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No, they don't. However, they give the false impression that you need to master the supplements to play the game properly. Thus, D&D is very intimidating to a new players that browse all the rulebooks and supplements at a book or game shop.

Very cool! Although this may not be well understood at EN World, I am very glad Chaosium dropped d20 and concentrated their efforts in tailoring BRP to do pulp properly.

If I what I read at rpg.net boards months ago is correct, there are several changes to make the action more cinematic. Perhaps GlassJaw, who played it, can comment.

It seems that, although the crunch people are more out spoken, they are marginally less numerous than the fluff people.

... which will be split in two books: Conan and Conan Companion (Aquilonian editions).

That's quite a claim. However, I have to congratulate you for the art direction. Those illustrations reminds me some old pulp western that I haven't seen for quite a while. This alone was what first caught my attention to the game.

I play-by-post at RPOL.net. The site provides a dice roller and a few other facilities. Check it out and follow a campaign thread to see how is done.

They may not make a lot of money by themselves, but they surely help to sale the rules book. Sometimes, you can make money indirectly with a product. I guess that, even if Wizards is not making much money with an adventure itself, they expect to recover their investment with the increased sales...

I don't care at all. As Philotomy Jurament pointed out, it is more important to be in line with the author intentions than to the rules as written in the book. I seriously doubt I ever cared to write a NPC under strict 3.x rules as it is a waste of good time. In the same vein, I don't worry...

I checked your website and I have to say that it sparked in me an interest for your A&8 book. I was not giving much attention to it because I thought it was a d20 or OGL variant and I was even considering tracking Boot Hill at e-Bay. However, as it seems to be a tailored system, it is perhaps...

When I suggested the Hackmaster Rules Cyclopedia I was not complaining about the amount of crunch in the current edition -- the crunchy stuff is usually fun to read. I was complaining the fact that, having ten core books, the current edition is not accessible to casual players or even to those...

Brian, welcome to ENWorld. I found your podcast earlier this week as it was recommended somewhere else, perhaps at one of the Wizards D&D podcasts. Anyway, I listened to most of them and it rocks! The two interviews with Chris Pramas were really good. I hope you're considering bringing more...

Kenzer guys, If you ever do a fifth edition, or at least want to attract some new players to the current edition, make it an easier game to get in. First time I examine it at my FLGS I found Hackmaster to be hilarious. I considered buying it, but a game that needs a PHB, a DMG, and eight...

Perhaps he is not irrelevant. I wonder how much of Wizards sales come from hardcore customers that brought most or all of their books and how much come from occasional purchasers. I know many people that buy a couple of Wizards books per year and I think they might be the majority of their...

Chaosium's problems derive from bad management at the time of the CCG bubble and the Wizard's Attic fiasco. Anyway, I never said that a line formed by a single core book, very few rules supplements and many scenarios was the best strategy to the publisher. However, it is the best offering to a...

This kind of content is better given by the magazines as they are already printed and thus easier to be brought at table. Unless they are setting up a great fiasco, I believe they will take advantage of the digital media. I expect to see at least character, npc, and treasure generators linked to...

I became a TSR customer when I first brought the three core AD&D books. At the time, TSR hardly publish any supplement, adventures were their main product releases and the few supplements were quite shy about introducing new rules. This business model is still followed by Chaosium and it is the...

I have a bad feeling that they will charge for useful maps among their digital initiative offerings. This really sucks, but there are some noble souls that are having the trouble to convert some maps from previous adventures, such Red Hand of Doom and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. Perhaps they...

I am more of a mac user, so you have to understand I may be biased. However, if your system is running fine with XP, I would wait till Microsoft release the Vista service pack to clear out the most obvious bugs and tuning the drivers.

Traveller is my favorite sci-fi game but it assumes an age of sails in space setting, which will require some adaptation to the airplane carrier in space setting of Battlestar Galactica. If viper combat is among your priorities, d6 would do it very well, much better than Traveller, GURPS or most...