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I haven't read the new Vampire, so I can't comment there, but the NWoD Werewolf stands up well next to the old version, IMHO. The catch is that you need Predators and/or Hunting Grounds: Rockies to really see all the themes at work, and get examples of how to use them in a campaign. The rulebook...

When DMing, I like to know the answers to these kinds of questions, but I don't go out of my way to make it clear to the players. If they want to investigate or speculate, then great, but I think it can also be cool if they don't exactly know how it all happened. Consider some real world...

They state explicitly early on that the main theme is "Power Corrupts". I'm kinda pondering whether it'd work for a modern day Lord of the Rings-inspired campaign. The book says that the ST makes a paradox roll when: - the mage casts a vulgar spell - the mage casts a covert spell that a...

Hmm. It's very shiny. The rules, on first read at least, are miles and miles better than any of the previous versions I've read (I'm pretty sure there's at least one version I haven't read, so it might've been comparable, I dunno). Very strong treatment of magic, two thumbs up just for that...

Let's not, since we don't have anything other than vague wishful thinking on which to base this assumption. Monte has a product he wants to publish, presumably he actually knows how much it'd cost to put it out in various formats, let's just assume some basic level of competence on his part and...

On something of a tangent, I'm actually happy to see Monte experimenting with a product clearly not aimed at everyone. I have different gaming needs than a demographically average gamer - I'm older, have been playing longer, have less free time but more disposable income, and am probably more...

I think it has a better chance of finding a market as an SFB product rather than Trek product. AFAIK, the GURPS books are selling decently, mostly to folks who are at least aware of the wargame and know it's a little different from Star Trek. I already have the GURPS PD and Klingons books, so...

Hmm. Or given that they're a lion/eagle cross, they may have their origins in vastly misinterpreted lions and eagles. Occam's razor and all that. I've had Neanderthals as one of the races in my campaign, but not specifically as an orc replacement (at least not in the "disposable bad guys that...

I believe some AEG folks have commented over on RPG.net that they'd like to publish supplements for lots of modernish genres. Whether they do so is dependent on sales. And on that note, if Spycraft 2.0 sells anywhere close to as well as d20 Modern has, AEG will be jumping for joy and doing...

Well sure, but being champions of good means a lot more if everybody's trying to kill you. Anybody can be a champion of good when it means half the supernatural beings ripping the earth apart are now on your side, but it takes a real hero to do the right thing when it won't stop the angels from...

I think the idea is that the better side of humanity is already safely out of the picture, so from the Angels' point of view they're operating in a free-fire zone. Mortals battle Angels for the same reason they battle Demons - so as not to get killed by them. It'd make an interesting series of...

It might be that I wasn't paying close attention, but that was the impression I got from TPM - midichlorians were an organism whose presence was correlative without necessarily being causative. I never really understood the hatred for the concept as a result. In fact, it makes more sense to me...

Finding out prices of nukes is difficult. The closest thing to a man-portable nuclear weapon that anybody's admitted to building is the Davy Crockett, which had a 51 pound warhead. Unfortunately, I can't find a cost specifically for the warhead (the cost without the warhead works out to around...

I think it did well by "RPG-other-than-D&D" standards, but not well enough by Hasbro/Lucasart standards. I suspect that if the RPG is ever going to see a revival, it'll be via the minis game.

Well... kind of. The Warmain, the Unfettered, and the Mage Blade certainly are designed as the armoured fighter, Dex-based fighter, and fighter/spellcaster respectively. Otherwise, not so much - one of AU's strengths is that many of the classes are multirole. The Witch, Totem Warrior, and...

Because as I said in one of the parts you snipped, my opinion is the UA classes are not particularly well balanced. I consider figuring out the balance problems and coming up with a better approach more work than adding hit dice and a spellcasting progression to the True20 classes, YMMV.

They're not, really. Use something like wound points, armour as DR, and/or a lower massive damage threshold for grittiness. The generic classes are really just another philosophy of accessing a wide range of class abilities, by getting them through feats instead of multiclassing. I found UA's...

Those are actually the only type of prestige classes that I have when I run a campaign. I don't really like the generic prestige class model, where PCs take 'em just to get cool abilities - I'd rather make the cool abilities feats than force a player to jump through the prereq hoops just because...

Werewolf: The Forsaken (and the WOD core rulebook) from White Wolf. I didn't much like Vampire and Werewolf in the 90s, but the new version was a really pleasant surprise. The rules are a lot more coherent, and the setting isn't nearly as angsty. I'm almost tempted to pick up Vampire: The...

They didn't hold the draft, just the lottery. The first pick is set, everything after that is going to be pretty interesting to serious hockey fans. And that goes next Saturday. So far as the timing goes, the only significant live audience for any of the pre-season stuff is in Canada, and...