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Obviously I would suggest that if you want to play a Firefly/Serenity campaign, you should check out the RPG we published that actually deals with this license, but there are some good points folks have raised. The biggest one that leaps out at me is your description of your play group. If...

Jasryn, you're also going to have to remove any of the Price of Courage elements from the storyline in order for this not to challenge copyrights. I know we've had this discussion before. Original content is a good thing, but turning a published adventure into a novel and then into a new...

Thanks for the feedback, Merric! You're not alone in having issues with the system in the way you describe, and in fact that was one of the chief design issues I wanted to resolve when I overhauled Cortex for SMALLVILLE and LEVERAGE this year. I wanted competent characters to have a better...

Speaking for Margaret Weis Productions, we are always honored to be included on the ballot for the Ennies! It's been a great pleasure to see so many cool gaming products come out in the past year, and I think we're in excellent company. Cheers, Cam

Even though it's my job to sell our games to folks, I will say that if the Cortex System in Serenity really isn't doing it for you, I think you can have just as much fun playing a Firefly game with other rules. I have the utmost respect for the guys at Cubicle 7 who designed Dr Who, and I agree...

Hi Merric! First of all, love the Billy the Kid character. Very suitable. Although the movie downplayed a lot of the Western elements, Firefly itself was very much a synthesis of Westerns in the same way that a lot of D&D is, and I think that's one of the reasons the show (and our game) have...

Dogs in the Vineyard is excellent, but it's not necessarily a western RPG so much as it's a game about being the enforcers of a religious tradition rooting out demons from small towns. Dust Devils might be closer to what you want. Aces and Eights is really complex, but it's exhaustive. Cheers, Cam

My most recent 4E game, currently on hiatus: Neil Gaiman and Guy Ritchie Kill Eberron, Take Its Stuff. Cheers, Cam

My very first 3rd edition D&D campaign was referred to by my group as "Elizabethulhu" because it was Elizabethan England + Cthulhu Mythos + D&D. I've been a Lovecraftian fan for a quarter century now, since I borrowed a leatherbound collection of HPL's stories from the library as a teenager, and...

Bingo. You don't need minis at all. If you used them for the game, it'd be as replacements for the stand-up character tokens that are only used in an abstract sense. You could probably run the game without those, too. Cheers, Cam

I bought a copy of the game. I posted the following over at RPG.net: It's a great looking game, all the components and books feel good, and I have to say that despite all of the uproar over the fact that it has special dice, stand-up counters, play aids, etc, this is still very much a role...

Sorry, guys! First I mixed up the dates and thought it was going to be Friday, so I stopped by the store a day early on my way to the Salute to Supernatural con in Rosemont. And then on Saturday I was stuck at the con with no way to actually get to Games Plus! Now that I know it's just an hour...

I really want to pick up this game. Here's why. I look at the boxed set and I have come to the conclusion that this isn't a board game, it's an RPG supported by colorful components. There's no board, and the game isn't focused directly on little guys moving about a mat. It shares many things...

Did the masher (a giant fish from 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual) ever get published again? I guess it didn't help that it never had a picture. Cheers, Cam

And yeah, I think I'd have gone with "kobak" for the cobalt draconian, especially since "baaz" was named such because it sounds like a degenerate "brass." Cheers, Cam

I had some in mind for Dragons of Krynn, where the noble draconians were given full PC-ready treatment, but decided not to during development. As for an Ecology of the Draconians, I wrote just such an article for Paizo's Dragon Magazine a few years back that would make a great basis for a 4E...

I was a big fan of this episode. I've always liked Julian Sands, and I think they did a great job of tying together lots of Jor-El/Krypton stuff both from earlier seasons but also the movies. Wonderful! Cheers, Cam

I think we probably have a lot more in common than you think. ;) Cheers, Cam

There's definitely an improvement in production values since the first ten or twenty years of RPG publishing. Even small press books released in the past couple of years are much better looking than the early production house games, like those from TSR or Chaosium. I wasn't aware that was the...

I'm going to be in town anyway for Salute to Supernatural that weekend (Nov 14-16 at the Mariotte near O'Hare) so I may as well stop by the store and hang out for a bit. Games Plus is only 50 miles away from me, so it's actually pretty darn close. And I need to talk to that Ninjacat guy...