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Back in the 80s, when it took potentially years for RPG products to be imported from the US, the British RPG industry was in a lot better shape. And I'm pretty sure TSR UK only existed because of the delay.

I live a lot further away than that, and one of the few things I learned about Canada in Geography was about the Great Lakes (we did a unit on Baffin island at junior level, but I don't think it was ever mentioned that it was part of Canada). The focus was on trade, but we did touch on fresh...

One would think any Canadian would be familiar with the Great Lakes. I would just make it freshwater. I’m all for fixing anything that doesn’t make much sense.

This is easy, you just tweak the description a little. “Halflings are fierce hunters who will eat anything in order to survive, including other sentient beings”. Preserving and defiling is always going be difficult, they didn’t work particularly well in the original. Simply describing the...

I assume they mean full of dark imagery, not grounded and naturalistic.

I don’t think I’ve ever had the thought “what I need right now is a mini-adventure”.

Fluff. Magic is magic, and many D&D settings wrote out gods because of the potential for deus ex machina. Goblins, orcs and dragons = Tolkien. Swords could be made from unobtanium for all it matters, they are still pointy things for stabbing monsters. Psionics was all over 1st edition AD&D...

The tropes that were flipped were Tolkien tropes, and what they were replaced with were tropes that had been in OD&D and lost in BX and AD&D. But it still had classes and levels and spells and abilities and xp and weapons and armour and monsters to kill. It’s fundamentally the same game...

This bit was too wall of text for a dyslexic like me. I prefer information presented in tables and diagrams. Or at least, short paragraphs.

Anime? I don’t remember that being particularly big back then. There was certainly stuff ripped off from Doctor Who and WH40K, but I think the reason this stuff didn’t make it in was down to page count and what the authors found interesting.

I mean, this is largely a taste thing, isn’t it? I thought VGR was a vast improvement on the 2nd edition boxed set, which I thought was a dumpster fire before dumpster fires were famous. And I really enjoyed Radiant Citadel.

They don't have to. If they don't the old version remains technically part of the 2024 rules, and the original DM is very underpowered, it's not going to break anything by having it technically in the game. Personally, I would rather see a non-suck Battle Rager.

Well, I drew a plan of Seaton Sluice. That sounds like it could be a place on a pirate or fantasy map.

Yeah, my big wish for next year would be for Exodus tabletop game to get a big push, and be added to DDB and other digital formats (I have bad eyes and find print books difficult). I'm bored with all this silly fantasy nonsense, and want silly sci fi nonsense instead.

You know this using your telepathic mind powers? The only "problem" was psionics (specifically, the community's constant rejection thereof), and that's fixed, which is why we are seeing movement. What you are saying is that whatever WotC do you have decided that you are going to hate it, and...

Possibly, but I think it has more to do with Dune. But Fallout was originally supposed to be a Gamma World CRPG but couldn't get the licence, and the original Dark Sun incorporated elements from Gamma World, so they have always been close cousins.

Sure. It was simple to fix and make no difference. Easy, not a big deal at all, like all the other things you think are problems. The biggest obstacle was psionics, and that's been fixed. So what you are saying is, WotC are doing Dark Sun, but you think they will advance timeline to a point...

Really, no. This is a prime example of someone putting their own interpretation on something with no supporting evidence in the text and claiming it is the one true interpretation. It was just an attempt to put John Carter back into D&D after it had been stripped out for intellectual property...

You say that like you think that a company not putting your desires ahead of everyone else is a terrible thing.

That’s not grimdark. In grimdark every attempt to do good and make things better ends up making things worse instead. See Game of Thones. It’s not that the world is dark - it may not be particularly - it’s that good can’t win.