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As already mentioned, that was Minifigs, not Partha. You can see the range on Lost Minis here, and most of them can still be purchased from Minifigs to this day, following a 2015 re-release.

There are three figures in the foreground. The ones in blue (guardsmen) are both being blown around and are off their feet, with the one on the left partly behind the figure in red from our POV - you can see one of his feet over the red figure's back. The guy in red is probably Hero (from the...

Just finished binging the lot. The reviews and ads for new-at-the-time games were a nice stroll down memory lane even on the issues I've never read. The whole industry was so different back then - but so was Kid Me, I suppose.

Good or bad, it looks like you can still by Labyrithine from Precis Intermedia on DTRPG if you want a look at the thing.

Still in the Wild West of casual copyright infringement as FGU's War of the Ring shows, but it would end soon enough. That said, it's 2025 and game licenses are still going strong, so the editor was a bit too concerned about that. Blatant ripoffs haven't stopped either, but at least there's a...

Star Empires was a grand strategic 4X game (long before that was a term) and sequel to the earlier Star Probe (which mostly exploration/colonization focused rather than military/economic). There was supposedly meant to be a third game to make a trilogy, but if so it never came out. Clunky and...

Fourth Dimension was originally self-published, but most folks will be mare familiar with the later version published by TSR. Pretty good if you enjoy Chess-like games.

War of the Star Slavers was badly reviewed by pretty much everyone and manages an impressively low 4/10 on BGG even today, but its cover is somewhat legendary for its impressive 70s cheesiness. I've often wondered what became of the gals they got to stage those images.

Interesting to compare the modern BGG ratings of SPI's Sorcerer (a 5.7 rather than a 7) and AvHill's original Starship Troopers (6.6 rather than 9). BGG is effectively a popularity poll rather than a measured review, tends to weight heavily toward 6 and rarely goes toward either extreme, but...

A minor quibble but I can't stop looking at the cover and asking myself why you'd build a gate at the bottom of a steeply inclined bridge like that. It's just begging to be breached by someone rolling a wagon full of something heavy (like rocks and dirt) into it. Also, is there a reason all...

Traveller too. And Call of Cthulhu. It was a much better magazine when it wasn't a pure house organ IMO, although I doubt its sales were any better.

Legions of the Petal Throne was the first fantasy (or science fantasy, more accurately) miniatures game I ever played, after being introduced to that side of the hobby through historicals. By the standards of its day it wasn't half bad, but from 2025 even rose-colored nostalgia glasses can't...

The triapheg art always reminded me of the style of abstract cover art that was showing up on a lot of European scifi/fantasy around the same time FF came out.

If you mean "right forum on this site" then sure. If you mean "what forum online might be a good place for discussing RPG design?" then you might take a look at RPG.net - they have a dedicated subforum on the subject that could also be useful, although it doesn't see a ton of traffic.

Personal hype level is moderate. But I've still got a beat-up copy of Hero Wars kicking around, so it's not like I've been missing it or HQ. Kind of like BRP. Nice to see an updated version, but I had the big yellow book still, so it wasn't anything vital.

Funny, I know them best as the former publishers of both the Space Gamer and Pyramid, two of the best gaming magazines ever made. There was also Car Wars and several iterations of Ogre/GEV, the latter being one of the few surviving vestiges of Metagaming's microgame catalog and the overall...

It really isn't, at least IMO. The amount of work you'd have to put in to break apart all the bundling at different stages is so extensive you might as well deconstruct the whole system and reassemble it from scratch - or just hack Cortex Prime. A second edition where there was - well, maybe...

He was the primary author on the original book, but had nothing to do with the supplement AFAIK (which was by Tynes, Heinsoo and Law). If Sechi does hold the rights, the question just becomes why isn't he doing something with it, even if it's just lobbying for Atlas to post the pdfs? Or is he...

Method 2 ("Constructed") is the in-between step, and is nowhere near as convoluted as that mess of a random system once you get a firm grasp on which Power Sources and Archetypes offer which combinations of die spreads and abilities. It's still much, much less fluid than point-buy systems are...

You should give Aether Nexus a try. It's quite different, but you can still see the Black Hack/Mecha hack roots and I think many of the changes are much for the better. AN's Armor Dice mechanic in particular is a big improvement on MH's Armor Points, and you've a got a lot more customization...