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The system is usual Palladium junk, but it's a surprisingly more readable and arguably complete version of it than you'll find in their earlier stuff. The game absolutely crushes it in terms of covering all sorts of zombies and zombie hunter archetypes, and has scrounging and community building...

As others have said, it's a mixed bag. Mechanics are at best an inspired but unplayable-as-is hack of early 80s D&D, setting is problematic, and its sensibilities are completely disconnected from the idea that you can both improve the game play and remove questionable assumptions. It's also...

Any effort to make the internet a nicer place is worth it IMHO

Although they don't need the defense, I gotta say it's equally tough seeing everyone's take on Ginny and Prof DM when they clearly didn't listen to the first minute of that video that was just shared. "I didn't read it cover to cover" =/= "I didn't read it"

Given the nature of the skill, combat, and stress rules (generally speaking), I don't foresee scenarios needing much tweaking. As is, they mostly just tell you what to roll, which should remain the same, even if the "how to roll it" in the rules changes in some way. Stress, by its nature, is an...

Given the number of air vents they've added to the maps for the upcoming edition, it seems like a no-brainer to work in some much more streamlined-yet-meaty additions to the stealth rules.

Google Sheet, using different tabs to organize different system families, catch-alls, generic/non-system-specific stuff, accessories, and pawns (as in Pathfinder and Starfinder - luckily the Pathfinder wiki and so on provided lists, so I could just copy/paste those into the sheet). So I have a...

Interesting that Paizo got out of Pawns only for Kobold Press to jump into it. I freaking love them, but after picking up so many boxes and "booster" packs for both PF and SF, I usually can find a "that's close enough" pawn for just about anything. Do I really need more? (The answer is...

I'm really on-board with the idea of more robust stealth rules and minis. When I ran an Alien actual play recently, I think the only thing I would've changed would have been getting the Aliens out sooner and having some Isolation-type moments. If the stealth rules help emulate that experience...

Working on using it in a campaign or two, but nothing live yet. I loved creating an orcery table with loads of blanks for the players to start messing around with and finding out. I watched Last Exile and started watching a play through of Skies of Arcadia to help set the mood. Last Exile was...

Strike is a great choice. Be prepared: it has horrendous organization, and is badly in need of an edit for clarity.

Might've missed it elsewhere in this thread, but have you considered Forbidden Psalm, the Mork Borg-but-Tactical RPG? Or how about the Lumen family of games (NOVA, Light, etc.) I wonder if something like that which greatly simplifies everything but still has some tactical "meat" might work for...

Great point, and I think that more succinctly captures why Shadowdark does clockwise turn order and features regrouping: it preserves turn order and avoids spotlight hogging "at all costs." It's such a boardgamey way of doing it, but that's precisely why it works so well and feels familiar to...

Taken separately, sure. But I think the thing is that all of this stuff plays together: Real-time puts a meta-game pressure on the players to move forward. Real-time doesn't work when tedious tasks take loads of time but aren't especially fun to play out, so fast-forwarding the real-time...

There's also the parts that talk about Time Passes and Regrouping. Those two rules (which can work separately or hand-in-hand) state that you can burn down the real-world torch timer at a faster pace when necessary, and changes when encounter checks are rolled. So that's why rounds still...

For me, it's physical dice all the way. I've got gobs of them, plus a cool dice arena tray from Forged Dice Co., so why not roll them? When I play online, I don't care what my fellow players/GMs do: digital, physical, whatever. I still vastly prefer rolling my physical dice, but if the VTT...

I was just invited back to discuss the scenario we used for the one-shot, ALIEN RPGs and their history, as well as the movie ALIEN: Romulus and the ALIEN franchise across all media! If you're up for a spoiler-filled discussion between 4 nerds, check it out!

Xenomorphs weren't worse than people.

I got to run a game for the Enter The Nerdom podcast, along with special guest Dan Mason: this time it was ALIEN The Roleplaying Game! Here’s where you can find Enter The Nerdom Ep. 46 – Alien RPG Tabletop; if you don’t see your favorite podcast venue of choice, check again in case I missed...

Death In Space Vast Grimm, a Mork Borg spin-off I've actually combined both and run Traveller with it, because I never liked Traveller's rules. It went extremely well, and we had two scenarios that had a very ALIEN-like feel to them.