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The ongoing lack of publisher support and failure to fulfill the KS promises after six years has badly hurt this otherwise excellent game's community. They can't even manage a FAQ/Errata page in all that time. It's interesting that you dislike the chargen system. Not that I disagree, I think...

Yeah, it really wasn't a very busy AMA compared to others I've seen, and he was clearly just refusing to even acknowledge many questions even when called out for doing so. "Overwhelmed by volume" was not a plausible excuse.

Well, that's some good news in a year full of bad so far.

If you can't work in a scene where she sentences herself to death and then also plays the executioner (mask and axe and all) it's not even worth doing.

Everything from Schoolhouse Rock, I refuse to play favorites. That stuff should never have stopped being aired, albeit with a few of them updated as times changed around them. The US has become a more ignorant country for the lack of them. The Time for Timer PSAs deserve a nod too, although...

That's not really helpful in terms of defining size. Real world asteroids vary tremendously in size, from ones smaller than that astereater above to over 580 miles in average diameter in the case of Ceres - and that's just the ones we've spotted in our own system, which are a tiny fraction of...

Utter trivia: "Sude" was the Big Bad in the original Shade the Changing Man comics run. IIRC it was short for Supreme Decider. It was an odd-looking mechanical construct piloted by a regular human whose identity was unknown to the criminal underworld - and somewhat surprising to the readers...

At least in the US, distributors act as de facto gatekeepers to getting your products on retail store shelves. You can certainly succeed these days with direct sales and crowdfunding models, but if you want access to any significant number of game stores you have to get one (and preferably more...

Yes, he does "serious" just fine when he wants to - or the art director insists. I've heard he was a pleasure to work with as an artist for hire, delivering what was asked for when needed and able to take minimal direction and produce something solid when left to his own devices. Always a nice...

You can fiddle around with rerolls some, but the relative lack of dice tricks is a large part of what left me cold about the system. If you don't mind anime-inspired fantasy mecha and very strange settings, might I suggest Aether Nexus as another option? It's from the same folks that did the...

That is frequently true of Champions IME, and honestly likely to come up with any system that features relatively complex combat rules, especially when positioning on a grid is as important as it is in Champions, D&D 4e, etc. I have a lot of respect for Lancer for just accepting that the...

There's no "whim" or "because I felt like it, that's why" so I stuck it under Other.

They both share similar PA wasteland settings, as I said in my first post. There's only so many ways to ruin a world, and both games are focused on salvaging the wreckage of dead civilizations. I've seen reviews and done a couple of sessions with it since its release. Don't care for the dice...

That jigsaw mapboard was actually rather elaborate for its time, and geomorphic in theory (the one in Hammer's Slammers was notably more versatile in terms of how it could be put together). It (and the license) definitely drove up costs a bit, although the whole range was still about on par...

The review is wrong about that anyway. Time dilation during interstellar travel is reflected in the game by varying tech levels for opposing forces - it's quite possible for a garrison that's been sitting on a planet for a few months to be decades behind the cutting edge of technology already...

Interesting to note that Clarence inexplicably avoids death as an example, but since you skipped what's arguably the most common type of demise I'll kill him myself: - Clarence died because the dice said so. Player characters are frequently doing dangerous things, and in most rules systems no...

Y'know, I'm seeing a lot of questions about the rules to this scattered around various forums and blogs that are signal-boosting for you. I answered the more obvious ones in a few spots but there's too many to catch everything, even copy-pasting. You might want to do a follow up FAQ for this...

Save me wasting some time, the dialog isn't actually all done with a text-to-speech machine voice, right? Because if you're going to call yourself Vox Machina, I damn well expect to get a nostalgic flashback to the early days of Drachinifel and Alfabusa's TTS Emperor series.

Considering how flat-out goofy they are, that's probably for the best if they want any hope of being taken seriously. For a group created in 1977 they sure do have a Bad Nineties Comic vibe going on, especially with "Thornn" and "Vakume" around. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, this is...

Oh, and if you're doing fantasy (and maybe even if you're not) throw in some seasonally appropriate stuff from my blog: Ghost Blossom Trees - Not only are they common in untended graveyards, finding a patch of them growing wild is probably a very bad sign. Grandmother's Candies - Good trick...