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Bingo. For my Rogue Trader game, we loved the setting, we thought the premise sounded really fun, but once we started playing it we came to dislike the rules. More recently, I tried running Cyberpunk Red for my group and we quickly came to dislike the system. Not just the system, but the...

I didn't play a whole lot of X-Wing, but I thought it was a good game. X-Wing was fairly popular in Little Rock for a while, but I think all that ended with 2nd edition. A lot of people just didn't see the need to update and the X-Wing scene kind of died. Armada was pretty much dead on...

I have it on good authority it's called the Micah clause at WotC.

That happened to my group when I ran Fantasy Flight's version of Rogue Trader way back in 2010-11. In this particular case, after a few sessions, the players and I (DM) had a little chat about how much we disliked the system. We ended up deciding to play something else. Right now I'm running...

It's tough to translate attribute values in D&D to real life equivalents. As it says in my favorite part of the 2024 DMG, the rules are not meant to represent reality they're meant to make for a fun, playable game. i.e. I'm not really concerned about a realistic distribution of any attributes...

V5 set it up so the player characters are all members of the same coterie who have some sort of common goal. Their coterie might be devoted to gathering artifacts, engage in human trafficking to procure specific types of blood for other kindred, enforcers for the prince, etc., etc. You could...

I decided to go with a Holstein look for my Zombicide Blood Bull.

Not even the 80s synth soundtrack? I'd just stick it in Savage Worlds and be done with it.

I don't know how I'm going to find purpose in a post-NuTSR world.

Prior to V5, I hadn't played Vampire since 2nd edition sometime during the Clinton administration. While I like the general setting, with the clans and various factions, I didn't really keep up with any of the lore, so I don't really care about those kinds of changes. With V5, I really prefer...

I would not want to be the studio that tries to follow up on Baldur's Gate 3.

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...