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Ummm... okay. I'm not sure that this has any relevance to a criticism of how AEG structures the Spycraft product line, burying generic rules piecemeal inside setting-specific supplements and creating cascading dependencies between supplements. What was your point, exactly? KoOS

First, if you're seriously suggesting that Spycraft has as many fans as D&D, that's more than a little silly and even AEG would tell you so. If you're not, then your statement is void of meaning -- every game has some fans, even games that crash and burn out of the market in utter commercial...

The point you're attempting to make is fruitless, as you're comparing a licensed product which must pass approvals (Buffy) with a product wholly owned by the publisher (Spycraft). It's not even apples and oranges, it's cabbage and jellyfish. Everything Eden publishes for Buffy must pass muster...

No, he doesn't. He admits that they are tenuous and not verifiable, but the fact that he even publishes the report suggests that he thinks they have some merit (and in fact, he does say this). I'm arguing the opposite -- that the C&GR numbers are so wholly without merit that it is misleading...

I love Ken Hite's work and think he is arguably the most brilliant writer in gaming, but the C&GR numbers are worse than useless. Using them fails to take into account the vast, vast difference between the way most comics shops are run, and most game shops are run (hint: few comics shops will...

Writers for the line have publicly said that it is the bestselling modern-era RPG on the market since its release, so you have to figure that it has sold at least as well as GURPS and WoD books in the last couple of years. That said, those were both old games at the time d20M first hit the...

Kim Suskind: definitely psi powers, with emphasis on psychokinesis and invisibility/stealth powers. Randall Dowling: Field Scientist AdvC for sure. William Leather: more Elohim than Charred One, IMO. One thing to keep in mind is that the Four are all HIGH level characters -- 20th level at...

Not to be overly pedantic, but... You do realize that Underground was published by Mayfair, right? As in the Mayfair Exponential Gaming System (MEGS) that powered DC Heroes, also published by Mayfair? Or are you just carelessly using the term rip-off? Because in North America it has a rather...

The person who is most publicly identified with opposing Ryan Dancey's vision for the industry is the owner of a company that produces d20 content almost exclusively -- very popular d20 content, I might add. So I would suggest that this charge is largely bollocks. Likewise, your insinuation...

You know, I actually hope it's complete enough that further supplements are unnecessary. KoOS

The Game Mechanics' stuff published by Green Ronin is fantastic; the Modern Player's Companion is particularly indispensable. KoOS

I think generic medieval fantasy is a much, much broader literary genre than modern vampire fiction. Also, and this is a gross generalization, the kind of person who looks to rewrite and publish his own customized version of his favorite RPG occurs more frequently in the fantasy demographic...

Two Prestige (not Advanced) Classes, the Patrol Pointer and Guerilla Intruder. There is also a new moreau species detailed (Orca), and the rules for franks (too short in the article, but they appear to be enhanced in d20F). Like I said, the structure is identical to the campaign models in the...

I wasn't talking about the rules (which I agree are nicely broad), I was talking about the actual background campaign info and flavour bits. The Alternity corebooks didn't really have anything like the d20M/d20F campaign models, and what fluff was there was almost entirely S*D as the default...

The models in the d20M corebook average about 14 pages each. The Genetech article is slightly longer (a bit over 20 pages) but it also has things like almost 2 full pages of maps, proportionally larger pics and a full-page ad in the middle ('cause it's a magazine, of course). Structurally it...

Well, except that Alternity didn't have mecha, or Star Frontiers content, or support for campaign models outside of Star*Drive / Dark*Matter / GW. The core material was strongly defaulted towards S*D, so I expect the focus and flavour of d20F will be quite different. I also expect that a lot...

I thought the Genetech article in Poly was pretty much the campaign model cut from d20M, word for word. It didn't seem any longer or more complete than the models in the corebook. KoOS

http://www.wolf-spoor.org KoOS

Mutants & Masterminds, hands down the best supers game for d20 (or any system) IMO. I think SAS d20 is incredibly kludgy and inelegant, but that is a plus for some people so YMMV. KoOS

I don't have the web enhancement for the DMG, but this sounds like Chapter 8 of Urban Arcana. KoOS