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Superheroes are the American myth, right up there alongside the Western, and I'm kind of amazed by the seeming lack of awareness in this article and thread. There are more Superhero RPGs available now than ever before. M&M is probably the biggest and has been in its 3rd edition for at least ten...

Thanks for a real story Ed. It does feel a little less golden these days.

I'm still trying to figure out what the "tragedy" of free is. Has "free" made it more difficult to get your material published? I see more people publishing more content, D&D and otherwise, than ever before. Has it reduced the number of people playing? Presumably because there is a flood of...

... and this should be a concern for anyone considering the tabletop game industry as their sole career. If you can do it on the side, hey, no worries right? But if you're going to depend on this as your main source of income, and that income ain't great ... putting some away for later is going...

If you're going to call this a "review" could we get some details on the game? "Most tests are handled by a fairly standard d6-based dice pool system" What does this mean? Is there a standard out there? Standard like a White Wolf game? Standard like old school or new school Shadowrun...

"You set up encounters, run the players against them, and then pop out the DM Guide to roll on loot tables. Sure, the randomness of the table-approach has always been a unique feature of the game but it can have us scratching our head ... if the monster had a wand of fireballs in their loot pile...

Yes I had some of these as a kid too and never realized the Ultraman connection -this is great stuff.

When i saw the thread title I was expecting something else - the "Race as Class" from the early days. In my experience people are either OK with it or not and it's tough to change any minds at this point. As far as level limits, if I'm playing an old game it's fine - that's the way we played...

Errr... no. Going back to 2E there was a good-sized preview "brochure" in a Dragon prior to the release - I still have it around here somewhere - that discussed the changes that were coming and showed the new covers etc. 3e was discussed/revealed in a yearlong series of articles in Dragon...

Yeah ... that could happen. Happened to one of mine ... KPV>Windshield. Of course this was after two hours of setup, back story, and selecting gear. I mean, in what other game would you be arguing about how big a trailer you need to haul the still to keep your tank fueled up and running...

Hey thanks for posting this CZ. I've gotten my feet wet with some PF2 homebrew and I'm about to restart it once things open up again and I'm always interested to see what people are running into with a new set of rules. While I liked 4E I am totally with you on the idea that monsters should...

The thing is most smaller publishers already do digital - for the smallest I'd say it's their main channel. Everyone from Paizo to Green Ronin to Modiphius to most of the RPG names you can think of already have a significant digital product line. WOTC is really the only one that doesn't do PDFs...

If you want the old Basic & Expert experience you could just get the originals from DTRPG instead, along with those old B/X adventures.

Well sure, I mean, why let the dice rule the direction of anything? Your "planned story" will play out much smoother without any dice at all...

It's ... the next edition of the game ... is there something specific from that 3E-4E relationship that you're curious about?

I started playing in 1980 - it's not particularly an old school thing. I think it cheapens the impact of players choices, but if you're playing a character the DM made up from the start - as described in the article - then I suppose taking over another DM-made character mid-dungeon is not a...

I am a fan of the Realms and have been for a long long time but ... "I provided statted-up characters, with backgrounds, who were all younglings seeking their fortunes and leaving their home community--the SAME home community--for the first time." -This is how you start a convention game, not...

I thought the same thing at first but there were things like CompuServe and The Source that were net-ish at thew time. You could send email, etc. - but a lot of times it was limited to people on the same network. Lot of time spent on BBSs back then.

It's a problem if you aspire to make a decent living writing RPG material, certainly. But a TV doesn't come with the means to make your own shows. Nor does a disc or streaming service, nor do most video games. You never hear someone say "I would never watch a published TV show" - but it's a...