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I still have the double deck of cards they sold for the original version of Deadlands. It was the one piece of the old collection I couldn't bear to part with.

I've been unable to run through the entire game a second time. I tried another Dark Urge playthrough, but I stalled in act 3 and just felt like I couldn't be bothered. I'll probably run through it again a few years from now when I've forgotten a lot of the game.

There's two types of gimmicky dice I think. There's dice like those for Vampire 5th edition or FUDGE which are just d10s or d6s respectively with little symbols pertinent to their specific systems. You can use regular d10s and d6s for those games though without any problem. Then there are...

Ships in Star Fleet Battles were designed with the thought they were constructed to perform other functions outside of a single combat scenario. A Federation PF was designed for short range patrols and had both limited range and function when compared to a heavy cruiser. The problem with games...

Too much dialogue during an active battle is something of a pet peeve of mine. Shouting "Get to the choppa!" is fine, but I dislike when PCs try to convey complex ideas in paragraph form while dodging fireballs and axes.

Another problem is one of skill allocation. In most games, if you're a crack pilot you're character is likely less capable in situations that down involve flying. And in most games you spend more time not piloting than you do piloting.

I think any science fiction setting with a space navy resembling what we're used to with surface navies is going to require a shot of some good old fashioned suspension of disbelief. Make it a double if we've got faster-than-light travel and alien navies. Shows like Babylon 5 tried to strike a...

It's been more than 30 years since I've played SFB, but they have drones, and I think the Kzinti were famous for them. As I remember it, there were different types of drones, fast, heavy, ECM, and maybe a few others, and a ship could only control so many at any given time. A dedicated drone...

Didn't Baldur's Gate 2 start out with my character tortured and imprisoned, my beloved pal Khalid murdered, and my sister gets taken by the magic police for casting spells? The first BG was all about the child of a murder god running around trying to kill all his siblings so he could have the...

I will defend d20 CoC to my dying day. It's never been my preferred version of the game, but it was a well thought out game that did a great job adapting CoC to the d20 system. It did an especially good job of providing players and GMs new to CoC with information about what it was all about.

That's exactly the beaty of GURPS, it's just I don't think that particular type of game is currently in favor. Rather than building a game from the ground floor, most gamers would rather buy something ready to play out of the box. But who knows? Maybe in 10-15 years GURPS will make a comeback?

I tend to view GURPS less as a game and more as a toolkit to build a game with. With most games, even a complicated game like Pathfinder, you're getting a complete game in the package. The GM doesn't have to create the player character classes, species, spells, equipment, skills, etc., etc...

I sure has heck wouldn't want to be the studio trying to follow up on Larian's success with BG3. Those are some mighty big shoes to fill.

I always feel like I'm kicking someone's puppy when I say GURPS isn't popular these days. GURPS certainly has a very loyal, active fanbase. A fanbase made up of intelligent, attractive people who love tinkering around with building their own unique settings or adapting an existing setting for...

Just trying to play Phoenix Command was a horror in and of itself.

Isn't GURPS pretty much on life support? It's a great game, I cut my teeth on 3rd edition in the late 80s, even played a little 4th edition in 2005, but it doesn't seem anywhere near as popular as it was in the 90s. It used to be that I could walk into my FLGS and see tons of GURPS sourcebooks...

I'm eight episodes in and it's on par with the original series. The tone and humor is pretty much spot on.

Some players care. One of the things that makes D&D so popular is it caters to a wide audience. If you don't care about the particulars of a setting, it's generally not going to be a problem. You can essentially play the exact same D&D character in Forgotten Realms that you can in Greyhawk or...

The escape pod boxed set came with both droids. They were a lot of fun to paint. The colors aren’t a 100% match, but you can tell who they are, so I’m happy.