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I've made the mistake of claiming all of those are dead at various points in the last five years. and got vigorously corrected with enough evidence that I'm willing to believe they still have their player bases. Heck, I'd play LoC myself now and then just for the sheer gonzo factor if I still...

It seems erratic. I've looked at some 2024 Traveller stuff that friends purchased and one book would be okay, with just a couple of minor errors, and then another would show the same kind of shabby editing that earned them their reputation in the first place. Going by a very limited sample...

I'd be more inclined to agree if pdf piracy didn't exist. A trivial search tells me it's been plundered repeatedly. The publisher may want it gone, but like anything else, once the internet has it good luck making it go away for good.

Ha. By that standard, D&D 5e is a dead game - as well as every single previous edition. Don't think many people will agree with that, somehow.

Between legit pdfs and outright piracy, that's extremely rare these days, so very few games would truly qualify as dead. The principle exceptions will be licensed games where no one is ever likely to get the license back, and even those might survive with the IP forcibly removed (eg WEG's d6...

It uses the original novella Armageddon 2419 and its sequel War Against the Han for its setting, which only the earlier comics tie into. If you're expecting interplanetary travel, swashbuckling space opera or aliens you're not getting them. It's all about US guerillas (still fighting after...

Hard skew toward weird. There's very little actually new after 50 years of gaming and nostalgia won't carry me more than a handful of sessions in most cases.

Yeah, especially with the possibility of other countries being hit on a whim any moment (with the EU seeming a likely target) and a 90 day deadline hanging like the Sword of Damocles over everyone. It's not really any better trying to plan for non-Chinese sources today than it was yesterday...

I can see where a mashup of those two could make a good RPG campaign, with or without mechs. Nice to see someone using Heinlein as an idea mine without getting Starship Troopers involved for a change. His early work has a fair bit of useful stuff for RPG campaigns, but tends to get...

Yep, I can see it just fine.

Similar, although I can't say I played it long. Algol was a pretty neat setting for its time. Seems odd that R Tal doesn't offer it any more even as a pdf, but I suppose the files may have gotten lost or something.

I'm fascinated by the implications of this. Had never considered the existence (or lack thereof) of cloud giant pizza restaurants before. Where do they source their ingredients? Do the ovens cause problems with cloud buoyancy, or emit enough heat to evaporate structures built of cloudstuff...

FWIW, that Pressure game from Osprey self-describes as rules-light, although I can't vouch for that personally. Same writer as Those Dark Places but a little newer, and presumably lighter. Jovian Chronicles started out as a setting for Mekton way back in the day, which might or might not fit...

Even the exceptions (adventures out beyond the Belt) were still within the Heliopause. No interstellar travel there. There's a retroclone of the game called Overlords of Dimension 25 and a more recent White Star hack from the same author called 5120AD Overlords of Solaria, so several options...

GURPS Terradyne - the lower tech option GURPS Transhuman Space - the higher tech option Osprey's Pressure - industrial scifi, interstellar but pretty easy to restrict to just the Solar system Osprey's Those Dark Places - more industrial scifi, somewhat lower-tech feel

Interesting. Always wondered why DCUO was so limited. Nothing like using some pop science article to make major business decisions, that always pays off well.

Depends a lot on how old I was when I was most involved with a game, which doesn't always correspond at all closely to date of publication (or going OOP, for that matter). The group(s) I played with are a major influence as well, not always for the better - probably be a lot more nostalgic for...

Oops, the question was just about the cover, wasn't it? Yeah, that's Elmore. Bradstreet did a fair bit of the interior art - the subject came up on another site a few days ago. That "GDW lives" bit just makes me sad.

Well, one of the FLGS owners I've been talking to about all this has decided they're closing and leaving the industry. Apparently he got an offer for most of his stock from another business and is, as he says, getting out before this gets any worse. To be fair, he ran through most of his...

At the time it seemed pretty implausible. The past is alien territory. Miller can't sell that license by himself. Mongoose might be willing to throw enough money at Mark Schultz (or whoever owns the rights to the Xenozoic Tales IP) to get the rights to do an RPG - but, y'know, there's all...