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The 1e is a better game, and still up. Ship rules are largely the same, but 1e is an 8-att, roll under the relevant att, class determines how XP are earned, not what you can do.

I'm not. I'm just saying having support of various kinds is essential to success.

Many won't. Some genuinely can't. I'm lazy, and I'll admit it. I prefer to use published expansion material. But not without a certain minimum of support, at least IMO. AW got a lot of support early on, not in books, but in Vincent, and his friends (including Luke Crane and Jared Sorenson, and...

Starships and Spacemen had a revival going, then the 2e switched mechanics, and the community other than the echo-chamber of the new publisher ignored the 2nd ed. And even that echo-chamber died off.

CitiTech and Aerotech are both obsolete, as their rules are in Battletech Total Warfare. The dead ones are Battleforce [1e], and BattleTroops. On a bit of rethink, dead: not gaining any new players. But in the age of piracy, that leaves a lot of not quite dead either way. Functionally, if you...

Not by 2015... the 2022 and later are prettier, but still plenty of typos. It's been the bane of Traveller since the 80's.

I find excessive consequences far more discouraging. Both as player and GM. As I said above, a simple failure and move on to other things is indeed the most interesting to me. My groups ask if they can retry rather than assuming, and specify how they're changing the conditions of the check as...

Keep in mind: a lot of US industry cannpt be restored without major expense because it was offshored so as to not have to meet relatively strict state and generally strict federal worker protection and environmental protection laws. So, it's not just reusing the mothballed equipment, but...

They were exploring gates to trying to find a way home... Cidri, the standard setting for TFT is a world united/divided by many gates... it may not even be one world... (In my Cidri, it's a rosette of 6, twice the diameter of earth, but much lower density, built by the Mnoren...) So, this...

I want to recapture the feels of running ALIEN... it's on the agenda, but AFTER Fallout, for both groups. I do hope the space truckers book includes more spaceframes.

They will. Tarriffs are always paid by the consumer, either directly or concealed in the price.

Dying: no further printings, no further supplements, and no willingness to sell the IP. Dead: as dying, but also down to almost no players. D&D as a tabletop game? no. Not dying. D&D Losing a bunch of players? Yes, but it might be drawing in a new audience... Making some dubious choices...

It's not like it's not available... All editions in PDF or on thumbdrive except MGT at $35 per disk; CT has CT, JTAS, and Apochrypha 1&2; MT has one disk, TNE has 2, T4 1... http://farfuture.net

Wed TFT: Gates to everywhere but home.

It was very different from audience expectations, because people were expecting it to be based off the then 15 year old TV show, but it was based upon the 60+ year old comics, which share the names, and the basic personality sketches, but nothing else. The Setting description is actually quite...

Queen Guinevere is special... first off, she's a SHOCKINGLY beautiful woman (App 30 in 4th ed, in a system where normal is 5-18)... but Amor Guinevere is not (usually) the same kind of Amor - it's labeled in 4th ed's text as a "Chaste Amor" - she is so beautiful she inspires you to do great...

When other participants would be bored by the in character roleplay eating a chunk of session. I get fed up with "bypass my having dumpstatted Cha by BSing the GM" types. I get bored when players insist on long in-character negotiations in 1st person mode. I, as a GM, want to know... What is...

I found TOR 1e much the same. Plus the traits in 1e allowing success without rolling if your trait made sense. It's amazing the creative ways pipe smoking came into play... signaling the Eagles that someone needed their attention... gifting some ol' Toby to one of Thorin's Company's survivors...

Largely, some of each. Yes. Trek or Star Wars needs more existing tropes. Alien, rightfully, was a mix. Sentinel Comics was a nice mix leaning towards novel for the market segment. Mouse Guard was, at the time, brilliantly nouveau... unless you knew Burning Wheel or Burning Empires... in...

What I'm saying is "I Reject your claim, because it's false on several levels" There are a number of times where failure is appropriate. Not every "no effect" is a show stopper. Not every action needs a failure consequence other than closing an avenue. "I try to pick open the safe with a...