BESM anyone?

[VGmaster9]

Do you think there should be another edition of BESM? I'm surprised that support for it has stopped and I think a new edition would be great so more players could have a chance to play it.

 

[kitsune9]

I enjoyed playing 1st edition and 2nd edition. Most people can continue support for their favorite discontinued games through blogs and forming gaming communities. That may form the basis for getting a new edition in the works if there's enough interest.

Good luck and happy gaming!

 

[M.L. Martin]

Do you think there should be another edition of BESM? I'm surprised that support for it has stopped and I think a new edition would be great so more players could have a chance to play it.

Unfortunately, it sounds like the mess left behind by Guardians of Order's collapse has left the rights to the material in such a mess than no one is ever likely to be able to professionally revive it. There's a fan community out there, although I don't have the links offhand, and DriveThruRPG still has the PDFs (and 3rd Edition, at least, might eventually make it into Print on Demand format with WW's new initiative).

 

[wingsandsword]

I really liked 1st edition BESM.

It was fast, fun, adaptable, and a good rules-light game. You could probably condense the rules down into a single double-sided page of paper with small-but-legible font if you tried.

2nd Edition seemed to add too much "stuff" and took away the rules-light fun. I'm not normally one for the rules-light thing, but that game seemed to work for it.

It probably helped that we tended to play more silly action type anime games with BESM, like a campaign that was a blend of Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, and Tenchi Muyo. Those settings would feel all wrong with a complicated game.

I was aware that Guardians of Order collapsed, but not just how messy/big the failure was.