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Putting this up over here because it was really unexpected and FGU is one of very few gaming companies that have made it to 50 years old (with some torpid stretches, admittedly) so any new material is like finding a four-leaf clover. This wasn't even on their "Coming Soon" page. The last new...

I tend to agree. It was definitely one of the good AE settings by any reasonable standard, and easily adaptable to other systems. Kromosome still feels years instead of its time, and I admit to high degree of faux nostalgia for Metamorphosis Alpha To Omega, having never owned the original...

I've deliberately done that sort of thing with various editions of D&D. The balance in the TSR editions is already so wonky it just means you can use some tougher foes than you would normally. WotC editions are a little more tightly designed and you have to be careful about unintended knock-on...

Out of my fantasy homebrews, I had one where hot was north and cold was south owing to pseudo-gods and polar gates (yes, I do like the Heat Miser and Cold Miser songs), and another where the hot place was just north of the temperate main starting region and a semi-tropical region toward the...

Nothing at all surprising about focusing on a smaller, relatively isolated pocket of frontier space where all of the major players have some interests and goals. Your own highlighted observation explains it just fine. The designers were already squeezed for room and had to concentrate on...

Sentinel Comics' future may be looking pretty grim, but that just makes fan support more important. A few more posts to do just that: Two new heroes for a cosmic adventures PbP I just started playing recently. Doctor Demiurge - a delightfully bombastic homage to Stardust the Super Wizard...

That could be an awesome opportunity for a story arc. Having a dead NPC inexplicably make an inexplicable return offers so many chances for the players to get hooked on figuring out what's going on, especially in a setting where resurrection just isn't a thing that happens, at least not for...

Any miniatures painting enthusiast can sneer at that base canard. I can reach bottles of both teal and fuschia from where I'm sitting, and like most folks who've at the hobby long enough I can identify by them by sight, not label. That's why we put color dots on the caps, y'know.

Mine is a thankfully single-session anecdote, because if I'd done this twice it would be time to quit gaming in shame. I once ran a demo game of D&D for some classmates, bringing along dice for everyone from the masses of them I'd accumulated from various boxed games over the years. Had...

Given the number of references on that thing, I'm docking you points for having Essex and Wessex but not Chessex, Land of the Dice-Lords. Should probably be situated near the eight-pointed Chaos symbol, they were among the first people to stick that thing on every bit of merch they could...

Have a cookie, fringeworthy. :) On a more serious note, it appears that miniatures (and probably some dice) are arriving normally (the old normal, that is) in the US from at least one small UK casting company. Quoting the latest update from Ground Zero Games, who are also celebrating their...

There was that one company doing a new time travel RPG that obviously had things well in hand, but going by my last google search for them they appear to have been erased from spacetime at some point last Tuesday. There was a "Beware the Mellor!" page up for a couple of days but even that's...

Was that particular piece in a TTA book, or in the similar but unconnected Space Wars: Worlds & Weapons? Interesting that neither Empire of the Petal Throne nor Tunnels & Trolls got a mention. Both had been around long enough to have fan bases. RIP, Greg. I like to think he was happy with...

Of course they do. Usually it's related to the amount of metal used in the casting and the number of individual parts involved (which is why you'll see little sprues with smaller bits attached directly to the basing tab now and then - marginally easier to cast and de-mold that way), and some...

That's how I got into gaming in the first place. Loaner armies and some rules coaching from much older grognards back when I was barely out of single digits. Much lapsed when it comes to actually playing historicals these days, but I still pay some attention to the community. I don't know...

Think I'm leaning more toward "extremely fantastical with genre mashups" the older I get. TSR Spelljammer and Talislanta used to sate the itch just fine, but these it takes Aether Nexus or Painted Wastelands to get me excited.

Thanks. Best approach, I think. That creator already has some controversy around them that doesn't need to be amplified when it can just be ignored instead. The Palainians had it right, although I do question how you build a starfaring civilization when your prime social directive is ignore...

Name them, please. Probably never heard of them, but I'd like to make sure I don't accidentally watch anything by the channel since they like boycotts so much.

Nothing shocking about it, Redbox has always been known for their metals and always charged around $10 per fig - which gets them razzed by a lot of the historical players I know, because a lot of their stuff isn't particularly fantastical. Even Wargames Foundry (who works in the same medium...

Am I misreading something? Are they really asking $10 each for unpainted figs, two of which you could easily find proxies for in the catalogs of any company that does historical Middle Ages figs? Spend what you want, but maybe shop around a bit first.