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I'll have to investigate further. The elegance of the classic saving roll mechanic was how all encompassing it was and how easy it was to explain and understand. It worked well, and it leaned in to the level mechanic of advancing stats to improve your odds of success. For me at least, seeing a...

The T&T Saving Roll is one of the most inventive and brilliant early game mechanics ever devised. If it was removed from this new edition, then I am not interested in whatever they are coming up with....it's like Alternity all over again.

Sounds like the makers of Outgunned should put in a pitch for the Tomb Raider IP.

I'm interested in seeing what they do here but as one of those old guard I'm going to brace myself for thus being a "T&T in name only" scenario. No Khazan, no Lerot'rah, no Fang? Hmmm. As for dice pool combat I published an entire expansion to the game in 1986 to bake in more developed combat...

Exactly. GURPS did this with Transhunan Space, WWII, Hellboy, Dungeons Fantasy, Traveller (iirc), and a few others I dont recall atm.

As a big GURPS fan I get your argument but when I look at this from a new gamer perspective just picking up Tomb Raider, if I were to then have to buy a bunch of FATE books to play it.....I simply wouldn't. Some games do benefit from including the rules (even GURPS does this on occasion.)

I always thought of AD&D as being wargame inspired, that's pretty clear. But 4E's criticism was that it was heavily influenced by video game design. Anyone who was deeply in to World of Warcraft in the late 00's could see the WoW DNA influencing 4E design. The secondary influence was pretty...

I was very much a 2nd edition AD&D fan. I have fond memories of puzzling out 1E, then referring to B/X to solve mysteries such as initiative and turn actions/order. I survived the attack charts when Dragon Magazine produced a Combat Wheel which my group used religiously to figure out attack...

I am so glad you linked that, I had assumed these were out of stock everywhere. Ordered!

I'm learning the system now and my plan is to run it instead of 5.5E which I am thoroughly burned out on. So far I am liking what Dagggerheart has to offer, and am keen to give it a spin. I'll be devising my own setting for use with it, though.

Sorry to hear, though also amazed to know it went so long. I subscribed back in the mid eighties and loved every issue, it was in retrospect the very-very-very-slow paper edition of a pre-internet gaming forum for the day, along with all the fanzines we were constantly knocking out.

A roll low mechanic has the advantage of creating a limited or closed range, which means you can usually have a more "realistic" result than an open-ended system. With games like Dragonbane, BRP, Runequest etc. I have noticed that the players struggle the most when they come over from D&D, where...

I am still musing about how yesterday I got a mail delivery (on a holiday no less) of several packages containing two new Traveller books (a ships book and Bounty Hunter book), Delta Green's latest hardcover, Daggerheart and a perfect condition copy of Avalon Hill's Runequest Vikings. Then I...

I just grabbed this, it really looks like the sort of system I need right now to offset my terminal D&D burnout.

This is exactly what I was hoping Mongoose would do with Dark Conspiracy once they got it, very exciting!

LOL reading that gave me a nervous tick ;-)

GURPS Beastmaster!

Speaking as an active Pathfinder 2E GM and former 1E GM, I always thought 2E was best characterized as "Written by GMs to make it super easy for GMs, while putting those uppity players in their place as penance for all the years of optimizing min/maxer hell they put us through in 1E." But your...

LOL! Look me up if you're ever in Albuquerque =)

Given Orcus is an old Roman appelation for Death (also: Dis Pater, Pluto, etc.) that they borrowed from the etruscans, I assume WotC can only specifically claim his very specific D&D appearance and function as a demon of the undead?