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Well that's one three - adventure series, and the details are quite a bit different from most contemporary D&D adventures. Again, as far as comparisons to Starfinder, the complete lack of magic, religion, alignment, and many other D&D tropes, added on the the mechanical differences makes for a...

Er, sure, if you take out all of the Starfinder races and all of the _magic_ and much of the gear - then it's "trivial". Are you under the impression that Star Frontiers was D&D in space?

Well I'm glad I am not the only one who sees these things largely as clutter-creators. It's a box of stuff that's going to vary wildly month to month as to how much you're interested in it - why let someone else control what you get? I'm more of an "Amazon Crate" or "eBay Crate" fan - you spend...

"One of the great wargame companies in gaming history, Avalon Hill, lives on with more RPG offerings here in the 21st Century. This includes their take on d20-driven superhero gaming, and they’ve adapted their popular OGL/Pathfinder-driven Heroes Wear Masks game to the 5th Edition of D&D." What...

Fair enough. I suppose I could say something similar ;) In case I am coming off as not liking this project I actually am pleasantly surprised - I really liked this game and I've run 3-4 sessions of d6 Star Wars in the past year and my teenagers love it. I'd just like to see a little more if...

Did you really join in here just to share your own personal definition of "collectible" ? Seriously? I might describe myself as a "collector" of exactly this kind of material and your definition is frankly useless in any real discussion. A thing's "collectibility" is in fact directly affected by...

"Highly Collectible" - er, maybe in this specific form but copies of the originals are not hard to find and not terribly expensive. The bindings were solid so most of them are in pretty good shape too. I'm not sure who would go nuts for this or why but since it's Star Wars I'm sure plenty of...

It was a cool setting with some mixed rules issues. It's definitely "dystopian" but it's not strictly cyberpunk (if you were a cyborg the tech was put there by aliens, typically against your will) and definitely not post-apoc in the sense of Twilight 2000 or Gamma World. The "big problem" of the...

Obligatory Reflex Post: Still cheaper than 40K!

It's not difficult to have a conversation with your players before a campaign begins and hit the high points of what you are and are not using from the vast amount of setting lore. Most GM's I know do that. Some even have a campaign intro handout that covers something like this. I've never run...

As long as we can stay away from using "IMFU" we're probably good ;)

Well I'll be that guy then: Dallas was not the first licensed RPG. Heritage had a Trek license in the late 70's, along with a John Carter of Mars game too. Wiki with details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Adventure_Gaming_in_the_Final_Frontier As far as the rest, I get not...

The solution I use for this: Phone with Turboscan > scan monster statblock from book > print > keep printouts by table for use. With a wireless printer this is a fast enough process you can do it on the fly during the game. Sheet protectors + wet or dry erase markers let you mark these...

I was going to say something about an extreme lack of notice about this and express some surprise then I realized there was no link to the actual announcement anywhere in this article. I went to Cubicle 7's website - nothing. I went into their forums and the Cubicle 7 news sub-forum and there it...

The James Bond 007 had a Hero point system in 1983 - that's the earliest one I remember encountering. From the wiki: Hero Points allow characters to perform the unlikely or cinematic stunts from the genre. Characters earn a Hero Point every time they get a Quality 1 result on a skill other...

So this more of a toolkit or guide for using their system in different types of games? "Fantasy" isn't really a setting. I agree with many of the above posters that this looks like the first effort in what will likely be several RPG's using the same system. They've been building up their own...

The rebound effect of lightning bolt might have mudered a few parties early on but by the time people were playing AD&D a wizard with any amount of practical experience knew it for what it was: an easy way to double the damage from that spell, particularly in the universal 10' wide dungeon...

Some hopefully constructive comments on that Triten KS: -"First created, 1 backed" - and the 1 backed was done in the last couple of weeks. This is an immediate red flag. Everybody's got to start somewhere but this indicates zero KS experience and those have a much higher fail rate than those...

You can completely ignore the tomorrow legion details if you like - that's my plan for my game. If your players prefer being part of a larger, existing organization it's there for them. If you as the GM have a specific idea for how you want the campaign to start then it just becomes another...

The article discussed here keeps referring to Marvel's inability to capitalize on Star Wars as a comic book property. That's a very different scenario compared to the Superhero side of things and to the D&D parallel: Star Wars did not spring from a comic book. It was a big, popular movie first...