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Another Librarything user - yet I still managed to buy a duplicate copy of d20 Past recently. I've got about 3,700 RPG products listed there; no way I could remember all of those.

Yes - see gban007's post above. That's the same game I'm talking about (I mistakenly used the date it became available for POD on Amazon). Also, in case it isn't clear, one of the things that happened was that the GURPS Light rules were integrated into the text, rather than being included as...

"Modiphius’ roleplaying game will be the first RPG for Discworld since 1998, when Steve Jackson Games published a sourcebook using its GURPS rules." Seems a bit misleading, given it then became the Discworld Roleplaying Game (powered by GURPS) which had an update to GURPS 4th edition in 2021.

It's not a good deal, recently, it's 5 excellent kickstarters since 2018, and a current 6th one that is progressing nicely. I'm not trying to convince you of anything - you've obviously got reasons for feeling the way you do. I'm providing my own perspective. No congratulations are needed or...

I've backed numerous Mongoose Kickstarters, and they all delivered what they promised, and on time. I've got a lot of confidence in Mongoose.

I don't have the book any more, but I seem to remember mention of the Sith in connection with Vader. A friend of mine has it on ebook and he looked it up for me. The first time we meet Vader, he is described as a Dark Lord of the Sith. We aren't told anything about the Sith except they are scary.

It's surprising how much that small error is irritating me. But I'm okay with Oryly instead of Oryly's. (I assume it's pronounced "O'Reilly" which is also making me groan.) The only comment so far on Drivethru is entirely concerned with commas.

The mere mention of the Stealth Train in that article made me giggle. I'm going to have to dig out my old copy and read it again, but it's probably buried away in a box somewhere. (The version I have is in Crash Priority for Paranoia XP, not sure if it is a conversion of an earlier adventure.)

Or for something completely different, there is the Oddsocks 45 minute livestreamed comedy version, performed during lockdown. Oddocks Macbeth (I'd suggest skipping the first 4 minutes of intro, but not skipping the cast intro, which takes about a minute after that)

Failed five consecutive Will saves.

I voted for 3, because I liked the level of ferocity shown by the wolves (more than 1 and 2, but without the glowing eyes of 4). Although 1 has my favourite castle, and there's something sinister about how Strahd and wolves are apparently so welcoming. At the moment 2 is winning the vote, but...

I once DMed a game where an Elven wizard tried to cast Sleep on a bunch of Elves. (It was 3rd edition, so the chance of failure was 100%; I have an idea it might have been "only" 90% in previous editions.) I guess I'm an evil DM, because I didn't stop him from trying. (If it had been a human...

I'm sure I've seen a thread about that somewhere. (Maybe you did too?) There was some stuff on it that had never occurred to me, like Star Destroyers not carrying any tie fighters (since we never saw any launched in ANH other than from the Death Star).

I think the best use of canon is to inspire adventures. If it doesn't do that, what is the point of it? The worst canon actively closes off adventure ideas. For example, the first Pathfinder book about the multiverse said there weren't any Air Dragons on the elemental plane of air - why would...

According to Wikipedia, Liverpool is derived from Old English, not Welsh.

And also in Icelandic, for some reason, although it sounds it bit more like a slurping noise, in my opinion.

I pronounce it Llewelyn, since I've never heard anyone say it with a second LL. #eh wel in (with the # standing in for the ll sound)

The Map Men have a good video on British place names (no need to single out just England here!) Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

That was the great thing about AD&D. You'd have a long write-up about how druids are nature priests, and believe really strongly in balance in all things, everything has a season etc. so must be true Neutral. And they lose all their powers if they ever stray from that alignment. Then someone...

Since this is 1st edition AD&D, the answer is probably eight years.