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Strongly agree. Palladium Games/Kevin Siembieda has always had a problem with game balance, which only got worse as time went. Also they needed to higher a professional editor to aid them in improving their layout, indexing etc.

First edition Palladium Fantasy Rpg was a lot of fun. No less of a mess than original D&D or 1st edition AD&D in my opinion. It released in 1983 and I ended up taking it to Europe where I spent the next ten years stationed. It was actually my go to ttrpg system until GURPS released in 1986.

Yeah, and the work he and The Doctors did on mmorpg Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic was really lacking at the time of release. They wouldn't listen to feedback before the release, during and after. All three ended up leaving Bioware with The Doctor's basically retiring in a public...

The picture kinda reminds me of my ESO necromancer. heh.

In SotDL, my reactions pretty much always felt meaningful. So I'm not following this at all. Oh and I actually prefered the SoTDL as well. Which is why I am glad that these options are still in the SotWW.

Sadly, that's the most common issue with anything other than D&D these days. Back in the mid/late 1970s and up into the 1990s I didn't tend to run into that myself. I ran across a wide swath of U.S. player due to being military and it just wasn't a problem to get people to try other systems...

I'm a big fan of SotDL, I read the earlier versions (Beta) of SotWW and thought it wasn't for me and I'd stick with SotDL. That said, since the options from SotDL are in SotWW as options, I'll snag it to add to the library because Schwalb does amazing work and one could use SotWW for your own...

I'm hoping that they'll do a 2nd edition Shadowrun reprint. I still feel to this day that 1st/2nd edition Shadowrun was a much better ttrpg experience than the recent couple of editions. (shudder)

I've always looked at Rolemaster & MERP as sort of hybrid ttrpgs. There are a few out there that would fall within both spheres like Rolemaster/MERP do. I also think that HERO system shares the same "feet in both camps" definition as well.

Yup, those definitions make sense. Which follows why I prefer systems like GURPS & RuneQuest/BRP/Mythras etc.

In my opinion SJG just doesn't know what to do or where to go and how to market it and it's felt that way since the mid to late 1990s. I also felt it was an error on Steve's part to pass on the Fallout crpg using GURPs. Ah well, I dislike seeing them do poorly.

Definitely not a big fan of the art style in the more recent books. Stylistically it just feels lesser, less interesting. It's a style, just not one I care for. I can get over that easily since the meat for me is always what's written where as the art just helped me visualize if the descriptions...

Agreed, any book over 200 pages on want PoD. The creator posted back in 2021 on the DriveThruRpg link that one was in the works. After that no posts by the creator listed under the thread. I prefer all my pdf files under one library if possible and since he's got the project listed on...

Got warnings trying to go Greasy Snitches website from the link in the article above from Malwarebytes. The Baldmangames site in the link.

Very much enjoying this interview series. I hope that you'll be able to interview the whole EN team, Michael. :)

You mean tchotchkes, right? BTW I had a good chuckle and agree. Edit: Doh, did a search and noted that there are other spellings of that. I Googled it because I started to wonder if it wasn't some other internet slang term that I wasn't up on. New words, acronyms and slang these days crop up...

I appreciate that AL exists. It does open up gaming to even more people. So it is a positive gateway into the hobby. Though for me personally I find it lacking and feeling more like playing an mmorpg. If I wanted that, I'd actually play an mmorpg instead.

True. I just felt that the poster was listing "old school games" in the overall sort of way and then breaking down the actual lineage of Dragonbane. Reading comprehension failure on my part most likely, a part of getting old combined with a need for a good strong cup of coffee. heh

Yeah, I should have been more clear on my post when I mentioned goblins and the near tkp. Multiple weaker foes in games like BRP/RuneQuest, GURPs etc tend to be more dangerous.