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Have you looked at 5E? IMO, they addressed many spellcaster issues. For example, instead of a fireball automatically increasing damage based on the caster level, you need to spend a higher level spell slot to get more damage. This feature was then leveraged to good effect across many spells for...

Jung's on Second?

I went all in on the Kickstarter for the nostalgia factor, though I still have the original Melee/Wizard Micro-games from my high school days. Not a lot of changes in the new edition (called the Legacy Edition), and there's been a ton of support for it.

No, I think we'll call it West World. That shouldn't be a problem, right?

A copy-faded version of a logo stolen from a large corporation I can advertise my products with? Sign me up! I just wish I knew about this before I published my game "Boot Hill: New Genesis". Don't ask to see it. It was a limited run of mumble copies and we sold everything, even the mockups and...

Well, of my current games, one is D&D 5E and the other is a Savage Worlds sci-fi setting. But when those end, I'm looking at the following (already own them all) as a possible fantasy-but-not-D&D-alternative: The Fantasy Trip - actual old school that has nothing to do with D&D. Have run a few...

Nah, it was the friends we made sued along the way.

Maybe @DLIMedia should do a review of the Star Frontiers: New Genesis 1E and see if NuTSR can produce a copy to refute it. I mean, sight-unseen, such a review can probably accurately assume "Unimaginative use of the d20 OGL coupled with a morass of misspellings and poor grammar makes the...

Yeah, but brought up by who? Seems a dangerous tactic for the La Naga side to do, unless they can actually introduce the physical product as evidence (along with ISBN, print run size, sales receipts, etc.)

My understanding was that it was just “TSR” had lapsed as a trademark, which lead to the couple of iterations of the company we’ve had recently. I don’t think Star Frontiers as a trademark was up for grabs, but I may be wrong on that. The copyright though, was always WotC’s since they bought old...

A common mistake made by wannabe raiders attempting a Viking funeral.

Yeah, I'm just thinking in this particular case allowing an artist to retain the rights to a company logo seems like you'd have to really, really not know what you're doing when purchasing said artwork. As @Jer said, I guess LaNasa is trying to prove that was the case with OG TSR by getting the...

But how was his spelling?

So wait, even as the original artist, Darlene giving nuTSR permission to use the image isn't a thing that can happen, because she sold that work to OG TSR, who then turned it over to WotC when WotC purchased them, correct? WotC basically owns the copyright for the logo? Literally, they own the...

Originally the comment was talking about Ernie's writing style being similar to the text of Giantlands. But my understanding is that he didn't have anything to do with the writing of GL, which is what the other commentor might have meant.

I ran a playtest version of CHILL (until it and the company making it vanished due to licensing screwups) which used the exact same crit/fumble mechanic. I liked it because of the little extra excitement at the table rolling doubles brought. It also used a "blackjack" mechanic where you wanted...

I've seen it explained that it's often a tool to gauge interest, and make sure the cost of an initial print run is covered. After that it's easier to do reprints as demand dictates. But I suppose it really depends on the company's size and experience. For some it may simply be necessary to...

Able-ist implications aside, it's interesting how much of the game text shown in the Twitter thread seems to have this "other games do this, but we don't, because the other way sucks" tone. If they eliminated the attitude, I wonder what the page count would have been.

Regarding in-house crowdfunding, Pinnacle Entertainment Group did this last fall with their new edition of Super Powers Companion for Savage Worlds. It had a few hiccups as their first one but was pretty successful. They seem to be taking a mixed approach, as they had a Kickstarter for another...

To make it a tomb for ... umm ... mammals?