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Why not? Pick whatever light-ish rules* you feel like running a demo for and do so. Ask them what kind of hero they'd most like to play and do a pre-gen for them, maybe collaboratively if you think they can handle it and it'll improve their grasp of the game. Run 'em through a newbie scenario...

Yeah, AFAIK they did fine with their KS. Many do. Probably most do. But many don't either, and I've walked into enough of them I no longer do crowdfunding no matter who's involved. I'll just wait and buy if and when it actually gets done. Their release schedule seems to have dropped off in...

I'd say scifi is well ahead of supers, but it's probably a healthy third for new rules sets over time. If anythin is real competition for that slot it's probably horror - but even fourth isn't bad. Supers is an enormously broad sub-genre after all, and when you add in all the smaller, less...

None of those have significantly helped the comics industry either. There's always this vain hope that huge successes in other mediums will somehow cross over into big sales on floppies and trades and whatnot, but it hardly ever produces more than a minor uptick, and often none at all. The Big...

That game needed all the help it could get. Might be the most disappointing thing I ever bought from Chaosium. Did not compare well with Champions, V&V or even (a little later) TSR's Marvel games.

Gotta say I don't have a dog in that fight, and I have bought a few (rather disappointing) of the "new" (post-80s) V&V products off DTRPG out of curiosity. Dee and Herman seem to be pretty good people by all reports, but I confess their Monkey House Games output has left me cold, particularly...

Random used book pile of Murray Leinster scifi for the last few days. Med Ship Man (a re-read) and Pariah Planet (both medical scifi, a subgenre I generally enjoy) were okay, albeit dry and a little slow-paced. They compare very poorly to White's Sector General in that there are no sentient...

Having actually owned that game (even played - once) this was actually a nice inclusion from my POV, and may be the only 3PP content ever made for Other Suns. Can't imagine most people thought much of it, though. Obscure isn't the word for it, and even FGU has apparently lost the core rules...

A quick check tells me that came out in 1983, so yeah, about four years after this WD. Would have thought SDI was earlier than that myself.

This seems to have inspired an entire subgenre of gaming that would start appearing next year. 1980 brought us both Yaquinto's Adventurer (scifi) and Swashbuckler (historical) barroom brawl games, and I'd contend that Dragon #44's Food Fight (also 1980) is a barroom brawl in high school...

Pretty much that. Moreover, it's made it into the distribution chain in a way few other OSR products have, which helps gets people looking at it in stores so that's boosting the fan base as well. Lot of people who still rely on their FLGS to know what's available, and if you can't get a...

That would have been during the mid-80s, but while everything sculpted by Ral Partha that was cast and distributed in the UK would have come from Minifigs, not everything with Minifigs packaging was originally RP. They actually made a fair amount of their own stuff from scratch in the UK...

Licensed product, so that's likely to be the determining factor. How many are they contracted for?

Me, I like a nice nap after lunch when I can find the time.

That's honestly how the majority of supers RPGs play out if you (and your GM) aren't very careful about character design. Some games (eg Champions) are better than others about providing warnings about unbalanced combinations and suggested limits on attacks and defenses, but even the best can...

Missing my point. Ral Partha didn't make that range. They were Minifigs' work, not something they cast and distributed for RP. Even here in the US Valley of Four Winds stuff came in Minifigs packaging, although I can't say whether they were cast in-country by Minifigs US or imported from the...

Good gods. Did they really get the plural form of talisman right in the article after making it "talismen" on the cover? I was expecting a writeup on a homebrew group of dangerously enthusiastic "eye" collectors from the cover. Again, I really don't think Ral Partha had anything to do with...

Let's focus on the really import part here. How are his cobbling skills? How about Gygax Dragonlord? That's right next door to Verbosh, right? Verbosh, Verbosh, Verbosh. Also fun to say. :) I'd forgotten about that Different Worlds review hating on Kevin Siembieda's artwork. Harsh...

Obvious inspiration would be Castle Heterodyne in the Girl Genius comic, although it's probably more deadly (and possibly too mechanical) for what you're after. Still a fine example of what a fortress inhabited by generations of mad scientists might look like, though. If nothing else you can...

It's an old story, but that's still one big spoiler there, given that a lot of the story's impact relies on not being sure what's going on until fairly far in. Don't ruin it for those who haven't read it.