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I think whether they are dead or not, it's clear that they are not successful. WEG D6 still gets a ton of play both at home and at cons, but I don't think you can list it as successful. I wish Gallant Knight Games the best of luck, but I'm not sure 2e D6 is making big waves in the community.

No. No. I think they are designed to play once and that you'd need the right group of people even for that.

I definitely should have mentioned Savage Worlds.

It's still relevant 10 years after launch. The company that published it provides steady employment for its employees (even if just a one man publishing house) producing content for it without big boom and bust swings. In other words, it is to paper what Stardew Valley or Skyrim is to video...

Gosh I don't even know... Let's go with the metaplot... Session #69: Ministry for Redesign gets excuses

What do you mean by "people"? If you mean "human", then definitely not. They don't really seem to have human motivations or personalities. Yes, they have a personality, and decision making, and the ability to operate somewhat independently, and they have a sense of self and yes definitely a...

You are creating a distinction here that I don't believe is necessary. They are both programmed and sentient free-thinking creatures. They are both property and sentient free-thinking creatures. That's not ambiguity. That's a failure to recognize the possibility of categories that exist...

So, like one thing in common suddenly doesn't make the gulf vast? Did the Clones have their ability to feel pain rewired? Did the Clones have their sociality and desire for communion rewired? Did the Clones not experience childhood? Did the clones not have to practice things to learn them...

They were definitely slaves and the difference between them and a sentient droid is still obviously vast. For one thing, the modifications to the Clones were minor, too minor to consider the work to be significantly different from a human. They weren't made from scratch as an independent...

I very much do differentiate by the mode of creation. To simplify here, in the US Declaration of Independence, Jefferson writes a line about "All men being endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...". Whether you read that as a personified creator or as Jefferson probably did...

So, in Chopper's case it is probably a response to the droid's programmed desire to serve its owner and prioritize their needs and happiness, as filtered through his experience as a droid whose owner is a rebel soldier. It's owner needs to have a droid that is a killer, and so it becomes the...

I think Star Wars has by far the best and most thoughtful depiction of AI in all of entertainment media. I think Star Wars shows that reaching for easy classifications when the thing itself is something novel and with qualities nothing else possesses is a mistake. Is K2-S04 complicit in the...

The irony is that Obi Wan was in ANH dressed like a farmer, not very differently than Owen Lars. This is fitting because he's presumed to be in disguise. But for some reason in the prequel trilogy, Lucas decided that those robes were now so associated with the Jedi that it would be good visual...

If anyone is looking at the Jedi as anything but highly flawed fallible people at this point, then they aren't paying attention. Yoda and Obi Wan are coming off badly by the end of the original trilogy, and the prequels really didn't make it any better. I thought the character of Luthen fit...

When his adopted father was hung he was arrested for attacking a Storm Trooper. That's how the Empire had an image of him in their database.

There were lots of things that suggested Luthen was a Jedi of some sort, most importantly his monologue to Lonni which now after he's been given a backstory so doesn't fit the character that the most logical explanation is that it was all an act to keep Lonni on board. The truth is, Luthen had...

Cassian also was in a juvenile prison much of his early life. So now it just seems like, "Cassian feels compelled to lie about everything."

The Ghor are a wealthy people. They'll have thousands if not millions of light starships - yachts, shuttles, light freighters, etc. Unless the Empire is prepared for a total naval blockade over an extended period involving a fleet larger than massed for Endor, people will get off world. Heck...

Like most of the Empire's ill-considered crackdowns, I would presume that even if the Empire kills off 90% of its 800 million inhabitants, the surviving 80 million provide the Rebel Alliance with 400 legions of partisans because well, they have motive now. Crapping in your own back yard has...

No, she was not cut out of planning. She was only cut out of tactical in that they were bringing in someone who would be willing to kill Imperials to get the job done. She was given 48 hours to come up with something. This wouldn't have been hard to do. You don't need a lot of planning...