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All my recs for fantasy would be older stuff (which people seem to be suggesting anyway - Gormenghast and Moorcock's work are great but far from new-ish). The last "modern" series I really enjoyed in the genre was Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series (that's the one that started with Lies of Locke...

They don't seem to be a universally-loved aspect of the setting, maybe because FTL feels a cheat. I've seen a couple of groups that just excised the concept entirely and replaced it with STL at relativistic speeds, which works fine when you're transhuman characters are effectively immortal.

Mostly. There are gates to extrasolar worlds. Seconded. Obviously a very retro take, but still quite a captivating setting and the source of quite a few well-established stereotypes in scifi, some of which linger on even today. I could not find that site to save my life when I was hunting...

I've been trying a lot harder lately to do so whenever there's due cause. The cumulative effects are kind of hilarious. Some thread pages only have 2-3 posts now unless I force the vanished stuff into visibility. Perhaps some degree of restraint is in order...

Breaking News: LaNasa claims they own the trademark on the letters T, S, and R. Sues PBS over Sesame Street and the Letter People. In other news, Judges' Guild sued by Insects At Law, representing the planet's entire bee population. "We did it first, you hairless apes!" says B.B. Benson...

They're the ones that did the musical, right? I love One Night In Bangkok! :)

Oh. That Heart. Thought this was going be some "Behind the Music" revelation about how the Wilson sisters have been co-GMing a D&D campaign for the rest of the band since Dreamboat Annie came out in 1975.

Nothing new about hex grids for gaming. The first hex-map-and-cardboard-counter wargame was the 1961 AvHill printing of D-Day. The German game Stern-Halma was using a star-shaped (hence "stern") hex-pattern board in 1892, although it's a checkers variation, not a wargame. In 1928 it would get...

I'm actually glad I have no positive feelings of nostalgia for Judges' Guild. It would be a shame to have fond memories tainted by the company's modern shenanigans.

See, I get yelled at whenever I use the AvHill RPGs as examples of dead games. The Powers & Perils guys are downright angry about the subject. LoC's definitely got a small fan community to this day. Got panned something fierce when it came out but it's grown cult following, I think largely on...

No, it was definitely Justice Stewart Potter, commenting on the subject of whether the film The Lovers was obscene or not (it was not). The exact quote is usually gotten wrong (the "shorthand" he's referring to is about legal obscenity being hard-core pornography, itself an ill-defined term)...

At the risk of sounding like a certain supreme court justice, I can't define what a superhero is, but I know one when I see one.

Yeah, DragonQuest definitely has a player base. Little more concerned about Universe, but maybe I've just never stumbled over whatever online community is out there.

Last time I saw it at a con it was being run using Playskool Old West figures and scenery. You couldn't get near the table, there were so many people watching. Filled every seat over five different event slots. Pretty lively for a corpse. :)

I think GURPS falls in that category too, although I'll concede they've fallen behind as they've tailed back on new material and stopped chasing licenses. Still a lot of good GURPS worldbooks out there, although many are a little (or a lot) dated, eg GURPS Humanx Commonwealth, which is well...

That is largely true (I know I certainly don't keep up with what's left of the 4e community any more) but I think in that particular case it's partly because a lot of folks drifted over to 13th Age, which is jokingly referred to as D&D 4.5 around these parts - and with 2nd edition due soon...

You probably should, yes. It's a pipe dream, but the sudden return of Elfquest has me vaguely hopeful that Chaosium will randomly decide to talk Larry Niven into a license again and release an updated and expanded Ringworld that doesn't end - what, two books into the series? Or better yet, a...

First dead KS I've seen from this, certainly won't be the last.

Somewhat off-topic (in the sense that it's not an RPG manufacture) but Ground Zero Games just made an announcement about the situation. For those unfamiliar with them, they're a 40-year old UK-based miniatures caster who also produced several popular rules sets (now free as pdfs) back in the...

CityTech wasn't its own game, it just added rules for urban combat, vehicles and infantry to the BTech game - it was the very first supplement for it IIRC. The modern version of those rules are all part of the current edition of BTech, so definitely not out of use, just no longer an independent...