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I had a dream last night about an imaginary edition of D&D that mashed up its alignment rules with Gamma World's radiation resistance chart. Everything you did that was contrary to your alignment was pro-rated by the GM as having some level of radiation intensity, causing you to take damage or...

I've got it narrowed down to two suspects but can't decide which it is.

Yes, when needed. White Wolf published a pull-out game in issue #42 if their eponymous magazine called Seals of Satan, in which one side plays a team of profession seal clubbers and their allies (including Flipper and Lassie) trying to prevent an Apocalypse led by seven demonically possessed...

It means what it sounds like. Star-Crossed is game that uses a Jenga tower (which you'll have to buy separately) in its mechanics. Given my hatred for dexterity-based games, I don't care for it much myself.

Universe was faulted by both contemporary critics and fans for its combat systems - both personal and ship battles - being too slow and complicated for an RPG. Rightly so IMO, and despite being better received and much better remembered, I've always felt Dragonquest suffered almost as badly...

Ah, Caber Pink, the RPG of Scottish sporting competitions performed while wearing brilliant, non-traditionally colored tartans. A truly unique choice of subject matter, but I really don't see where cyberpunk enters into it at all.

Not applying to play for various reasons, but the setup sounds interesting. Seems like sufficiently advanced science/technology slides over the line into magic at some point, which is a neat reversal of the usual trope. "Validator" is the best title for a freelance troubleshooter type I've...

Seconded. It's not an easy D&D class to portray well, either in fiction or at the tabletop, and Moon's attempt still hasn't been topped in all these years. David Weber made a stab at something similar with his War God series, but it's pretty weak compared to the Paksenarrion books.

Maybe, but almost all my SF play time came after Knight Hawks was out and integrated it into gameplay extensively, so I may be biased. Our initial stab at the basic game hit the Volturnus modules and nearly killed all interest in it for good. As one of my fellow players said, this entire...

"Dramatic coherence" (at least in the OSR community discussions that I've seen) can also refer to putting a predetermined story outcome ahead of actual in-game events. That certainly includes railroading but also extends to fudging die rolls, applying plot armor or homebrewed "life insurance"...

The Dwarfstar solo microgame? Boy, that's a blast from the past. I should probably print the components out an do a replay of that one and Star Smuggler, it been long enough they should be pretty fresh again. If I were going to pick just one of those eight games for a "tantalizing sense of...

I don't know, the White Light mini-campaign in the KH box felt pretty well integrated with the RPG side of things thanks to having a few boarding scenarios, and there were a couple of modules that did okay - IIRC Dramune Run was a decent mix of ship and personal action. The problem for me was...

FWIW, I'd define Day of the Juggernaut as a Knight Hawks (as a board game) scenario, not Star Frontiers. It's not an adventure and has no roleplaying elements in it at all. Instead it's pretty much a bad Ogre knockoff, pitting one very large Sathar ship (and a brood of drone fighters) trying...

It's nicely done, but my sense of wonder is rather badly deflated by the presence of a map of our Earth (or its geographical lookalike) on the gasbag there. A minor detail, but it really pulls me out of the fantasy.

I'd add at least some of the Troika stuff to those, as well as the recently released Painted Wastelands hexcrawl for OSE. All of Ben Laurence's Through Ultan's Door setting qualifies easily as well. The Tekumel and Glorantha settings evoke somewhat different feelings, but there's still a sense...

What, no one's going to mention Rolemaster? It was one of the earliest games to use a true power point system (as opposed to one that paid casting costs with an attribute like T&T's or TFT's Strength), and no matter how clunky the system might be the sheer variety of critical hit charts for...

That, precisely. And since I haven't found myself in that situation since 1979, I really don't do that any more. Sure was the norm in my community back in the 70s, though. Closest I get now is a long string of (quite different) Dwarven PCs in various editions of D&D (and 13th Age, which is...

We'll find out tomorrow, right? :)

SMH. Typos in your advertising blurb are probably a fine preview of what you can expect in the rest of the book. Never change, Mongoose.

That's all on your table, and possibly the slowdown effects of VTT play. I've had the good fortune of playing Lancer with people who were really on the ball with engagement, system mastery and tactical coordination and we were averaging under two minutes a player turn. The GM was the slowest...