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No, that would be Superhero 2044. I used to own it, but I never understood it. I didn't start playing superhero RPGs until Champions.

1979 according to Shannon Appelcline's History of the Game columns. He has a lot of dates and histories of the lot of the companies. According to Shannon's history, this isn't quite right. Instead it was going to be Chaosium publishing the Arduin Grimoire, but they decided it was too...

You'd need to complete eliminate any synergy between abilities or else have a super complex system that changed the point value of an ability based on a lot of subtle things. For example, buying an ability with a ranged power is much more "powerful" for a character who focused on range than one...

I think there is one big exception to this, though. Players who have the opportunity to get their own base, populate it with followers, build up this area (perhaps adventuring to do so), protect it from threats, etc. tend to really like this. Unfortunately, that style of play has sort of died...

I played in a campaign with an RPG that effectively had almost no mechanical character advancement (it was allowed within the system, but we created characters that were pretty much where we wanted them, rather than "beginning" characters).* The campaign lasted about 6-8 years of every Saturday...

I definitely thought that everything looked the same. It suffered quite a bit from that. Also, I thought the movie suffered from their reinterpretation of the Greek gods. Zeus created humans and wants their love? No, the Greek Zeus is the god who raped the wife of his enemy, that was what...

How about quartermaster? It hasn't been updated in a long while, but if you don't use a lot of accessories (or are willing to adjust), it works great.

Using the very limited definition of "human-centric" campaign, no, I don't. I do like a campaign where humans are clearly a preferred race. Groups where parties consist of many different races, most quite far away from humans, don't excite me at all. Still, give me a part with 3 humans, a...

I will say that the local store that tried that failed. However, they had a lot of things going against them (including alienating a good portion of the gaming community). Of course, one of the two success stories (will have their 30th anniversary next year), was a group of friends who all...

In the license sense, not in the game sense. There is no D20 license anymore, but plenty of gamings are using the d20 system (through the OGL).

I pretty much agree. The exception would be for large scale battles, when changing orientation of large units takes time.

I suspect part of this has been the success of Friday Night Magic (I only know about this second hand, so the details may not be exact). With Friday night being tied up with MtG promotions they had to pick another night, and Saturday/Sundays are not good fits with a lot of locations (that like...

Unless you can go the restaurant like route (soda fountain, etc). Beverages are their big money maker. When Denny's had their big "free Grand Slam breakfast" day the local paper mentioned that they actually made money because of the high margins on the beverages that were bought that day. Now...

I understand that it is pretty easy to get one of those Visa/MC/Amex gift cards that functionally work just like a CC.

My understanding is that it is not that simple. My other FLGS is not a premiere store. He was years ago, but stopped because it was a big headache. You have to take pictures of the area, have a certain number of permanent tables set up as a play area (he is also a bookstore and the gaming...

I think this is not quite accurate. My understanding is that the main change is that WotC is now allowing Premier Stores to sell product 11 days early. The requirements to be considered a premier store have required running the various WotC prestige events (such as Worldwide D&D Gamedays) have...

For the most part, this can be said for any version of D&D, or any RPG for that matter ("re-inventing the wheel" is a bit more important with an "active game since it is in a position to change more easily). There is a place for discussing and navel gazing, but focusing too much on that...

Hammerfast. Not quite as many NPCs as in the old days (when the stats for every commoner might be listed, since it was typically just AC and HP), but pretty much covers the main bases without a pure side dungeon listed.

There can certainly be a thread just on the discussion of this. I would suggest there are a lot of reasons. A few suggestions: 1) Story driven adventures are easier to fit in a smallish space (especially with today's rules sets requiring larger statblocks). 2) Most non-story driven...

I like 4E's fluff quite a bit. A lot of the reasons have been given above. Eberron is my campaign world of choice right now, but if I was ready to build/rebuild my campaign world, I would definitely incorporate a lot of the ideas and concepts. What I like best about it, though, is that it did...