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What about gassy gnolls? "By Yeenoghu's knobby flail, I'm regretting those beans!"

I've said this before in some older thread I'm not going to hunt up now, but a "supers first" timeline where the actual publisher was Marvel or DC would have been a fascinating alt-universe. Imagine a scenario where someone in the bullpen came up with some simple rules as a creative writing...

I prefer when companies avoid that sort of thing myself, but it's such a minor nitpick it doesn't seem like it's worth making an issue out of. Had my internal translator running fine by the time I'd finished my first read-through and made a couple of characters, and I found some things (eg...

Well, yes, but the comic version of it ran for a bit over 15 years from 2003 to 2015, spawned multiple spinoffs (with another one coming), and got the kind of sales figures and critical acclaim that lets a comic get a tv series in the first place. And of course Kirkman having done Walking Dead...

All that blathering aside, I don't have a single favorite game in the genre, but Lancer, Aether Nexus and Mecha Hack all rank high for me. If I wanted to run something where the mechs are kind of secondary and the pilots spend a lot of time out of their cockpits I'd either go with Robot...

While I wouldn't call it a mecha game per se, Fabula Ultima does cover mechs (and starships, airships, etc.), primarily in the Techno-Fantasy book. If you're looking for a tabletop game that feels like playing a JRPG first and being a mecha game second it might be worth looking at. It's a...

There was a long period of time when I would have lauded Mekton based on nostalgia, but a recent attempt at playing a PbP (which has fallen through completely) got me to actually go through character creation for the first time in over two decades and my opinion has changed. The game (with the...

The old Hero System Robot Warriors stand-alone game deserves mention as well. The original 3rd edition is available from Hero Games, and there's a (professional grade) fan update for converting to 4th, 5th and 6th on DTRPG over here. As you'd expect, it's supremely versatile even compared to...

Worth noting that Aether Nexus is a cousin of Mecha Hack more than a sibling. There are major changes (almost universally improvements IMO) to the original hack of Black Hack in AN that alter gameplay quite a bit, and even with the Mission Manual for MH (which is nearly mandatory, it adds so...

Much as I like the genre, I'm dubious about any supers TTRPG reliably hitting a million through crowdfunding. You're really getting into niche of a niche of a niche territory with supers TTRPGs, and more general-interest projects still struggle to reach seven figures. Splitting interest...

I think I prefer this one to issue 10's, honestly. Very effective color choices here, although it would feel a little like it was centered too low on the page without the White dwarf logo - so maybe not the best as a textless art print. I wonder if it was specifically conmissioned for WD and...

Nah, leave it as is. It'll be hilarious when over half the votes are in the "Other" category. Almost there now. :)

If it's big enough to be considered a metropolis, the Rock of Bral from 2e Spelljammer, hands down. If you're going to quibble over it just being a mid-sized spaceport city, then Sigil as a distant second.

Needs more Flaming Carrot.

Not for good. About half the total product range (57 items by my count, although some are bundles of three smaller books that originally came out separately) was released post-2000, and while most are only available in pdf some of the "modern" releases got small print runs initially. There...

Raises some amusing hypothetical prospects, though. Who wants to do an indie RPG where the player characters are smuggling Chinese game components into the US, Mexican drug cartels start making cheap knock-off meeples, and college kids make runs to Canada to load up on tiny plastic trains and...

I used to play D&D at the "kids' table" at a community center. We hit 30 players more than a few times, and hardly ever under 20. It was also 1977 and I was 11 years old. Perhaps he's time-travelling to my childhood every weekend? Wait, what if he was actually our GM back then? He must...

Depends on how restrictive the license turns out to be. They might be able to do whatever they like in terms of added material, but it's not impossible that they may be stuck with a fairly snug design straightjacket. We can hope for the former, of course. I got mine already and I won't hog...

I've only ever used DTRPG for pdfs. On the rare occasions I want physical books its straight to the publisher or the FLGS. If course, they'll be impacted as well. Dire times. The fact there may be bible shortages because of this strikes me as remarkably ironic. Even so, I wonder if they're...

Freedom Force is good enough for me, the most I'd want is a remaster and maybe another storyline, maybe something 80's themed. City of Heroes will do for MMO play. The Valiant Universe version should be out soon, and between that and the long-overdue Vigilantes book it seems like Green Ronin...