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The problem with that logic though is that there are a finite number of ways to generate probability when it comes to games. Eventually you have to repeat or it becomes tedious. Roll dx Roll 2dx Roll 3dx Roll 4dx Roll (and you see the progression) Alternative styles such as roll and keep...

Which is why we are see such popularity of Savage Worlds, BRP, and Cortex. They cover a broad range of settings. I think Monte's Cypher system would definitely fit the bill once, if ever, he would decide to make a generic book. That is if someone doesn't beat him to the punch.

I think one of the other problems with WoD in general the more I think about it is the whole faction system. There are too many factions and the game is very political. Clans work to some extent but perhaps it would be better if they just gave a couple examples and then rules for creating your...

I've been following WoD lately wondering the same thing and discovered this recent release that just popped up on DriveThruRPG a couple weeks ago. Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle It appears they are starting to get smart and doing self contained setting/rulebooks now so anyone getting...

I agree, I liked the Serenity game. However since they couldn't cover Firefly it just didn't seem to be enough. Firefly should fill that need and be way better since they can cover more of the 'verse.

Didn't sound too bad until you hit that line. Not sure I or a lot of other gamers want to use an interface in a game where we're constantly forced to look at ads.

Good reply and I or someone should compile one. Short list in the mean time: D&D Next Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space 50th Anniversary Edition Firefly N.E.W./O.L.D. The Strange TimeWatch I got it on the short list. :p

Monte Cook Games released the Numenera Bestiary today to the general public; Kickstart supporters have had it for a couple of weeks. Here is my initial review of the book just from glancing through it real fast and by that I mean five minutes after downloading and before heading to class. The...

It's so you can have a difficulty scale of 1-10 on a d20 that surpasses 20 to represent completely impossible actions. At most you get to add maybe a +2 to a roll so if you rolled a 20+2=22 you will still never be able to do some things that are completely impossible. If you have a difficulty...

The Bestiary released to Kickstart backers this month and hits the regular market next month, but yeah, really only the one book. We'll just have to wait and see what they come up with.

I see what you did there. ;) I would agree that it definitely depends on your group as a whole. "Book of Erotic Fantasy" was actually a decent book but when it came out there was no way I would run it with any of my gamers. While it was focused toward the d20 crowd and this one will be fore...

I have to admit the different aspects may be worth covering since it is set a billion years in our future if only to see the speculation they have thought of. It will be interesting if they take the sex part to the extreme in vein similar to "Demolition Man" where humans don't copulate anymore...

Don't know if anyone else on here has seen the recent post on Facebook from Monte's camp. I'm not surprised by this release though I wonder if it is a little to early in the game's development to release.

Thank you. I had tried to do a general search using just cupcake but results were overwhelming of course.

I was reading the comment thread for the Metamorphosis Alpha Kickstarter when I followed a link to a Twitter post by Jamie Chambers mentioning he had a rough copy of the game on display at his booth at a con. I'll stay out of the whole debacle related to the MA as I don't feel like discussing...

The person being hit by it probably doesn't want it. :p Looks good though!

Pretty good review overall. It should be clarified that the XP cards are optional and anything may be used to represent XP in the game, i.e. poker chips, M&Ms, coins, whatever. Another point about XP and GM Intrusion is that if the players refuse to allow the intrusion they have to spend XP to...

One would think it would be simple, but the “One True System” is actually very existential in nature. It’s just another part of our psyche we are trying to understand or at least some of us are. It’s definitely a fallacy in the sense that no matter how hard a person tries to find the perfect...

I will agree with this. Though the two to three systems needs to be streamlined enough that they lend themselves more than one genre. Which given the recent trends with Fate, Gumshoe, and the few others we are starting to see that evolution. I think a lot of that is because designers are now...