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The James Bond 007 had a Hero point system in 1983 - that's the earliest one I remember encountering. From the wiki: Hero Points allow characters to perform the unlikely or cinematic stunts from the genre. Characters earn a Hero Point every time they get a Quality 1 result on a skill other...

So this more of a toolkit or guide for using their system in different types of games? "Fantasy" isn't really a setting. I agree with many of the above posters that this looks like the first effort in what will likely be several RPG's using the same system. They've been building up their own...

The rebound effect of lightning bolt might have mudered a few parties early on but by the time people were playing AD&D a wizard with any amount of practical experience knew it for what it was: an easy way to double the damage from that spell, particularly in the universal 10' wide dungeon...

Some hopefully constructive comments on that Triten KS: -"First created, 1 backed" - and the 1 backed was done in the last couple of weeks. This is an immediate red flag. Everybody's got to start somewhere but this indicates zero KS experience and those have a much higher fail rate than those...

You can completely ignore the tomorrow legion details if you like - that's my plan for my game. If your players prefer being part of a larger, existing organization it's there for them. If you as the GM have a specific idea for how you want the campaign to start then it just becomes another...

The article discussed here keeps referring to Marvel's inability to capitalize on Star Wars as a comic book property. That's a very different scenario compared to the Superhero side of things and to the D&D parallel: Star Wars did not spring from a comic book. It was a big, popular movie first...

The James Bond RPG is the first one I ran across that had Hero Points - a "fate point/force point" type mechanic that let a player adjust a bad roll. Marvel came out the same year and had Karma, then Warhammer Fantasy in 86 had Fate Points and Star Wars in 87 had Force Points and things just...

I remember the ads for this too and thought it was both coolly presented there - like you said parchment character sheets! - but also amateurish and trying to present itself as a "better" game than AD&D which seemed arrogant even then. That said a lot of games tried that same approach. Can we...

2E had "Return to the Keep on the Borderlands", "Return to White Plume Mountain", and "Against the Giants, the Liberation of Geoff", just off the top of my head. Oh and the "Return to the Tomb of Horrors" boxed set too. 3E had "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" and some official...

So did they ever get that Robotech Miniatures Kickstarter ever cleared out and closed up? If not it seems like maybe that should be the priority for them.

Since 1979 Everybody burns out. Typically the answer is take some time off from doing it or change to another game or both. I don't think getting paid for it changes this at all. A paid DM may burn out faster as he is presumably running quite a few more games - you may play once a week, if...

The biggest problem here: Lots of people would love to be paid to run games, very few would be willing to pay someone else enough to do it. This is the heart of the issue - anyone can do it! You might decide you want experience - there are DM's with lots of experience who are bad at running...

I get some of the differences as far as setting but what is the attraction of playing as kids? What makes that important to the game to the point that it's a requirement to stay in a specific age range and in a stereotypical social category?

TSR's problem with gaming material was that they were producing gaming material, like boxed sets, and selling it below cost. That's a problem in any business. With the book lines they were overproducing and having to eat the returns because that's how the novel business works - also not good...

Every other month? That's different. Taking it a little slower this time?

"One of the if not the first transhumanist, post-cyberpunk roleplaying game from the minds of Rob Boyle, Jack Graham, and Adam Jury." Well maybe "one of the first" as GURPS Transhuman Space was published in 2002 and supported by multiple supplements for years after that. Unless you literally...

I think it's debatable, at least as far as where you want to draw the line. Does playing World of Warcraft count? Because it was at 10-12 million for monthly subscribers for years. It is a fantasy RPG played with other people - it just happens to be on the computer. We were told this is...

I'm a little curious - if someone submits a story to a contest on the internet how does one automatically know the race, nationality, or gender of the author? Are they making writers fill out a form that asks these things? The name might give some idea as to gender but it doesn't necessarily...

I used to think Runequest had the most complicated licensing situation. They seem to have that mostly sorted out and now Vampire is aiming for that crown. Good luck to all involved!

The big WOTC adventure for 3.5 was "Red Hand of Doom" which was centered around a Tiamat-worshipping humanoid invasion with dragon-aspected bugbears, goblins etc. as leaders. The online adventure path for 4E was "Scales of War" which was also about Tiamat, her worshippers, and various plots...