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I got my books (Player Guide, Monster Vault, and Screen). I’m glad to report I had no damage in shipping! The production quality is very high and the books have great art throughout. I’m now looking through the classes, most I wouldn’t say are -radically- different than their 5e counterparts...

Yes, let’s not delude ourselves into thinking any of the BattleTech books are great works of literature, but if we’re grading on a curve (and maybe wearing some tinted spectacles), I still say the Stackpole BattleTech books were a cut above all the other rpg related novels I’ve read - including...

Seconding the BattleTech novels, particularly the earlier Stackpole ones. He does a good job of bringing intrigue and politics to a universe otherwise about stompy robots lasting each other. His novels even do a serviceable job of bouncing around the different factions, giving us different...

I started with Basic D&D, through 1e and 2e. But sometime in 2e, D&D felt like it had been left behind by the huge world of other RPGs that were proliferating. Me and my peers, being young and hungry, dove into just about every other rpg that we could get our hands on. By the mid 90s we really...

I’ve been running such a long Planescape campaign (predating 5e), that I’m too ingrained in the wheel cosmology,* even though it has a lot of gygaxism carry overs and odd choices. This new map seems ‘adequate’ if not very inspired. I am a little baffled why they chose “Hades” over “Gray Waste”...

Safari adventurers unfortunately meet Godzilla

I played in a short-lived Aberrant game. The feeling we got was that it worked OK for doing low-powered 'barely super' type games, ala something like the old Heroes TV show, and that the old White Wolf engine broke down with higher dice pools and powers. I think there's probably lots better...

While Everyday Heroes isn’t a bad take on 5e Modern, I regret giving this company any money. I don’t think I could ever run or play it without feeling gross

I would certainly try a non-canon game if a friend were running it, but my preference would be to leave the original trilogy and prequel era all alone, as shown on film. But anything else would be totally open season. What I’ve usually done, when I want to make things familiar but different...

Thanks for the answers! It sounds like my dream supers game would be a bit of an odd mashup between Cortex and Sentinels. Maybe someday I’ll mess around with that!

Yes, in the games we played, we used a combo of the methods in the book, but what you describe is really what my group wanted. We play supers fairly intermittently, but if we had a more regular game running I'd probably take a stab at building something like that. In know you're also familiar...

I played a ton of Champions in the 90s, but these days so go for a more non- simulationist supers game. I’ve played Sentinel Comics a few times and really like the system, especially the way it escalates powers and abilities the higher the stakes get. I fault it a bit for its character creation...

To me it actually sounded like it had echoes of the Civ 1 theme song.

I played them all from Civ 1, thoroughly enjoying each one of them, so it’s pretty hard to rank them. I’m going to start by saying that Alpha Centauri left a lasting impression on me. What an evocative, creative game of which the like I never expect to see again. For the main line, I think...

I’m kind of the exception here, in that I have no real desire to go back to my first. I was started with the Blume Basic, switched soon to AD&D, and made the switch to 2e without much fuss. All the while I dabbled with other TSR rpgs, Gamma World, Marvel Supers, and Star Frontiers. By the...

Really enjoyed your play-thru! Even having beaten it multiple times myself (and having run a few live versions) I still learned a few new things! Also interesting how you multi classed most of your party, typically I only had 1 or 2 multi classed characters, but I see how they worked very nicely...

I was pretty young when I played this the first time through, so I didn’t catch that the fake Tyranthraxus was a fake. I ran around really confused afterward that he was not only such a pushover but that no one seemed to care he was dead. (Eventually I figured it out!!)

I still like to follow this game even though it didn’t click for my table. Weirdly we were all big 4e fans but 13th Age didn’t quite scratch the itch. I think the 2 biggest missed for us was the scaling damage dice and the fighter’s “roll an attack and then see what ability you get” vs a more...

The graveyard is one of the most atmospheric and thrilling parts of Pool of Radiance and has always stood out to me as a highlight of the adventure. However, when I recently adapted the adventure for live play (when I ran a Pool-of-Radiance & Curse of the Azure Bonds mega campaign), it struck...

We use “Bloodied” and we ported over the Daze condition. I’ve also enhanced 5e monsters with special abilities from some of their 4e counterparts when I’m looking to spice up an encounter. In one of our campaigns, where our players missed the Encounter, Daily powers of martial classes, we even...