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I spent a few hours talking with Raven at a Con in 1992. He was pretty convinced Syynibarr was a revolutionary game. I read through it, and it was akin to seeing a tractor trailer turned upside down next to the highway: It's interesting, and you wonder just how it happened, but it's still a...

I'm not sure that LaNasa is even capable of considering that he might face consequences, much less ones resulting from his own actions.

I mean, it's obviously Photoshopped...

You mean shouting "Fake! Photoshopped!" isn't proof enough? Of course, these dimwits probably don't know that PS isn't a magic wand, and fares poorly as any kind of text editor, but I digress.

That was my thought. The Ernie Gygax connection is their only real claim to fame, so it wouldn't be entirely unexpected if they turned around and laid claim to Gary Gygax's other FRPG. Of course, it wouldn't be surprising to see them attempt to publish Cyborg Commando, either. NuNew Infinities...

Future Generations: OK, they lost their TSR IP. But then they turned around and immediately became NuGDW...???!!

Thanks for re-posting these here. I'm really enjoying your studied analysis of Howard's work coming to fruition through the lens of small-town life in 1920's Texas. I have to admit that, as much as I enjoyed the fact that Howard's unaltered writings have been made available in recent years...

So who had NuTSR going full Joe McCarthy on their bingo card?

"But think of how much they could have made if they hadn't gone Woke!" -the next series of nonsensical arguments

Just commenting to let you all know that I'm shaking an angry fist at you since this thread convinced me to add Paramount+ to my Roku. I guess I have some serious Trek to catch up on.

It took me a few tries to get into ICONS but when I did finally grok it, it really blew me away. I've done quite a bite with Fate, so I think the similarities were initially throwing me off, but reading, re-reading & then really playing with Qualities in-game was a real "Aha!" moment. It sits...

Can confirm. MHR is sometimes (perhaps often) described as a narrative game, but it's really not. The narration is in the Why you're doing something, and slightly bleeds into the How in terms of which dice you're using to build your pool. But that pool is the meat of the How. I've found it to...

The complete history of TSR as imagined by LaNasa and Ernie, a rather lengthy diatribe that, due to spacing issues, had to be rendered in 3.5 pt. font, causing the letters to all blur and meld together into a massive gold-leaf blob. When pressed on it, they will claim that this is their flagship...

So the modifier is the score +7, while the defense is the modifier +11. I think they're trying to tell us that this will be marketed nationwide through 7-Elevens.

Hey, they've won the hearts and minds of...well, the heartless and the mindless.

A lot of people really hype Atomic Robo as a great introduction to Fate. I am not one of those people. AR is a great rendition of Fate, but it also introduces some ideas & complexities that I find distract from the core simplicity of the game itself. If you're still interested in Fate the...

Jennell Jaquays was immensely influential on my D&D-related gaming back in the '80s. As a matter of fact, her Dark Tower kicked off my long-running Arduin game, and it was epic. Whenever I saw her name in JG-related materials they were pretty much a must-buy, as I knew that she would be...

That's a gross oversimplification of Howard's life at the time. Certainly he had his issues (as we all do), but he was very much in the position of being a caregiver for his mother, decades before such a term even existed. And with those duties came a substantial amount of stress. I have seen...

That's always been kind of the thing with D&D. The social and cultural elements have been very streamlined over the years, with the onus being on any given DM to flesh out interesting variations from the norm. Of course, not every DM wants (or should be expected to) put in the work to...

I have a goatee and I roll dice. I feel threatened.