not dead games. We have an entire other thread devoted to what makes a game dead. We should probably take the conversation there.

It's interesting because the introduction of PDFs have made it possible to purchase all sort of games. It's easier for me to get my hands on Oriental Adventures for AD&D today than it was in 1990. I should amend my definition to be games which no longer have new material published for it...

It's the only definition that works. All the others are far too fluffy. Clap! Clap if you believe in Cyborg Commando! See? It's not dead! It loves, so long as cybernetic warriors fighting alien bugs live in our hearts.

Dead to me means the game is no longer in publication. I don't care if people play it. If we go by that standard, there's no way to truly determine if a game is dead because we don't know for sure whether someone is playing it.

I don't remember Krull being a particularly good movie. I pretty much have zero warm and fuzzies towards it myself.

It’s possible for a successful product to die. WEG’s Star Wars was quite successful so far as I can tell, yet it is dead, dead, dead.

You can’t use the likes of Beyoncé or Queen as your standard for a successful musical. I prefer a somewhat objective definition. If the game made a profit then it was successful.

Sometimes I think if I went to one of your games I'd come back home with a black eye and missing my wallet.

For Deathstalker in particular, I don't think it's the adult content per se people have a problem with so much as the source material's protagonist engaging in sexual assault, sometimes for laughs. I do agree there's a place for rated R games though.

It's been a while since I saw Deathstalker, I must have been seven or eight years old when I first saw it (my parents didn't like me), and my immediate thought was, "Who is clamoring for a Deathstalker game?" Did the movie have excellent worldbuilding giving us plenty of fodder for a setting...

For obvious reasons, we tend to focus on D&D when it comes to the Satanic Panic around here, but RPGs were just a tiny part of the panic. Whenever I hear someone say how stupid people were a few centuries ago for believing in witches I just point to the 1980s.

Oh, my goodness! I glued the mask on the wrong side of mine!!

Another Zombicide abomination. The Texas Deadhorn!