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If it exists, that would be quite some DMCA to read, if it at all recognizes the material as a jab at NuTSR's Star Frontiers: Vaporware Trails. One could argue it counts as fair use as parody.

I still want to take an editor's pen to that screenshot, too. Do we need to be told three times in the same short paragraph the town drunk is, in reality, a drunk? (With the phrase "in reality" used twice. Ugh.) And once again, why are you explaining RPG concepts in an adventure? Telling the GM...

Aren't most OSR game made without an OGL license though, as they're not claiming to be compatible with any D&D edition that has an OGL not using any material from a WotC OGL So, yeah, there's a little bit of that dance still going on in the OSR community today, as some publishers are making...

It's really kind of a hallmark of NuTSR. Or perhaps the fact that incompetent people often lack the skills to understand/see their own incompetence. I'm actually impressed there were so many "its" in that sample paragraph and none with an apostrophe added.

I wonder, though, if they see this as somewhat of a "generic" system, like the original D20 Modern was. That is, even though Dave says it's about recreating action movies and not sci-fi like other similar products, could you easily create material to adapt the core rules to a sci-fi or urban...

I'm just not seeing how side-based initiative actually improves 1) player engagement or 2) player strategy (or the other goals sprinkled though the thread, such as speed of combat and "realism".) Especially when bolting it onto a system like 5E - the game the OP is thinking of modifying -where...

Group initiative seems to me of having the drawback of ALL the players having to sit and wait while the DM goes through the actions of all of the NPCs. Players may make some reactive rolls, like a save, but mostly it's just marking off hit points if a blow lands. If the problem is players...

Perhaps it's my memory and not my eyesight that's failing, but weren't there more tags in that forum?

Just noticed this problem has occurred again, at least for me. In TTRPGs General, for example, "Reviews" is the only prefix visible on existing threads, only option to tag a new thread, and the only option for filtering. In the Dungeons and Dragons forum, however, I see a total of 14 prefixes...

Getting a lot of reactions to my post. It’s okay. The PCs detonated them on purpose.

Suitcase nuclear bombs go boom.

Well, The Fantasy Trip is actually one of the first to have point buy character creation in my recollection, so that wasn't too random in that regard. Advancements do include the ability to increase your actual abilities, like STR (which was also your hit points), but still unlikely to be over...

You probably should have quoted CaveTroll, because I completely agree. 5E is just "tactical enough" that it satisfies that itch for my players who like that aspect, and not too much for those who want to focus on other things. As I mentioned, The Fantasy Trip is one I'm familiar with that is...

That's ... very close to replicating 1E's turn order. It's complex enough that you probably want to do some playtesting. For example, I think you'll see a lot more archer rogues since they'd always get sneak attack first in a round (provided favorable conditions, like a melee buddy next to the...

That may have been from 1e, where rounds were further subdivided into segments, and there were only 10 segments in a round, so init + speed factor could roll over if they were higher than 10. Also, in 1E “total surprise” (as opposed to just “surprise”) allowed missile fire to be performed at...

It was actually one of the three options for initiative outlined in 2nd Edition. One option was for the group to roll a d10, so one number for everyone, then weapon and spell speed factors were added to that to determine final order. I’m not sure about the “rolling over” bit, because I don’t...

You and I remember those early edition combats very differently. Our group eventually ditched speed factors. We never used the weapon vs. armor charts, and I don't think Gygax actually used them either. Which often resulted in wasted turns when the thing you decided to do at the beginning of...

Since LordEntrails was responding to Ralif's response to my response to his somewhat about-something-else post (follow that?), yeah, we're all talking specifically about NuTSR's Star Frontiers: New Genesis vaporware. Referring to it by its proposed title as SF:NG would probably help reduce...

Oh, yeah, I have a metric ton of doubt whether is an actual product even being written, and that Star Law snippet is just something scribbled down to show "what it will be like." "Slavery! Death Penalties! States Planets' Rights! We're going to have it all!" Or more likely, to just imply...

Yeah, there's a difference between writing for a lower level of literacy and writing with a lower level of literacy. ;) If this is supposed to be a new version in the same vein as the original Star Frontiers, then the game should be understandable by a gaming group of twelve year olds, without...