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"In The Hollow of The Spider Queen" reminds me of an old time Arduin cover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin

Life, constantly outrunning ttrpg lore.

To me at the time it wasn't that he came off like a crotchety old man, but more really arrogant and unaccepting of anything that wasn't his idea or under his control. He definitely was a mixed bag at the time, I grew more fond of him in later years.

Loved that cover, it amused me to no end at the time. Jirel of Joiry and Valeria quickly were added into my ongoing campaign at the time as npcs that you might come upon. If I recall, I think I used Valeria as an npc contact to bread crumb the party into heading out into the desert to the...

heh, Good ole Aftermath. Talk about a confusing game at the time, we had a guy who ran it around the time it was new. Aftermath and one other post apocalyptic rpg that slipped my... oh wait I remember know The Morrow Project. The guy was a big fan of anything post apocalyptic. heh. On the...

Cleaned up a little bit but overall it felt like the same game though you gotta realize I'd not looked at and played Melee and Wizard since 1982-83-ish. A friend of mine was a big fan and he'd whip out the pocket melee anytime we were sitting around waiting for our GM to show up to run a...

Too bad, you missed out on some great GDW rpgs in the late 80's to mid 90's with the Twilight 2000, 2300, Dark Conspiracy etc. We played a lot of those I spent almost a decade stationed in Europe and GDW stuff was always in the rotation of rpgs we played. And yep I agree Space 1889 was very well...

Yes indeed, I backed that Kickstarter. Had to get the "I want it all" deal, with really awesome packaging. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/the-fantasy-trip-old-school-roleplaying

It wasn't boredom so much as he lost the rights to TFT. Agreed though that Melee and Wizard were not a true rpg, but instead were a tactical war game. As to RQ, that indeed was the turn off for many of us back in 78-83. While it's a fascinating world setting, it's also too narrow in it's...

Look forward to watching that video you did in 2019 Darryl on the Robotech stuff. I bookmarked it for later watching when I have time. :)

It is indeed a mess, always was. Here's the thing, when it was released in 83', I felt it was really a refreshing difference. I liked having a dodge/block/parry combat system versus the THAC0 of DnD/Basic DnD/AD&D, which always felt more chess like combat wise. Palladiums system felt more...

This. I was so pissed off when they broke GDW. I don't pretend to be a lawyer but I wonder if a lawsuit of that nature would go anywhere today. I recall flipping through DJ at the time of it's release and I didn't feel that the lawsuit had any merit at the time.

Good info. Yeah the original Judges Guild stuff could be pretty bonkers. hehe. I adapted Badabaskor and Citadel for my ongoing campaign back in the 80's. Worked well over all, but there was a lot I ended up discarding and other stuff I added. Something I did a lot back in those days with game...

Yep, I wasn't going to call you out on a obvious typo when we all knew what you meant. :) Also, that word, soo much awesome. Have to mention it to my wife, knowing her she probably already had heard the term.

I was very confused when I read their post, thanks for replying to what they posted and clearing that up. What they posted wasn't matching up to my Conan material. I did snag the John Carter PDF's on a Bundle of Holding some time ago but hadn't read through them yet. Too many books and not...

I'm gonna hope it does indeed go that route. I find reading from a tablet much easier these days but I still love to own the physical item as well. Thanks for the reply Darryl. :)

Wonder if they'll be able to include a pdf/physical combo for Dark Tower. One of the turn offs for me with the other classic modules were the lack of pdf in regards to the TSR/WotC releases like their Keep on the Borderland.

That's great to hear. I planned on buying the game, I just was waiting until the physical books also were released. :) thanks for letting us know this.

Their books are really nice, table books really. The problem lies with layout, that leaves a lot to be desired. They need better indexes, rules in the same place where it makes sense so you don't have look all over the place etc. The game mechanics as others have posted here are pretty...

Of course, it's mandatory!