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There's also the MMO players who spend years learning and analysing the system and publish their assessment of how to improve the healing rate of <Class> by a whole 1.4% over any other healer build. Computer gamers are perfectly capable of very detailed analysis of the games they(I too) play...

The latest one from Mongoose is the Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022. You can get the original starter set on DTRPG as the CT-ST-Starter Set. The Traveller Book is on as CT-TTB-The Traveller Book.

I'm another who thinks it'll depend on the system. Also on how experienced the players and GM are with the system, if both are still learning then everything takes longer. And on whether characters are already available. I could certainly run a group familiar with the system and with existing...

That would be a first for history, someone finishing painting all their minis. It might be heresy. And anyway you'll walk into a shop looking for something else, see that beautiful Sassanid war elephant that you've absolutely no use for but it looks so nice and you can always paint it as part...

The vast majority of my minis are for wargaming, and there's a lot of them. A lot depends on the type of battle the wargame is supposed to simulate, but decently sized armies can be 400 figures or more. I don't have any full 28mm armies as most of the people I play with collect smaller scales...

Apart from Star Wars, which as a licenced game probably didn't need the hassle of two companies publishing competing versions, did any of the D20 versions of IP replace an established game entirely? I know D20 Traveller overlapped with both GURPS and Hero Traveller (whether people consider those...

Honestly I don't think there's going to be a single entry in this thread where there aren't people who prefer the version that "ruined" the game in its previous incarnation. Which I suppose is a large part of why we have "Edition Wars", because it's hard to have a war when everyone is on one side.

Traveller: the New Era, as already mentioned, was very controversial and still have people expressing outright hate for it where Traveller is discussed. Changing the system and tearing down huge parts of the setting at the same time didn't go over well with existing fans. I sometimes think if...

225 The Forbidden Lands, published by Free League/Fria Ligan. Slightly surprised it hadn't been mentioned already.

Heroquest: Glorantha or the new version Questworlds would be a strong contender for me. While I like RQ: AiG I think it's very heavily focused on a limited selection of available places - basically Dragon Pass and its neighbours. If I wanted to run a game elsewhere in Glorantha or in another...

They might be happier with Monster of the Week. Still a mystery game with investigation elements, but it usually ends with a combat situation where the investigators get to fight and defeat the monster. Think an episode of Supernatural, Buffy with the whole season as a campaign with a climactic...

They pretty much are, in large parts of the world. Spain, Italy, the Balkans, all the Eurasian steppe, Turkey, north Africa, the Middle East, Persia, central Asia, northern India, north China, Korea, Japan (where the original Bushi were mounted, armoured horse archers). Though we should also...

I'd be more inclined to go with three types - Light, Medium, Heavy - and list some examples in each category from round the world that would fit that category, then let people describe it however they like. So for instance, the Light armour category would include the European Jack, Aztec cotton...

Possibly this? Although dating from 2008 it's possibly too recent, but some of the DK books are new versions of ones from a publisher they took over...

Some of the Ospreys - particularly the ones in the Weapon and Warrior series - are readable and reasonably accurate, as well as easy to get hold of. The Warrior series discusses the equipment of the type of soldier they're about; the Weapon series is more specialised on one particular weapon...

If's going to depend on what's available in the environment to a large degree, as anything that isn't available will need to be carried in. Historical armies (and navies) tried to provide anything from 3lbs to 7lbs of rations per day to their soldiers, not including water. A fair average is...

Finish the two campaigns my group is currently on - I'm playing in both, which is unusual. Prepare a TOR campaign that I'll offer to run to replace one of those when they reach a suitable finishing point - which should certainly happen in the next few months for our Forbidden Lands game. Finish...

I'd have picked Swords of the Serpentine in my first two, but having already preordered and got it... Pendragon and Blue Planet, plus one other, for me.

No? Then what is the motivation? I don't think they can remotely claim that they believe the art is "realistic", it'd be very hard to be unaware of the controversies about specifically female art representation in games, so unless they're totally oblivious as to the effect of their art choices...

Quite sure T20 Traveller is a little later. the Solomani Rim War is happening, so at least 990. Perhaps worth adding Gurps Traveller, an alternative 1116-1123(I think the TNS entires went that far) period which doesn't have the Rebellion. Of course the issue there is that many of the...