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It's a great system for Star Wars and other pulp or cinematic type games. For most people who know what it is though it is so heavily tied to Star Wars that it's a tough sell to use it for any other genre. With this though - who are these guys? I'm not seeing any names I recognize. People have...

I agree with you in general but I suspect this is mainly done by those looking for the feel of earlier editions where 1hp per level per night of rest was pretty common. The only fast healing was magical healing. The cleric lobby is strong ;)

Another consideration: they have Goodman Games publishing updated classic adventures now. WOTC may view that as freeing them up to do something else in the future with one of their "book slots".

YES! In the earlier days of podcasting there were plenty of actual plays of various games out there but there were also quite a few devoted to talking about the game, not listening to a group playing the game. In fact I'd say that at one point that was the norm. Somewhere along the way it...

I was reading about the level cap increasing from 60 to 70 in an online game, with many new possibilities/abilities. "How do people keep track of so many abilities at such high levels?" I thought. ---In most online RPGs your number of powers doesn't increase beyond a certain level as older ones...

I'm sure the toning-down of the name dropping (Gygax, Greyhawk, various other TSR IP mentions) is for legal reasons but I'd like to think it might also have to do with things like "a sentient but indifferent Planet" or the sub-plots have nothing to do with any aspect of Greyhawk published thus...

Well that's one three - adventure series, and the details are quite a bit different from most contemporary D&D adventures. Again, as far as comparisons to Starfinder, the complete lack of magic, religion, alignment, and many other D&D tropes, added on the the mechanical differences makes for a...

Er, sure, if you take out all of the Starfinder races and all of the _magic_ and much of the gear - then it's "trivial". Are you under the impression that Star Frontiers was D&D in space?

Well I'm glad I am not the only one who sees these things largely as clutter-creators. It's a box of stuff that's going to vary wildly month to month as to how much you're interested in it - why let someone else control what you get? I'm more of an "Amazon Crate" or "eBay Crate" fan - you spend...

"One of the great wargame companies in gaming history, Avalon Hill, lives on with more RPG offerings here in the 21st Century. This includes their take on d20-driven superhero gaming, and they’ve adapted their popular OGL/Pathfinder-driven Heroes Wear Masks game to the 5th Edition of D&D." What...

Fair enough. I suppose I could say something similar ;) In case I am coming off as not liking this project I actually am pleasantly surprised - I really liked this game and I've run 3-4 sessions of d6 Star Wars in the past year and my teenagers love it. I'd just like to see a little more if...

Did you really join in here just to share your own personal definition of "collectible" ? Seriously? I might describe myself as a "collector" of exactly this kind of material and your definition is frankly useless in any real discussion. A thing's "collectibility" is in fact directly affected by...

"Highly Collectible" - er, maybe in this specific form but copies of the originals are not hard to find and not terribly expensive. The bindings were solid so most of them are in pretty good shape too. I'm not sure who would go nuts for this or why but since it's Star Wars I'm sure plenty of...

It was a cool setting with some mixed rules issues. It's definitely "dystopian" but it's not strictly cyberpunk (if you were a cyborg the tech was put there by aliens, typically against your will) and definitely not post-apoc in the sense of Twilight 2000 or Gamma World. The "big problem" of the...

Obligatory Reflex Post: Still cheaper than 40K!

It's not difficult to have a conversation with your players before a campaign begins and hit the high points of what you are and are not using from the vast amount of setting lore. Most GM's I know do that. Some even have a campaign intro handout that covers something like this. I've never run...

As long as we can stay away from using "IMFU" we're probably good ;)

Well I'll be that guy then: Dallas was not the first licensed RPG. Heritage had a Trek license in the late 70's, along with a John Carter of Mars game too. Wiki with details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Adventure_Gaming_in_the_Final_Frontier As far as the rest, I get not...

The solution I use for this: Phone with Turboscan > scan monster statblock from book > print > keep printouts by table for use. With a wireless printer this is a fast enough process you can do it on the fly during the game. Sheet protectors + wet or dry erase markers let you mark these...

I was going to say something about an extreme lack of notice about this and express some surprise then I realized there was no link to the actual announcement anywhere in this article. I went to Cubicle 7's website - nothing. I went into their forums and the Cubicle 7 news sub-forum and there it...