What Lost, Abandoned or Short Lived TTRPG would you like to see get a re-issue and new support?


log in or register to remove this ad

I was going to say this, but apparently they did a 3rd edition (really just looks like an update with added content) in 2019. Might need to grab it.

1756157368173.png
 

I though Chill had a current edition.
As someone else noted, it's complicated, but the nutshell, off-the-top-of-my-head-without-googling explanation is that the most recent edition's licensee, a company run by Matt McFarland and his wife, were humming along with a modest line of supplements for their own edition when some credible accusations were made against them (both sexual and financial). In the middle of the controversy, the McFarlands went scorched earth and decided to leave the gaming industry entirely (presumably in an attempt to firewall their day jobs). McFarland's company ceased publication of Chill 3rd Ed. and reverted rights back to the owner, who has since licensed it to a publisher called Salt Circle Games. SCG seems pretty small (even by TRPG publishing standards) and have been pretty quiet, though they have at least one supplement up on DTRPG.
 
Last edited:


There was a short lived RPG for the Terran Trade Authority books that I never saw in person. Loved the underlying IP, have no clue if the game was any good. There was a mix of space opera + weird sci-fi that was nicely sketched out, but with enough space left over for some good cooperative storytelling.

I’ve seen it on Amazon occasionally.


It seems like it would be ripe for a redux.
 


As someone else noted, it's complicated, but the nutshell, off-the-top-of-my-head-without-googling explanation is that the most recent edition's licensee, a company run by Matt McFarland and his wife, were humming along with a modest line of supplements for their own edition when some credible accusations were made against them (both sexual and financial). In the middle of the controversy, the McFarlands went scorched earth and decided to leave the gaming industry entirely (presumably in an attempt to firewall their day jobs). McFarland's company ceased publication of Chill 3rd Ed. and reverted rights back the owner, who has since licensed it to a publisher called Salt Circle Games. SCG seems pretty small (even by TRPG publishing standards) and have been pretty quiet, though they have at least one supplement up on DTRPG.

The current owners own both that and the 2e version, and sell them in PDF, but I hadn't seen any signs of any further material past what the McFarlands did for it (and to make it clear, nothing much in any of that material seemed to show any--questionable--elements past what you'd expect in a horror game, but people knowing the history of the authors may still find it leaves a bad taste in their mouths. Ironically, some pushback has come against it for being, well, too woke). There was some commentary from the current holders about a new edition, but nothing seems to have come of it.
 

There was a short lived RPG for the Terran Trade Authority books that I never saw in person. Loved the underlying IP, have no clue if the game was any good. There was a mix of space opera + weird sci-fi that was nicely sketched out, but with enough space left over for some good cooperative storytelling...
I had no idea that battlefield Press had done an edtion of TTA for Savage Worlds.
The original/earlier TTRPG mentions that "Only a single twenty-sided die is required to play." That makes me wonder if it'd be adapatable to True20 without heavy lifting?
 

Star Frontiers by TSR only lasted 3 years. It's a shame they tried to impose the FASERIP color code system instead of using the pages of Zebulon's Guide to the Galaxy to expand the setting. WoTC gave us a small nod with D20 Future. But with Exodus coming out, I'm 100% convinced SF is canned for good. WoTC fought for the IP to preserve their reputation, not to resurrect the RPG.
There was also the Alternity RPG that debuted in 1997 and was discontinued in 2000 after the acquisition of TSR by WoTC. Like Star Frontiers, it was also incorporated into d20 Future.
 

Infernum. The core rulebook is free.

Only 3 sourcebooks were released for it and unfortunately the mechanics were awful (it uses unrefined 3.5 d20 rules and it's completely unbalanced) even though the setting, lore, and characters were fascinating.

It's set in Hell and the PCs are Demons, Humans, or Fallen Angels. It's very much a grimdark setting (Demons are physically incapable of subsisting on anything other than energy gained from torturing souls or consuming other Demons) but has lots of great ideas.

I think it has a lot of potential if it had a better system.
 

Remove ads

Top