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Yeah, it's hard to tell from their site (which is horrible about updates) until stuff shows up on sale. Definitely managing a new print run now and then, as well as slowly putting up old stuff on pdf that's been gone for years, eg War of the Sky Cities. I don't know how they make their...

Interesting. Maybe when I finish up my current projects. Bit swamped at the moment.

I'm not surprised. SPI games still have a certain nostalgia value for people of the right age. There's board games of theirs I'd still happily play myself. Nexus: The Infinite City was a solid system that showed mechanical similarities to Feng Shui and had a pretty great setting - reminded me...

Still readily available in pdf, and both have had new releases as recent as 2018, including a whole new setting for Aftermath (a post-asteroid impact apocalypse) and two new Sector Atlas books for the Space Opera setting. FGU's been prone to long breaks between releases since their long...

Vehicle creation rules? That's not Snapshot, which is a game of man-to-man close-quarters skirmishing on board starships. Possibly you're thinking of Striker, which was GDW's Traveller-centric miniatures rules set - assumed scale of 15mm IIRC, but it could be adjusted. Worked nicely for...

No official announcement as yet so perhaps best taken with a grain of salt, but it appears that effective today, Greater Than Games (the people responsible for the Sentinel Comics RPG, Sentinels of the Multiverse card game, and the Spirit Isalnd board game to name just few highlights) has been...

I'd say it actually did a little too good a job of capturing GW's gonzo nonsense and trying to explain it all. The whole "we accidentally broke the fabric of the universe with a particle collider" was not only topical at time of release, it was the best explanation any edition had for the...

Ugly situation indeed. And probably just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to game publisher closures.

I don't know about that. The 7th ed spun off of the D&D 4e mechanics was not well received when new IME, even if it (like 4e itself) has aged well as people got past how divergent they both were from what came before. I rather liked it myself because it embraced its own absurdities, but I was...

Given the era of D&D we're in, I think it depends on how well the monster's save-or-die rolls go against the venom from that funky serpent shield the barbarian's using. The "mixed response" hadn't really taken off at this point, since only the first trilogy is out and ended on as upbeat a note...

I know it's a typo, but now I want an adventure named Dragon Jest that revolves around the party being the target of a series of draconic pranks. Give a new meaning to the term funhouse dungeon. "What's with all these pie traps?"

I can think of worse options he could have chosen, but they all involve live-streaming cannibalism. Think it's moved beyond licenses now. I'm pretty sure Mongoose has had various rights sold/transferred to them permanently, but perhaps I misunderstood the news story a while back.

I'm familiar with the setting. Not quote what I was thinking of, a Deadlands Solar System as I envision it would much lower tech and lack transhumanist elements. Maybe something like Space 1889 but with ghost rock-powered ether ships and every planet having its own version of the Reckoners...

Pretty sure I'm remembering it from the GDW Kafer Sourcebook, but it was long ago and I'm unsure of the source. Might have been some random issue of Challenge instead, or even the brief section on kafer in the core box.

Already confirmed last I heard. Pentapods are interesting, but the Kafer are more fleshed-out and arguably more useful as alien menaces for most campaigns. Always liked the detail that the control panels in Kafer vehicles are built to take serious abuse because the crew instinctively try to...

No kidding. Even harder for a business rather than an individual, and with many game companies selling 60% or more of their products in the US moving away from that market just doesn't make sense even now. As things get worse that may change, especially if US purchasing power tanks and the...

Has anyone actually done a "Hell In the Solar System" Deadlands variant where humanity manages significant interplanetary flight and finds the rest of the Solar system is full of horrors too? Maybe something steampunk or VSF, or farther in an alternate future (post-Hell On Earth) with more of...

That. Unless you're using this kind of detail for something of narrative importance or the players express a specific interest by asking questions, there's not much point in this kind of worldbuilding. You'll get players and whole groups who want more atmosphere and then you can elaborate and...

The primary concept behind Lighthouse (unrelated to its secret) already exists in Traveller. Alternity: StarDrive's FTL assumptions mean larger can have much longer jump ranges than smaller ones, and the Lighthouse is less space station than it is (in Traveller terms) a gigantic jump tender...

Similarly, if you buy an RPG with no real intention or hope of ever actually playing it, does it really count as a game? That should put most things that aren't D&D safely in the "book" category IME. :)