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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1346893" data-attributes="member: 6398">Shards of the Stone was released by Obsidian Studios based on the Fuzion engine. The idea was that the world had been shattered by evil gods shortly after being created and that the characters were born of worlds that were just fragments of it (picture a campaign with only the Ethereal Plane and a crap load of demiplanes in it with a mysterious "beyond" in which the gods dwell). Obsidian planned on releasing multiple worlds, and gamers/fans were invited to create their own worlds and link them via the Shard's website. It was a cool idea, but the system was over-burdened (350+ pages in order to include every possibility in a setting of supposed infinite possibilities) and it was released at Gen Con during the same year as 3E. If they had waited six months to learn the d20 Engine, or converted the system over, it would likely still be around. As it is, though, it had only a few loyal fans and passed into obscurity as the OGL/d20STL took over the market. (I got the main rulebook with all the author's signatures and a few of the artist's... Not that it's worth much for it...) Are you as happy as I am that Green Ronin got the Black Company license?  Anyone ever compare your predictability to Nightfall's? (Yes, this is in jest... I like you both. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) That's definately flavored better, that's for sure... Although I likely wouldn't mimic the show that much, characters like that would probably make the show better. Heck, change the names and write a book; I don't think anyone would notice the resemblance. Of course, what's scary is that (in the new ones), Adam/He-Man is the decendant of the ancient ruler of Eternia, King Grayskull (to whom the Sorceress was wed and, presumably, birthed the line of Kings, which would make Teela (sp?) Adam's Great^20 Grand Aunt), and Snake Mountain was the throne of Grayskull's ancient foe, King of the Snake People. (Proving that cheese does not smell better after 20 years... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) Of course, I've been stuck watching the new Transformers as well... That show is just unforgivable (Megatron merged with Unicron to evolve into a sentient city in which Auto/Deceps live together in peace under Optimus' benevolent rule??? And now here come the, get this folks, "Terrorcons" to disrupt the peace forged between the two super-powers of Cybertron. Pul-Eeze...). Ehr... I'm rambling... I'll stop now...</blockquote>

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