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It’s looking to be increasingly irrelevant, to be honest. Chaosium can’t really control other BRP spinoffs already in use by other companies, and putting out a document like this at this time seems a bit desperate. I’m not really sure who will use it or, indeed, who its aimed at.

"The Basic Roleplaying SRD is based on Basic Roleplaying, the simple, fast, and elegant skill-based percentile system that is the core of most Chaosium roleplaying games, including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, SuperWorld, and others." Yet reading the current versions of Call of Cthulhu and...

It’s had 30 years of a relatively high profile in gaming circles to build a fanbase. The art alone is pretty iconic these days.

Well, I’ll keep watching the space with interest.

Well, yes, I assumed that the miniature line is really what FFG is now interested in maintaining - but my interest is just what is happening to the RPG. If they stall the RPG line, then I guess that is the end of that.

Maybe. My understanding is that Asmodee are a distribution company though - do they have staff to write more books? Beyond that, I do wonder whether the movies finishing for the time-being might slow down sales in Star Wars gaming products? Personally, I’m just happy they did the 30th...

Not sure how long Alien will last, to be honest, and Star Wars will need a new home soon or it’s going to drop down too I’d imagine. Big mover this last quarter was Shadowrun. V5 needs to get more supplements out - although there have been a couple out this last couple of weeks.

From my understanding, so were Paramount.

We’ll have to see what the system will be like, but I am heartened to know that, regardless of the core system used, the rules for politics and intrigue will be treated as important as those for knife fighting. Big Tick.

Well, it’s about playing children, so I can’t see why not.

Greek is to Rome what the UK is to the USA today.

Greek mythology, which has been neglected a bit previously in the RPG hobby, seems to be becoming all the rage right now.

Unlikely, I think. Modiphius’ licence is just with Vampire: The Masquerade. Onyx Path Publishing are probably busy with publishing what they have at the moment, and this includes the Chronicles of Darkness lines (and others too). The various 20th Anniversary books are essentially done, as far...

There’s not just one version of Monopoly, these days, and there is a lot of clever marketing that goes into designing new versions.

The Mongoose sub-forum is not given much promotion on the COTI site - located beneath the highlighted Cepheus forums as part of the ‘Other Versions of Traveller’. And, as I say, the forum I’ve experienced is largely hostile to Mongoose Traveller, Mongoose itself and fans of Mongoose Traveller...

In the case of Apocalypse World, they only seem to sell through a very small number of trusted vendors - which would account for this. Monster of the Week, I’m sure, has a bigger distribution. However, what is notable is that PbtA games seem to feature big at Conferences, despite having little...

We discussed this earlier in the thread, I think, but Mindjammer is the only one currently. 2300AD is due out later this year, and will be published by Mongoose too. There are some 3rd party ‘community’ releases on drivethrurpg, although most of these are set in the OTU too. However, I would...

Well it’s an opinion about the quality of the 3rd party stuff. Spica and Gypsy Knight produced a range of products, but for me personally, it’s not anything compelling enough to make me rush out to buy them in all honesty - in the same way I found with most 3rd party D20 stuff too. The product...

I did regard the presence of V5 in the Top 5, for three consecutive quarters, as a big explanation for Modiphius choosing to publish the license, despite White Wolf folding after a difficult year. For White Wolf, who may have been hoping to recapture the whole WoD market they controlled in...

My sympathy with third party publishers and IP protection only goes so far when they’ve not actually paid a penny for the license to publish Traveller materials. They can publish under their own OGL-based brand as they like, but I can’t see how Mongoose or Marc Miller are obliged to provide them...