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Modiphius took over the line in December 2018; there's no mention of whether that is continuing. It is implied that they aren’t, considering that the content of the Vampire Companion book was mooted to be in Modiphius’ Vampire's Player’s Handbook which never materialized. It doesn’t appear that...

I think the good/evil thing in LotR is played out in terms of the main conflict, for sure, but can also be seen in terms of personal conflict too - Gollum, for example. In the case of WFRP, the Good/Evil axis is essentially replaced by Law/Chaos (as per Moorcock’s work), although Chaos is...

I’d also add, as an extra aside, that the whole Chaos/Law ‘World is doomed’ aspect of WFRP is also very British - it comes from Michael Moorcock!

As stated before, the defeat of Sauron was very much a bittersweet affair for the Hobbits in Lord of the Rings. It reflects on death in. pretty sombre way, while it isn’t at all clear that Sauron can possibly be defeated when reading through the book. In the case of WFRP, there are also...

I still feel people are portraying LotR as being all shininess and light, when actually the story itself was pretty dark. If you are reading it for the first time, then you don’t know who will win - it was a pretty bleak journey for Frodo - and even the end was bittersweet and stoic. If you play...

Minor quibble, but Lord of the Rings is actually pretty dark fantasy, while Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play was always a game setting to me that felt especially Tolkien-esque. Especially compared to other fantasy games like D&D. WFRP is advanced in it’s nominal chronology, to represent a more...

It is remarkable how many Clockwork Orange references are in that video - the movie was banned in the UK at the time, so its not clear how many of its teen audience would have recognized that. A Clockwork Orange was so far ahead of its time it is crazy.

Because the Cyberpunk game uses the metic system.

I can’t recall ever using minis to play Cyberpunk, to be honest, but surely the scale would be metric?

Anybody else remember Sigue Sigue Sputnik?

If it is possible to get hold of it, likely to be the big release of the year for me.

It has been notable that a number of smaller press, or more low key releases, have been winning awards over recent years.

Nice list. It is missing the original version of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright RPG, which was released in 1992. The supplement released for RuneQuest 6/Mythras by The Design Mechanism is due for a rerelease as a stand-alone game in the next year (or so).

I see this as good news. While I know of a number of people having consternation about these commercial IPs ending up primarily with 5E, you have to remember what the biggest market is. Honestly, I see it at a waste of development resources to just keep making up bespoke systems for every new...

I’m not entirely convinced about the ‘Questworlds’ title, although it may grow on me. I always felt that the system would be ideal to make a new version of Super World though - it scales really well for Superpowers while being much more simple to use than many other game systems for that genre.

I think the ‘classic’ status of Twilight: 2000. combined with the growing reputation of Fria Ligan and their house system is probably going to take it a long way. Personally, more interested in 2300AD which is technically supposed to be the future of the same setting. It will be getting a...

A Chaosium representative stated that Call of Cthulhu’s biggest sales market was Japan on the basicroleplaying.com site. We get the biggest sense of retail sales, which is the biggest market, from the ICv2 charts. The PDF sales, by comparison, is a much smaller subset of overall sales. I...

To be sure, PDF sales on drivethrurpg and stats from online servers like Roll20 do not provide a very complete picture of overall sales. Call of Cthulhu’s biggest market is apparently in Japan.

There can be a balance between the two. For example, instead of rolling up each Ability or Characteristic (or whatever) separately, you could roll all the dice at once and then pick and choose how they are ‘spent’ to build up seperate scores.

You are associating a game mechanic with a saying that doesn’t necessarily follow. Story elements can be based on ‘good stuff’ or ‘bad stuff’ or neither. There is no extra attention that needs to be given to a player with bad stuff beyond the general notion that they won’t be as lucky in...