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I believe the first thing I ever did when I got access to spreadsheet software was try to use it to track RPG stats. Of course, at the time I was too young to really understand RPG stats either...

Visicalc would like to have a talk with you! (Unless you mean from the get go and not from this issue)

This is true but also, Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, Wizard are the "classic" core classes, so I think that may also have been part of the decision (especially in a deliberate throwback module).

Only if one player can only advance in levels by badly misunderstanding Chaos Theory and making endless philosophical speeches about it.

This is a good point. And to some extent in my brief time learning to DM so far it seems like even if you do have a solid story, you need to be prepared to players to attempt to upend it somehow. "Emergent gameplay" is the buzzword of the day and it actually defines a few video games I love.

Interesting. I like Lost Mines of Phandelver a lot because it has those story hooks but also opens up a bit later to allow players some choice. I'm new to DMing (and, uhh, hadn't played D&D in a long time), but I managed pretty well with it. Thanks for noting the change in style.

In planes. Which they are flying themselves. Must be done this way.

Could the Spikehead be a reference to the Mugato from Star Trek?

I forget that the "men's armor/women's armor" thing can be played just as badly with "men's space suit/women's space suit."

Using someone else's trademark or registered trademark in the promotion (advertising, title, obvious copy on the cover a book, etc,) of your own competing product can be a serious no-no. I'm not sure if this case would qualify, because I am not a lawyer.

That sounds great. You should put up a gallery of them somewhere.

Amen to this. In many forms of art.

Is there even a way to get that legally still? I tried contacting two emails at the publisher and one was a boilerplate redirecting me to email other addresses and the other said the address I tried to contact didn't exist. EDIT: Ignore, looks like it's still at DriveThruRPG.

That's helpful. Mention of the ships looking like the Terran Trade Authority ones has me interested (has come up here a lot recently). I'm sort of interested in the time dilation effects stuff, as I wanted to use that in a future anime robot campaign, but more as a background tool.

Hah! But in that case it was Interplay selling them rights they didn't have to Fallout, and them having to pivot and rebrand the product at the last minute, right? EDIT: Ooof, they didn't pivot very hard, did they?

It's very different. It's Traveler with just one L.

I do wonder if "not everyone has a D12" is much of an argument when you can get them for pennies (or maybe even a whole dollar post tariff) rapidly from multiple online sites (or locally, if you have a game store), even in multiple colors or your choice of two different types of dodecahedron.