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Well we have at least one example with 4e Forgotten Realms ... Time jump Big changes to setting Lots of prior fans unhappy and pretty vocal about it I think that's a good reason you're not seeing a release for this one - once you make enough changes who would it please?

Lot of strange takes here on a game system that has been out for over 35 years. If you hate the roll under, the defense roll, the generic-ness, then yes, GURPS is not your system and I would not expect a new edition of it to make any of those changes, frankly. It's like expecting D&D to go to a...

Switch Either Genre or System But Not Both In my experience this is not optimal as a fantasy game will constantly be compared to D&D and approached with a similar mindset if you've only been playing D&D which kind of defeats the purpose of trying something new. Switching genres but using very...

I don't think that I would label licensed IP as a whole as a "failure". Games come out, they live for a while, and they die - licensed or not. The biggest challenge with a licensed game is just that - there is a license involved and so there is an extra layer of expense added on to all the...

Yeah ... I have run and played quite a few superhero RPGs over the years and this one just didn't really light things up for me in playtest form. I like the subject, I like the author, but the system just felt off. I'll take another look when we get the final version but I'm not sure what kind...

What this tells me is that this was not playtested. Maybe once, by the person who wrote it and some players who were not really digging in to the situation, but most likely not. If they had given this to another DM -and not a buddy of the designer - I suspect many of these things would have come...

I ran original flavor Deadlands and Hell on Earth back when and I've been running Savage Worlds here and then since it came out (currently running a Savage Deadlands game) and my best advice is that if the rules look interesting to you take a look at the various settings both Pinnacle and 3rd...

"She pointed out that dungeon masters only made up 20% of the customer base, with an untapped player base that could be unlocked as "recurrent spenders," with more than 70% of digital gaming profits coming from post-sale." This is a particularly important point. Subscriptions and...

But it was just a draft seeking input and feedback right? In December?

There was a GURPS sourcebook too that worked pretty well for this too.

At least two of M&M's more recent releases - the Time Traveler's Codex and the Super Team Handbook were not compilation collections. They've been doing that for a long time though going back to the Gadget Guide years ago. I think the biggest problem with this Kickstarter specifically though is...

Some additional details are really needed for this to be a useful review. Which options are lineage? Which are classes? Are some of them modifications to existing classes? Are there some feats that stand out? How do these player options compare to or add to what's in the core book? How about the...

The latest release date on our Amazon pre-orders is the19th so some people may have a copy next week. Screen refreshes and I see Enevhar already mentioned it above - ah well!

A few points to add to the excellent points made above: 1) The forced movement aspect cannot be overstated - push, pull, slide ... all made terrain and positioning significant. Push that enemy into the lave pit or over the cliff edge, pull this enemy that's vulnerable to fire into the zone the...

Bronze dragons are a big deal in the Dragonriders of Pern books which would have been floating around the popular zeitgeist when the game was being written. Might've been a factor there.

I think a 5E Star Wars adaptation is unlikely as it would have to go back to Lucasfilm for approval alongside whatever new activity they undertake for the existing line. Plus if the prior d20 Star Wars line wasn't profitable enough at WOTCs scale, I'm not sure a new one, even with the...

<snip> You seem to be following a fallacy that equates tabletop RPG design to technological development which is just not how it works. Tabletop RPG design is mostly driven by personal tastes, not some universally recognized progression towards "modern" or even "simpler" design. Not everyone...

Pretty sure Ptolus touts itself as a conversion or update of the prior edition - I don't think you or anyone else had to do anything to find that out. I mean do all of those games release something new every week? Do you not see a difference between say, an adventure conversion with stat...

"You are being disingenuous." "...you are skewing the conversation here" "...if with a real slant." You make an awful lot of assumptions about motivation here. How is my post "disingenuous"? I've been on here a long time - I'm not trolling you. I saw a response to something that seemed way off...

Someone raises a point about one of the items in your column this week and we get: It's not my full-time job I don't work for these companies How would I know OK - but you are writing this column. Would you agree that there is a difference between something "new" and something that is a...