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Bigotry has always been present in societies. The US, for example, never has done away with it... it's just been hidden. The KKK still exists, still has new recruits. The Aryan Nations — both it's club-like aspect and it's purported church — are still present.

WotC is not doing well per their corporate overlord at HasBro. Something about needing more licensing deals needed to make D&D profitable again...

bought fantasia ultima natural fantasy atlas... the had the Alien evolved KS drop betas for all three components...

It appears the person doing the licensing is Aaron Bledsaw, not Rob Bledsaw II. It's quite plausible that Aaron might not share Bob II's derangement.

I've had players play canon characters in a non-canon one-shot once; it's a default mode for Marvel games. The "Yes" really is a couple more levels... Star characters as PCs PCs as equals to Star Characters PCs as Rivals to Star Characters PCs as subordinates of the Star Characters. I wonder...

Not always. Several sites wait for the next business day before emailing a link; fewer now than in the 00's. Others, such as mongoose, it's not that long (usually under an hour)... but it's still less immediate than the FLGS. And then the crowdfunding. It's a month or two before I'll see the...

probably. Me. Well, not whist itself, but several derivatives... Euchre, bridge, hearts, spades...

A thought on why Star Wars works for me: 1) I let the PCs make wins just shy of the saga mains, often directly supporting saga mains. 2) I tend to allow Clone Wars level cinematic 3) I let players work for series secondaries of note. Both WEG and FFG really enable 1 & 2...

I don't mind abridged rules, but prefer full. I don't mind a short starter adventure, but I prefer several. (Modiphius' STA one has 3; all the FFG starters had follow-ups in PDF; the pair for L5R took typically 4-8 sessions to get through both. Lost Mine of Phandelver was very well regarded...

So my sunday Jackals game - Last session, Philon had inspired the crowd to do a pitch invasion at the circus and tear apart the popular-but-subversive (and Set-worshipping) foreign charioteer. They'd used magic subtly to let the local boy win... and the Foreigner had realized this... So, Philon...

Don't give up hope... I've had a lot of players who had no problems; while the issue you've had is not unique, I've had only 3 players who couldn't get out of the "must play the setting mains" mode. Of about 50 who have played either WEG or FFG with me over the decades. Also, if you want the...

I found my sweet spot at WEG 2.0, until FFG released. Probably my two most played RPGs, with D&D 5e and D&D Cyclopedia being a bit behind them. All into the > 400 sessions run range. Of those four, I'm only willing to run again two: FFG and WEG 2.0 Star Wars. (Tho' I could easily be convinced...

Favorite memory: Running the other, offscreen, part of the Battle of Yaavin: the other 4 squadrons taking out the fighter wing of the death star so that the assault group can hit the trench... (rules hybrid of WEG 2.0, SWMB.) Second most favorite: Nara Nara Binks going crazy with a repeating...

Mine as well. But having played FTF with these scenery chewers, I miss being able to read their expressions. We only sometimes use a VTT... and haven't used video chat because one of them lives in an area where that bandwidth is too much - he has trouble with voice if it's not a sunny day. In...

There are plenty of people who'd love a WEG based Star Wars still... and since LFL owns the copyrights... which is how FFG was able to reprint the WEG 1e core and sourcebook. If the licensee made a good enough case, the WEG rules could easily make a comeback. If one doesn't need them with...

bovine excrement. It doesn't hit top 5 sellers with three corebooks and top five lines for whole system for several years running without popularity. It's sudden death was due to it being handed off to edge by Asmodee when the MF's therein fired all the RPG staff at FFG and handed the IP to...

No, it's not. But before D&D, there really was not a default; and it was years until D&D became the default. The closest to a default for fantasy prior would be Dunsany... and Dunsany is D&D adjacent... Sword And Sorcery is D&D adjacent. Most Planetary Romance is D&D Adjacent. Dying Earth is D&D...

Sun Jackals: One fight, one conversion. Fini. Sun Fallout Session 0, some play. Woot!

one nitpick: D&D did NOT "take" the default fantasy; it created one. As for what I want to see more of is GM's cheat sheets in the back... Like WFRP 1e, or a handful of more recent games.

Yeah, same. And some non-3e news, too... I no longer hit the news page (most of what matters to me, I see in the forum side.) So two gaming news sites gone in Q2.