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It's worth remembering, that wasn't a marketing strategy, that was a legal settlement-- that WotC bought off in 1997.

Do people not remember the acrobatic marketing D&D engaged in trying to avoid Fifth Edition being called Fifth Edition? Has nobody noticed that none of your 5e D&D books have "Fifth Edition" on the cover, and wondered about that? It's going to be Sixth Edition, whether they like it or not, and...

Well, if we're opening up the table to games we wish would revert to an earlier state and then get a new edition... Alternity Science Fiction Roleplaying, based on the original rules but incorporating some of the most popular house rules. With the settings intact-- the non-licensed ones, at...

It occurs to me that there is practically a one-to-one correspondence between the works and franchises I might suggest in this thread, and the works and franchises I would list in my personal Appendix N. Mario, He-Man and She-Ra, Phantasy Star, BraveStarr, Galaxy Rangers, Thundarr the Barbarian...

Reminds me of the time I sat down and figured out that by the most generous interpretation of AD&D's Weapon Proficiency rules, I was at least a 15th level Fighter. Can't imagine what actual trained soldiers and martial artists are like...

Serendipity.

Three week supply of medication, no wheelchair, Wyoming winter in my bathrobe and slippers? Sure. I grab my cellphone, my tablet, and my friend's Steam Deck, and my pistol case. I take the pistol out of the case and I put the electronics in it so that they have a better chance of surviving to...

Masters of the Universe. No, I'm not counting FASA. I'd be happy to count Legends of Grayskull if I thought there was a snowball's chance in Hell we'll ever see it again,.

The RPG primarily focuses on the Resistance in the Future, in the 2020s and 2030s. It has a little bit about the Player Characters going back into the past in hot pursuit of a Terminator, but the core book only had the license for the first movie and the Dark Horse comics and the T2 supplement...

I don't feel like I've been the target audience for Official D&D for fifteen years and counting, with practically everything WotC has published and practically everything they've said about what they've published since 2008-2009 or so confirming that they don't consider people like me to be a...

I'm always multiclassed. I'm always gish, and I'm always a skillmonkey. If a game doesn't allow me to meaningfully indulge that fantasy, I don't play that game.

I think there are a number of reasons why we can't compare Baldur's Gate 3 directly with a published Adventure Path. Most of them (that I can recognize) have been brought up on this thread already, but I think there might be some value in gathering them together: The Origin Characters, and the...

I don't have a problem with it conceptually, but I think it's too much benefit for too little investment-- any Druid's going to have a WIS in the 16-20 range and most Druids are going to have the minimum 13 DEX to qualify and not much more. They'll be one level behind on spells and ASIs as a...

Lot of love for Alternity here, warms my heart. It's #1 on my list, with the "standard" AlternityRPG.net house rules and the original campaign settings: Star•Drive Dark•Matter Gamma World (5e rules with 4e content) I'd like to see Star Frontiers and Buck Rogers XXVc again... as modified D&D...

First... as above, this is an Out of Character problem and it asks for an OOC solution. Talk to the player. Second... ask your problem player to write up her next character-- "as evil as she wants"-- but ask her to provide you a list of people, or institutions, or principles that her character...

Except companies do it all the time, and it usually works out for them. I'm not endorsing their values or even their strategy; I'm just pointing out that "choosing a side" and deliberately alienating a chunk of your audience that you didn't have a good grip on in the first place... is a strategy...

You need to remember that unless Paramount pulls their license-- which they may or may not even be able to do without a clearly-defined cause-- that said "bad publicity" would gain them many more sales than it would lose them. Approximately half of American voters agree (or are at least vote for...

It's hard for me to give the system a simple grade because it was attached to several of my least favorite roleplaying games, and also to one of my favorite games of all time. I could-- but I won't-- go on at length about everything I hate about the World/Chronicles of Darkness games, and the...

Implicit in every argument that the narrative-- fluff-- description of a class is not rules-relevant and that classes only describe the discrete mechanical abilities of the class is an argument that they should be allowed to play like that at any table they sit down to. They are just as much...

There's that 3pp Warlock conversion for PF1 that never got officially published-- The Avowed-- that had the literal option to use yourself as your Warlock patron. Alongside the standard options (fae/fiend/dragon/genie/goo), warlocks of nationalism, etc etc etc.