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I thought that Saga Edition Star Wars was the best d20 system I ever played. I think d20 reached its sweet spot between crunch and narrative effect with that system. D&D3.5 wasn't quite there yet, and D&D4e progressed the system to the point where I felt it lost that perfect balance. But Saga...

I'm not so sure Palps thought about good and evil the way we do. He definitely did an effective job of deconstructing the ethos of the Jedi enough that even Count Dooku bought into it, not to mention Maul and Anakin. Perhaps Palps genuinely felt that the Jedi were and have always been corrupt...

I'm currently reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the stuff they don't teach you in school. Next on my list will be Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America by Mary Grabar, actually refuting the stuff they teach you in...

I used an opening-credits montage in a 1970s street-level everyman-hero Game that I ran with the d20 modern system...I called it the "D20 Mod" game. It was told in the style of a 70s cop t.v. show, using as many of the conventions of that genre and medium as I could think of, including evil...

WOW! That takes me back, 5ekyu! I remember as an early teenager walking the mile or so to the library with my gaming group, researching stuff for our AD&D games, and getting distracted by the eye-catching cover art of fiction novels (not the least of which included John Norman's Gor series)...

Whoah...that's creepy...kind of reminds me of Asimov's Robots and Empire, when the characters arrive on Solaria to find it seemingly deserted of human life but the robots still going about their daily activities. 🤖

I have been a huge fan of Ars Magica since the mid-90s, when I moved to New York City and met a group of gamers there who were running a campaign of it with 4th edition. I got in on the campaign relatively close to the ground floor, and it was our flagship game for about 4 years. Since then, I...

The last news post to Pen & Paper Games is dated March of 2015. Is the site dead? Does anyone go there and check their account anymore? I certainly haven't received any emails from the site since March of 2015.

Other things that struck me on the first watch: the nod to E.T. with the finger-touch at the end of Chapter 1 the nod to Rocky & Sergio Leone with the soundtrack the nod to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the sandcrawler scraping the mountainside Ahoy, maties! 🏴‍☠️

Boba Fett wasn't a "foundling," he was a clone. Some nods I noticed and appreciated: The Man with No Name, literally, so far Madmartigan and the baby (see also Lone Wolf & Cub manga) The 1960s Batman TV series climb up the side of the sandcrawler The weapon Boba Fett used in his Star Wars...

Any RPGers in Philadelphia interested in a game of FATE? Setting is negotiable.

Super helpful. Thank you for parsing all this out, gentlemen.

Yes, well, in keeping with Darjr's reference to Metamorphosis Alpha, I suppose the original official bait-and-switch game was the 1st ed. AD&D module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, in which the players gradually find out that the dungeon their PCs are crawling in is actually a marooned...

Well, it comes up often in my games like this: GM: Okay, the Big Bad Evil Guy goes first and rolls his Attack against you. (Rolls the dice) He gets a total of four. Roll your Defense. PLAYER: (rolls and does his math) I defend with a total of three...but...(picks up a FATE chip), I have...

Yes, that is true, Ratskinner. I guess I inartfully worded that. Perhaps rather than "final word," I should have referred to "designer's intent."

Yes, the Core Rules recommends -- it seems in lieu of giving NPCs any FATE points -- giving NPCs "advantages" that they have "created" prior to the encounter with the PCs (if that could reasonably have happened). The book says to give an NPC one such advantage and that giving them "two or three...

You know, in 2013, I created my own FATE phpBB forum at ForumMotion. It didn't get much traffic because it those days it was eclipsed by the FATE Google+ and YahooGroups communities. Bu-u-u-u-ut, since those communities are now defunct, if there are any refugees from those groups that are...

Thanks. I'm sad because the game designers used to participate in the Google+ and YahooGroups discussions. While I value the opinions of the learned members of these forums, it was nice to have the designers' final word on things.

In the Fate Core system, there is no mention as to whether NPCs get built with their own personal FATE points (FPs). The Rules as Written seem to say in a bit of a circuitous way that NPCs don't get personal FPs like PCs do, but I have found at least a single contradiction in the rulebook. I...