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Stuff used to get released at some of the big Cons... nowadays that role has been taken over by Kickstarter. Maybe Spiel in Essen is important in terms of the industry...

As someone else already mentioned Traveller has been doing this since the 70s. To give a bit more info: there are 3 physical stats - STR, DEX & END each of which can provide a modifier (positive or negative) to certain skills (very similar to how D&D does it). The exact implementation depends...

I love myself some big, beautiful hardcover books with awesome art and a sense of completeness from a game perspective. That said, I hate it when there is wasted space due to the graphic design / layout. The Alien book by Free League is an example of that: huge margins, sometimes wee little bits...

I completely agree. The scrounging and hunting tables could use a do-over for sure. My group found it hard to believe that after searching an urban hex (87km^2) for four hours all they found was a credit card? We also discovered that there is only a single Vehicle Spare Parts entry on the...

I really appreciate Starter Sets that are useful beyond just providing an intro version of the rules. The Soulbound Box is a good example of that as the "Streets of Brightspear" guide is really good even if you don't use anything else from the box. The upcoming RuneQuest Starter Set also seems...

1983. D&D Red Box. Berea Cycles in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa. R19.95 (which was a lot of money for a 15-year old back then). EDIT: It's still on my shelf :)

$455+ very impressive. I have White Dwarf 1-100 in the original red binders. Anyone have an idea what that could be worth?

Just finished the book. Great fun. It shares a lot with The Martian but with everything is ramped up by a factor of 1000. Not deepest or most profound sci-fi I've read recently, just good entertainment. Without giving heavy spoilers, there is some room for a sequel of sorts (either what happens...

I want a book about books... all those mysterious tomes that have (maybe) a few lines of description plus some numbers (Mythos Rating, Study Time, etc.) but not much else. What's in them? What do they look like? What is their history and that of their author/s? Any other arcane knowledge other...

Not entirely responding to your question, but this is my favorite interpretation of Tom Bombadil: It basically argues that Tom is actually a new Dark Lord, waiting for Sauron to be defeated so that he can pick up his mantle after the Wizards and Elves have departed Middle-Earth. Oldest and...

Fria Ligan's Twilight 2000 Kickstarter just went live and is already 500% funded in less than an hour.

I answered 1-10% as my main game is Call of Cthulhu where all combat is lethal and is mostly avoided if possible.

The MYZ system is pretty "lumpy" when it comes to weapons, meaning there is little difference between different types (there is no variation within types even). EDIT: On reflection that's not quite true for Coriolis, there are some minor variations within types. In the new game, will there be a...

Easy: Bargle. Everyone in my group is old enough to have encountered him and has his or her own story of how the evil wizard met his grizzly end, or the burning desire to see Aleena avenged!

I dunno... Essen feels bigger than GenCon. I suspect that there are way more day visitors at Essen so a larger percentage of the turnstile visitors would be unique. Regardless, very happy to see that numbers are up across the board.

The Lost City - 23 Desert of Desolation - 29 Isle of Dread - 24 Castle Amber - 23-2 = 21 Red Hand of Doom - 18+1 = 19 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth - 5

Loved "Mythos" as well (got the audiobook read by Fry himself). His follow-up book "Heroes" is also enjoyable but didn't grab me quite as much. Seems like there is a third book in the works covering the Trojan Wars, etc.

Those are brilliant... Perhaps a thread is needed to stat them up?

One of my most treasured possessions is my White Dwarf #1 to #100 collection, all in their official red binders. I go through them once a year, get all misty-eyed and nostalgic thinking back of a time when things were somehow simpler: we seemed to have more more fun with less and didn't sweat...

I remember reading this on a forum once: In American stories, the hero succeeds because he is powerful. (ex. Conan) In European stories, the hero succeeds despite being weak. (ex. Frodo) I think that D&D clearly falls into the first category. That said I wonder if there is a trend in that...