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My guess is that this one will rate quite high on the "haven't heard about it" score. While it's nearly 30 years old now (!) and had some good penetration in certain circles, it's mindshare had mostly petered out by the 2010s. The only line that's actively supported now is Heavy Gear, mostly...

Have you played or run the Silhouette system? It's the rules system used by the RPGs of Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, Tribe 8, Core Command, and Gear Krieg, as well as being released as a standalone core/generic rulebook. If you have, what did you think of it? First released with the Heavy...

This was one of the 'hurdles' for us to overcome when we started playing FATE (and primed us for additional similar games, such as Mouse Guard and Cortex Prime-based campaigns). We were used to games that had many heavily siloed or restricted areas and it was a shift to go to one that said...

Likewise for me. I love it when the players are creative, and I recognize that the rules are a means to an end. I don't want to approach it in a way that would restrict either of these. So long as the what the players are doing are within the spirit of the intent (creating an adventure and...

They are very important to me. A well designed layout/book/look is great for bringing the world and it's themes and tone alive. It's one of the reasons for my totally healthy and not at all obsession with designing character sheets -- we spend so much time looking at the thing that having it...

Aye, but the important bit for the purposes of the discussion, and the data on transitions I was using, isn't about length of development, it's impact/rapidity on the uptake after it is introduced into the common marketplace. Likely yes, I was using the shorter value to hedge for "one of the...

From the National Museum of American History (a branch of the Smithsonian): Refrigerators were adopted faster than just about any other technological innovation of the 20th century. They made their debut in the teens, and 30 years later, over half of Americans had them. If it took 30 years...

Part of what makes this different than what's come before is the speed. To convert from horses to cars took decades. From leeches to medicine took decades. From ice boxes to fridges... you get the idea. With what's occurred with generative AI, for artists it could be a year or two...

As someone who occasionally teaches storytelling, I will say that discussing things can be downright difficult as so many of these terms are used interchangeably: plot vs narrative vs story vs work vs world vs sequence vs path vs events vs etc. And just when you think you've got them figured...

Their previous post on the subject is particularly sharp and worthwhile remembering (both here and in general -- Boeing comes to mind): "we may be the customers of Wizards of the Coast, but we are not the customers of its owner Hasbro. Hasbro is a publicly traded company, and its "customers"...

Lots of good ones in this thread already, and I'll put in DP9's Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles core books. Delightfully evocative, especially for the era in which they were first published (Tribe 8 is also likely very good in this way, though I never got into it).

On the other hand, WEG's Star Wars ran for many years with plenty of sourcebooks for many elements of the universe (some of which became canon). It also had additions for the comic series, Heir to the Empire books, and etc. It was quite the licensed SW juggernaut (with the HAVw A6 itself being...

Hmm, putting this into a google maps-like interface could be a lot of fun to navigate around...

This is an interesting one for me. When I first heard about it, I thought I was going to absolutely love it. Dice pools are my thing (even if I’m not always keen on specialized dice), and the idea there was this double axis of resolution that included nuanced outcomes and foster narrative...

Hmmm, that was my previous understanding as well... This could very well be one case where wiki has laid me astray: "The game mechanics for the fifth edition of Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game are built using a combination of the Genesys Roleplaying System and the "Roll and Keep"...

Ah, I'd seen that they were similar but hadn't realized they were that related. I'll update the intro, thank you!

With the announcement of the revised Star Trek Adventures, it would be a perfect time to grade the 2d20 system – but we’ve already done that. :) And so, instead, let’s go to a different galaxy, perhaps one far far away… Have you played or run the Genesys system? Taking ideas begun with their...

Haha, I put those on my wall as well. I mean, how could we not? ;) Aye. Still have them, and don't think I've looked at them since the day I got them...

What was amusing was how the Forgotten Realms Trail Map (think a huge fold-up road-map style map) and the Kara-Tur Trail Map didn't quite align with each other when you put them together... the explanation given was that they were "drawn by cartographers from both realms going from the coast...

Indeed! I have the LUG Dune book, though I never gotten the chance to play it. I also find it immensely amusing that LUG had both Trek and Dune, and here we are years later where once gain Trek and Dune are being published by one company. :D