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In the most recent update for the Apocrypha kickstarter (as in 'just a few hours ago' recent), Mike Selinker mentions that fans of Apocrypha might want this thing, too. Whatever it is, I'm interested in it if for no other reason than that so many different people are involved. It's kind of like...

Is there any specific sort of action you're looking for? Swinging from chandeliers? Chasing robbers on horses? Train robbing? Showdown/duels? Anything but the last one are easy with the right skills/stunts, but there's no hard rules that I've seen (which doesn't mean they're not out there) for...

There's quite a few options out there for free. I was going to initially respond with FATE as my primary suggestion until I read the rest of the first post, then your second post. I backed the kickstarter for FATE Core, so I'm kind of partial to it and feel the need to defend it when you say...

I feel the need to add that when I run (our group has a rule where everyone has to be able to run something, and we split the day between the two games that get voted in), I tend to like to my laptop handy for sound effects or background music. The halloween one-off I ran for my western game...

Well, Roy (not Rob) Lee was producer on a pair of movies I liked (Lego Movie and HTTYD 2) and I liked Monsters Vs. Aliens by Rob Letterman, but that doesn't really instill any hope in me for the movie. On the other hand, I don't really have a bad feeling about the movie (like I did with Batman...

A while back, I had proposed a 'no tech' rule for my group. Thankfully, another player (one of the two original founders still with the group) seconded it. I had proposed it because another player was getting distracted by his tech (and I openly acknowledged that I would get distracted by own...

I think WOTC got it right this time around with the OGL with 5E. Back in 2000 when people realized just what they could do with the OGL, things exploded and there certainly was an abundance of d20 stuff out there, ranging from adventures and supplements to the more adventurous reworkings...

Given that the list is RPG-related kickstarters, I think the campaign for Fate Dice (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-dicetm-dice-for-your-fate-and-fudge-games/description) deserves to be on the list with $78k funding, as does Evil Hat's Designers and Dragons campaign. If I...

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. Some stores focus on guaranteed sales and either don't take chances on small stuff or only special order it for their customers. D&D, I think, is always going to be around and be a top seller. It's the grandfather of role playing games. PF is the (and I...

Have you seen The Gamers or The Gamers: Dorkness Rising? (There's a third - Hands of Fate - but that one involves CCGs instead of RPGs.) Those two use that exact premise. Dorkness Rising is the better of the two, with the story putting equal focus on both the players and the fictional setting...

This could either be a smart move or a really stupid based-on-hot-new-takes-on-a-geek-genre move by Hollywood. Fantasy is JUST NOW starting to take off as a truly viable film genre (thanks to all the grown up geeks with disposable income both going to see the movies and make the movies), helped...

An RPG would be great. And GF9 has at least dabbled in the RPG market by putting out the first official D&D 5E adventure/base rules book a while back (before 5E launched). Hopefully GF9 would take a page from the Doctor Who RPG and have multiple yet compatible rulebooks for each version of Trek...

So, I've been with my gaming group for about twelve or thirteen years now. We're dedicated and almost always get together every Sunday. I think one of the things that keeps things interesting is that every week we vote on who's going to run, and usually get two sessions in. (We've diversified...

I'm surprised the sale of L5R didn't make this list. A twenty year old IP that's constantly had new material being sold to another company seems huge to me.

The best thing I can recommend is reading the timeline in the core rulebook. It's not as in depth as all the fiction, but it gives you a good place to start if something there catches your fancy. The history spans about twelve centuries. Believe me, if I had known how much story there was before...

Now THERE'S an idea to get behind. When I started getting into the L5R RPG I learned how the story is always evolving, but based solely on the outcomes of major tournaments for the CCG. Some ideas/outcomes were outright stupid, according to my one friend. Like the Lion encountering the Yodotai...

Thanks for the math. That must have taken some time. The Star Wars game I'm in we've been playing for a year or so now. I started out as an Explorer/Driver, and spent the extra points to pick up the Force Sensitive Emergent at character creation. A meager FR of 1, but it's still something. As...

I think the Force is strong with this particular rpg. (Sorry... It had to be said.) The three rulebooks interact seemlessly, moreso than the old World of Darkness books (same system, but the natures of each type made interaction between them difficult). If F&D had to be placed somewhere in the...

A Game of Thrones style board game would be AWESOME and work quite well for L5R and I would play the hell out of it with my friends. (Never played Twilight Imperium.) Same goes for a Winter Court intrigue style game. I've played Ninja (by AEG, and an L5R board game) a few times and it's okay but...

I have my fears for the IP, but I also have some hopes, too. Chief among them that FFG will explore more of the world to which Rokugan belongs (and hopefully undo some of the wiping-out-of-non-Rokugani-peoples), like the cultures of the Burning Sands and the European type countries (which share...