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Species originated as a word in Latin. Did Aristotle, a Greek, write in Latin or was it translated into Latin? Translated probably, Rome was not a significant power during Aristotle's life and Greeks tended to think anyone who didn't speak Greek was a howling barbarian. Eidos is roughly the...

Not a big deal for "race" to go out of use. Especially given it has a negative connotation for a lot of people. But "species"? IIRC the term entered common use in English with the scientific revolution via Latin, 17th century? Anyone knows for sure (or has already posted it and I missed it) I...

Pretty much... and that's Latinum :)

I doubt it would go well. Not doubting the talent, just designers with different ideas about the direction of the game and wanting to tailor it to their specific needs / goals...

We used miniatures originally (we started out playing Chainmail before D&D came out). Later I used Swords and Spells, and Battle System (both 1E and 2E). Honestly most battles were at the skirmish level involving a couple hundred participants. My favorite was 1E Battle System overall. I use a...

Thank you for pointing out the obvious :D It's not like I haven't used Kickstarter before either. And I did look over the pledges. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever backed a Kickstarter with a physical product that needed shipping from Europe. So, there is that... there, I feel better :)

I'd like to pick up the hardcover Cowboy Bebop book. One question, is it only being manufactured in Europe, and, if so, how hefty are the shipping rates likely to be (I live across the pond in the U.S.)? Anyone with experience of past rates could chip in on this...

It's a brief overview of general categories. Historically a feudal army might employ some mercenaries, but the bulk of it was feudal. In some cases, they employed no mercenaries. Based on type size, "raiders" seems to be almost a sub-category of "noble retinues". A religious order might fight...

Not really. Arneson was an idea guy. Gygax made games. I've played a number of his miniature rules (besides Chainmail) and they are pretty good. Personally, I think Arneson had a cool idea (derived from others, but still cool) and Gygax turned it into a playable game (whatever you may think of...

I was too old to get the Satanic Panic. I was in high school in the mid 70s when I started playing D&D. People thought we were odd because we played board war games and miniatures. D&D was just another game. No panic in it. By the time the Panic cropped up I was a college student / grad student...

I think the reference on "modern armies" is to 20th Century industrialized armies in time of war. Armies in WWII were in this size range. About 10% of the U.S. population served. A higher percentage of the German population. Desperation will do that. It depends on the ability of an...

Religion in my game / world started out as a result of the Cleric in OD&D. It seemed pretty medieval (and we started out playing Chainmail medieval miniatures) so I set up a "medieval" / European type church. I settled on three gods (a Trinity; Order, Wisdom, and Necessity) with (eventually)...

This is my last year. I have 48 years of RPG material built up (started in 1974). Money will be a bit tighter than it currently is (still not bad though), but my time to play will expand. That works out pretty well. I think we will be moving to the east coast to be closer to my oldest child...

I'd add Book 8 to that. Robots. As for ships I separated naval ships into 3 broad classes. Escorts (destroyers, frigates, and corvettes) were a 1,000 tons and under and armed with turrets. Cruisers ran (roughly) 2-10,000 tons and had bays and turrets. Capital ships were 20,000 tons and up...

OK. "Hardish". Satisfied? :D As soon as you get to FTL travel you have left current science screaming in the background. And the game wasn't designed to deliver perfect scientific accuracy. It did present a tech tree that made sense, and was cohesive. You did need to accept some things as a...

Space Opera covered a wide range from Lensmen to classic imperial science fiction to Star Trek to Star Wars. It didn't do "hard" science fiction as well as Traveller I think. SO was designed to allow you to do a variety of styles and it had its own setting derived from the Space Marines...

Traveller gave you the tools to create the setting in 1977. The adventures were up to you largely. If you read Andre Norton, E.C. Tubb, A. Bertram Chandler, H. Beam Piper, and Poul Anderson (among others) it was pretty easy. Background genre reading and the real world provided all the...

I love this game. My favorite SF RPG. Still.

Well, move me from "cross my fingers" maybe hopeful to cautiously optimistic. It looks fun :D

Thans for posting this. A great listen on my other favorite game.