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Corpos can eat naughty word. They’re the reason why IP law is out of control

I just want these IPs to enter public domain. Hasbro obviously can’t steward them at all. Only a handful of them have remotely suitable substitutes and even then the substitutes cannot use the more interesting ideas. GW clones like Mutant Future and Mutant Epoch don’t have cryptic alliances, for...

There’s a whole decades old fansite for it. Alternity sold very well, over the moon for any typical rpg company according to one dev, but WotC canceled it because it didn’t sell even more. Then took down the pdfs in 2008 and never put them back. I’m not going to try defending the system, but...

I feel the exact opposite. I don't mean to say they're bad or anything (except Alien because Ridley Scott crapped his history channel bullcrap on it), but every single one of those settings you mentioned feel lifeless and gray to me. SD is the only setting I can muster any interest in, but...

I saw the previews. It’s reskinned 5e. E.g. you recharge power armor by taking long or short rests. If they were gonna revive TSR’s forgotten IPs under 5e, then they wouldn’t be making Exodus in the first place. It’s intended purely as a cashgrab on the brand name appeal of ex-Bioware...

Why do Star*Drive and Dark•Matter keep getting forgotten in these discussions? They’re not bad settings. They haven’t been completely driven into the ground like Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, etc have been. I’m completely jaded and disillusioned with scifi, but Star*Drive is one of the only...

Sasquatch snatched the expired Trademark. They didn’t own the IP and couldn’t raise enough funds, so they bombed spectacularly. The company is defunct now, so Hasbro could totally put the books back on drivethrurpg. They could easily contest the trademark using the “prior work” defense and...

Sorry. I think it’s a decent enough broad overview of the technical capabilities of the setting, particularly for someone wholly unfamiliar. But obviously you’d need to do the detail work yourself. I wish Hasbro would put the damn pdfs back up. But if they haven’t done that already after...

This is an issue I encounter fairly often. While I like kitchen sinks from time to time, other times I want something focused. Sometimes I want separate biopunk and psi-spy settings before anyone starts throwing them together. Yeah, settings and systems aren’t interchangeable. Just because Star...

I’ll check it out when I get a chance, thanks

Those seem to be a lot more than just espers. I’m looking for something that is just espers, not four or eight games in one, not superheroes, urban fantasy, fate of humanity, etc. I can probably just kitbash something over a few years myself, but I would’ve liked something that saved me the...

There’s a lot you could do with a spy rpg. Beyond the realistic and the action movie, you can do Espers. Despite the massive potential of Espers for storytelling, I can’t actually name any Esper media except Necroscope. Necroscope further complicates itself by introducing vampires, aliens...

I don’t find it soul-draining to write conspiracy thrillers. I find it fun. I just ignore the stuff that doesn’t sound fun. There’s nothing wrong with just using the old-fashioned Rosicrucians, Templars, Freemasons, Roswell grey aliens, etc. and ignoring everything since 1999. Retro is always...

I have to completely disagree with this. Alternity was very successful during it initial run and was only cancelled because it wasn’t ridiculously successful by WotC’s inflated standards. The Cepheus system is a retroclone of Traveller 2d6 from the 80s, so it’s not more modern or somehow...

These are so obscure that they came from the author's personal site, not the Necromancer Games site.

You're welcome. I originally got interested by chance during a phase when I was obsessed with generic pantheons (this was before we had patheon design videos on youtube) and discovered Eamonvale Pantheon while googling one day and falling instantly in love. Any pantheon that includes Old Man...

Years ago Darkloch Creative Enterprises wrote Grey Citadel and Eamonvale Incursion, published by Necromancer Games (now owned by Frog God Games). They had a website that went dead years ago, but I contacted author Nathan Paul years ago to get backups of the various web enhancements. I'm now...

Pity. Hasbro owns more IPs than they know what to do with. reads through the incredibly generic sounding descriptions released so far Hm... did he bother reading about WotC's various scifi IPs before making that demand? Star*Drive has all the tools he seems to be looking for. Not identical...

Did anyone ask "why didn't WotC revive Star Frontiers, Star*Drive, or any of the other scifi IPs they own" yet?

I'd love to hear if you could find anything! I loved Polyhedron back in the day and I had no idea that it had a Yahoo Group. I archived my groups back in 2019 when I heard about the purge. I wish I had known about this because I would've backed it up too. However, I have some bad news for you...