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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jay Murphy, Vanishing Tower Press, jay@vanishingtowerpress.com First Two Books in Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery RPG Series Deliver Rules-Light Classic Pulp-Fantasy Aspen, CO - Vanishing Tower Press is pleased to announce the release of the first two books for...

VANISHING TOWER PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jay Murphy, Vanishing Tower Press, jay@vanishingtowerpress.com First Two Books in Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery RPG Series Deliver Rules-Light Classic Pulp-Fantasy Aspen, CO - Vanishing Tower Press is pleased to announce the release of...

I have heard good things about Stars Without Number. Intrigued by the amount of tables promised between its pages.

Go old school and whip out a copy of FGU's Space Opera!

They are the devil. And Ice Cream.

"A base movement rate of 120' in ten minutes may seem slow, but it assumes that the players are mapping carefully searching, and trying to trying to be quiet. It also takes into account the generally 'dark and dingy' conditions of the dungeon in which characters are adventuring." No where is it...

Mapping can't be done while running, agreed. This is regardless if you believe the player or the character is actually doing the mapping. On B19 it says "Maps are drawn to help players visualized the area their characters are exploring and to provide a record of sections of a dungeon they have...

Not in Moldvay B/X. It explicitly says the opposite. Have you read it?

How is it weird? Making a map as you travel through buildings you have never been is weird, and is something no one does. Every exploration I have done in real life has never included stopping every ten minutes and mapping out where I am. I seem to find my brain remembers what I've seen and...

With the rules I use this is not a mechanic so nothing is gutted. The rest of your sentences are putting words in my mouth. Yes, characters can make a map and stick in their backpack and later make a paper hat out of it, whoopee. In DnD basic the map is a tool for the players to better visualize...

One of the reasons I prefer Moldvay Basic DnD. This is an example of 5th edition adding a meaningless mechanic. The "mapper" and mapping is recognized as a useful visual aid for players while, at the same time, characters living in the world don't need to map every ten feet of it to know where...

Mapping is an out of game activity, Basic DnD clearly explains the map is a tool for the PCs to visualize where they are from the DMs description, and the "mapper" is not a character, but a player. So there really is nothing which should be construed by the term "mapping" as something which...

I like the design solutions Chaosium hit on to create a class-less DnD not shortly after DnD was released into the world. For me this is best served by their rules reference tome Magic World and Elric!

I enjoy the life path systems found in Cyberpunk 2020, Traveller, and Warhammer Fantasy RPG. Maybe even more than I like running the game. Now as far as running a game, I really groove on the DC Heroes heartbreaker The Blood of Heroes. The system makes running super hero games fun for me...

Magic Realms, an out of print boardgame from Avalon Hill seemed to be the penultimate attempt at turning the ttrpg experience into a board game. I've only read about it and researched it on boardgamegeek, but that is what it appears to be to me.

I had a friend who would stuff his pockets with $500 from his monopoly game when he came over to play monopoly with the gang. I don't know how close this gets to roleplaying at a boardgame, or superseding the boardgame entirely by making your own private/solo ttrpg out of it... but he is the...

I've looked at board games more of a foil than an origin. The departure point where seekers who yet knew what they were looking for but knew they weren't able to find it in boardgames, though there were aspects of the form which really tried to deliver on the promise of "living" the experience.

Yes, and being the total navel gazer I am when it comes to elf games, I believe they ended up in a wargaming scene when the form started to shape in their minds because strangely enough, within those strict, and sometimes opaque, rule books and coded, rune-like cardboard chits was a story. Or an...

Also, why fantasy? I think because this is what the creators were into and this is the literary genre they were interested in experiencing.

I don't think you can escape a strong literary bent in ttrpg's. I think ttrpg's were designed with literary and narrative experience desired. I believe the urge for a ttrpg came from reading fiction, not playing wargames. I believe Arneson, and unknown many like him, were thinking about how to...