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I've mentioned a few times on this board that I've never had an affinity for the White Wolf / Storyteller systems. Even though I was a teenager in the '90s, for whatever reason the general zeitgeist of Vampire: the Masquerade passed me by. I've tried looking through some of the more recent...

See, this is an odd one . . . because there's only 2 pre-2005 rules I have in hard copy. I keep MechWarrior for the lore of pre-Clan Successor States, and the only reason I have Star Wars d6 2nd ed. is because my wife found it at a thrift store for a $1.50. Just last week I dumped what...

Spent a lot of time around there as a kid. Capitola Beach was a little slice of heaven.

@BookTenTiger --- University of California - Santa Cruz

I ran a highly detailed setting for Savage Worlds Deluxe, one where I created my own continent and city maps, detailed how time is measured, political setups for 5 different countries, etc. It was a humans-only fantasy campaign, set in a pseudo-alt-historical real world where all of the old...

Yeah, I get what you're saying, the racial heritages do generally point to a preferred play style, but in the context of this thread, it's more about, what can a player do to distinctively play a trandoshan or rodian or ithorian, or whatever, that doesn't just fall back on existing tropes...

Also, this has no effect on existing licensing contracts. Free League can continue publishing content under the existing agreement until it expires. The trouble will come when they try to renew. 😛

Holy.... This is arguably the biggest media rights business opportunity in history. I'm guessing the final sale price will be more than Disney paid for Star Wars and Marvel combined.

Despite the horrid, condescending rhetoric of the blog referenced in the OP, there is a small grain of truth hidden within. Despite feeling an urge to punch the author in the face, he is not wrong in saying race+class+abilities are not the only way of expressing uniqueness in a character...

As one surely knows, you can't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any . . . Grus.

Based on the OP's description, Tiny D6 (Tiny Dungeons or Tiny Frontiers) for the win. All of the books come with 8-10 pre-built mini-scenarios ready to go to help GM's get started.

I mentioned it earlier, but my big question in all of these hypotheticals is, does Nu-RPG, whatever it is, get off the ground and with the same traction as D&D before 1977? Because if not, I think the creative energy behind RPG design would radically shift following the release of Star Wars...

Going back to the parlor game alt theory --- the more I think about it, the more it makes sense that it would have been the genesis of the RPG movement. When I look at Ironsworn, for example: It doesn't make any assumption that there's anyone serving in a GM role, and provides strong guidance...

TS/SI was the 3rd RPG set I ever owned, after the red + blue boxes. Never played it though. Made tons and tons of characters for it though, and even tried hacking a magic system on to it at age 13.

In this context, Game of Thrones gets reframed against Warcraft -- "It's Warcraft, but in a funky alternate fantasy version of England."

Hmm, interesting. So less that D&D doesn't exist, but more that it just dies off before being revived. To me that would heavily weight the scale toward Warcraft eventually becoming the mind share RPG game. It has all the hallmarks taken from "the original RPG", but with a scale of penetration...

In other words, what would be the generonym for RPGs right now if D&D had never existed? Like, if a kid were to say, "I'm going to a friend's house to play Universal RPG Generonym"? In that case the the most likely answers are Star Wars, Warcraft, or Final Fantasy. *Edit: though I wonder just...

My thoughts go back to, what were the general conditions that gave rise to D&D? And yes, there's a huge shift if you assume that RPGs don't arrive until 1977 or later. As it stands, D&D has a pretty clear formative basis: Centered in the historical context of the early 1970s (important...

I'm not sure about the confusion . . . there's a 1-to-1 correlation between character material "bits" and rules complexity. The more mechanical bits a character has --- to either differentiate them from other characters or make the character more "realistic" within the assumed game world, or...