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| | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | OP  Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | JanuaryAtlas GamesPlanegea Standard Edition Planegea GM Screen Planegea: In the Lair of the Night Thing Cubicle 7Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound Champions of Destruction Japanime GamesAbsolute Power RPG Book One: System Absolute Power RPG Book Two: Essentials Absolute Power RPG: Perfect Edition Absolute Power RPG: Gamemaster Screen Absolute Power RPG: Character Folio Mongoose Publishing230AD: Tools for Frontier Living Paizo PublishingPathfinder: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Battle Cards Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Alien Ruins Pathfinder Adventure Path: Gatewalkers Part 1 - The Seventh Arch Starfinder Flip-Mat: Basic Terrain Multi-Pack Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide Special Edition Zebeck the Clockwork City Collector's Edition (5E) Pathfinder: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | FebruaryCubicle 7WFRP: The Imperial Zoo Mongoose PublishingHigh Guard Update 2022 Paizo PublishingPathfinder RPG: Treasure Vault HC Starfinder Adventure Path: Drift Hackers Part 2 - Clockwork Demons Pathfinder Adventure Path: Gatewalkers Part 2 - They Watched the Stars Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse Special Edition Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Winter Forest | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | MarchAtomic Overmind PressTour de Lovecraft: The Destinations Catalyst Game LabsBattletech: Mercenaries Cubicle 7WFRP: Up in Arms Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champions of Destruction Goodman GamesMonsters & Magic of Lankhmar Mongoose PublishingAliens of Charted Space Volume 3 Paizo PublishingStarfinder Flip-Mat: Amusement Park Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs Starfinder Adventure: Drift Crisis Case Files Pathfinder Adventure Path: Gatewalkers Part 3 - Dreamers of the Nameless Spires Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands Campaign Builder: Cities and Towns (5E) Hardcover Campaign Builder: Cities and Towns Map Folio Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Noble Estate Wizards of the CoastD&D: Keys from the Golden Vault | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | I don't know about you guys but Age of Sigmar is just leaving me cold. It's the setting and visual design, they made Warhammer look like a rip-off of Warcraft... which is ironic because Warcraft looks like a rip-off of Warhammer!
You know what I mean? Warhammer's Old World setting was very distinctive, down to earth with a Nineties, grunge style. Age of Sigmar is colourful, more cartoonish super epic high fantasy. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | AprilCubicle 7WH40K: Imperium Maledictum Mongoose PublishingCentral Supply Catalogue Update 2023 2300AD: Project Bayern Paizo PublishingPathfinder Flip-Mat: Boardwalk Starfinder Adventure Path: Drift Hackers Part 3 - Into the Dataverse Pathfinder Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Part 1 - The Choosing Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar Special Edition HC Kobold Guide to Dungeons | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | MayPaizo PublishingPathfinder Flip-Mat: The Enmity Cycle Starfinder: Ports of Call HC Starfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Battlefield Pathfinder Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Part 2 - The Destiny War Pathfinder Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth Special Edition HC Pathfinder Adventure: The Enmity Cycle SC Tome of Beasts 3 Pocket Edition Renegade Game StudiosHunter: The Reckoning RPG - Premium Token Pack Steve Jackson GamesGregor's Guide to Gates | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | So I had to know... Gregor's Guide to Gates!? I looked it up: https://www.sjgames.com/gregorsguidetogates/Now, I'm not sure what this supplement details. It doesn't detail the world on either side of the gates, just the portals themselves. This one's round. This one's square...  I have no idea, it is a mystery. But if any of you ever read it and find out, let us know! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | So I had to know... Gregor's Guide to Gates!? I looked it up: https://www.sjgames.com/gregorsguidetogates/Now, I'm not sure what this supplement details. It doesn't detail the world on either side of the gates, just the portals themselves. This one's round. This one's square... I have no idea, it is a mystery. But if any of you ever read it and find out, let us know! I was curious myself, so I just read through it. It does indeed contain details of the world on the other side of the gates, although they are extremely brief. Of course, the entire book is extremely brief, and I just read it in eight minutes. Here's an example entry: "The Door of Flames Far below a towering mountain, near burning rivers of lava and fire, a twelve-foot-tall stone door is covered in a constantly burning flame. The door is unlocked and swings easily on its hinges, though anyone touching the door to open it suffers 3d8 points of fire damage. Stepping through the open door inflicts another 3d8 points of fire damage. When opened, the door leads to Inferno’s Heart, a circular demiplane inhabited by numerous fire creatures. Anyone can activate the Door of Flames and, once opened, it remains open for 24 hours before slamming shut. Once the portal opens to Inferno’s Heart, those who pass through the door find themselves standing on the bank of a river of fire. Fortunately, inhabitants native to Inferno’s Heart may not cross over into our world. Whatever magic constructed the gate centuries ago blocks those who dwell on that distant demiplane from using the gate to escape their world. Adventurers who use the gate suffer an additional 3d8 fire damage when they return to our world." Kinda feel like I could've come up with a better fiery gate to fiery place by myself. I am... bemused that there was a Kickstarter.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,522 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,522 Likes: 57 | Don't think anyone here is likely to purchase.. 
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Kinda feel like I could've come up with a better fiery gate to fiery place by myself. I am... bemused that there was a Kickstarter.  Thanks for sharing that, Saph. It is hard to understand why there's a market for such basic descriptions but hey, if they made money out of it and the backers were satisfied, I guess no harm, no foul. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | JuneGoodman GamesDungeon Crawl Classics: Dying Earth Paizo PublishingPathfinder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack Pathfinder Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Part 3 - Worst of All Possible Worlds Pathfinder Lost Omens: Highhelm Pathfinder Lost Omens: Highhelm Special Edition Renegade Game StudiosPower Rangers RPG: Standee Pack 1 Transformers RPG: The Time is Now Adventure HC Power Rangers RPG: Across the Stars Sourcebook HC | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | That Highhelm book's got me thinking. Has anyone here played in Pathfinder's fantasy setting? What's it like? How does it differentiate itself to Forgotten Realms, for example? Or maybe it doesn't. After all, Pathfinder was started as a way of maintaining a supported version of D&D 3rd Ed. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 | Pathfinder's fantasy setting (at least 1E, not sure if they changed in 2E), mostly the Inner Sea region of the planet Golarion but an extended number of other continents and even other planets, is fanTAStic. It is so rich and interesting from country to country and there is so much source material available. Plus, lots of it ties into game mechanics so it's really immersive. You can read a lot about it here: https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_WikiThe various Adventure Paths look at different regions in detail. Curse of the Crimson Throne looks at the devil-worshipping land of Cheliax, Wrath of the Righteous looks at the Worldwound with a direct connection to the Abyss, Kingmaker, the lawless River Kingdoms. My campaign of the Eternal Winter starts in ancient and decrepit Taldor, goes to Baba Yaga's own created kingdom of Irrisen ruled by the winter witch queens sandwiched between the nordic barbarians of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings and the tribes of the Mammoth Lords, then to the continent of Iobaria, then another planet of years-long winters or summers, then to a twisted version of the Russia of Rasputin and the end of the Romanovs. I got deeply into Pathfinder specifically for the richness of the game world. It's so good that Savage Worlds even made a book that you can play in it with Savage Worlds rules.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Nice! Thanks for the mini-review, Vryx. I'll have a closer look then.  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | One recent adventure path that I really love (on the page at least, haven't played it) is Strength of Thousands -- wizarding school set in the Mwangi Expanse, Golarion's equivalent of Africa. I really like how they keep trying different things and changing the formula up with their APs.
I wish Starfinder got more love too. | | 1 member likes this:
Vryx | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | I might try one of the Pathfinder CRPGs, might give a taste of the setting. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 | I'd recommend Kingmaker, I think, over Wrath of the Righteous. Though the kingdom management is kind of unforgiving.
Wrath of the Righteous is a very constrained story setting. Doesn't have the breadth. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | JulyChaosiumRivers of London: The Roleplaying Game Cubicle 7WFRP: Salzenmund: City of Salt and Silver Mongoose PublishingTraveller: Order of Prometheus Paizo PublishingPathfinder: Rage of Elements HC Pathfinder Rage of Elements Special Edition Starfinder Flip-Mat: Grav Trains Pathfinder Adventure Path: Sky King's Tomb Part 1 - Mantle of Gold Pathfinder Lost Omens: Absalom, City of Lost Omens Special Edition Pathfinder Rage of Elements Pocket Edition Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Urban Tavern Starfinder Adventure: Operation: Seaside Park Pathfinder Adventure: A Few Flowers More Renegade Game StudiosHunter: The Reckoning RPG - Lines Drawn in Blood Chronicle Book HC Hunter: The Reckoning RPG - Storyteller's Screen Kit Vampire: The Masquerade RPG: Player's Guide HC | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Hmm, I wouldn't have thought there was enough distinctive about Rivers of London to make an RPG out of it. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,123 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,123 Likes: 5 | You would be surprised at what =some= people will find to be a fun game <shudder>
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | AugustCubicle 7Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition, Gamemaster’s Screen WFRP: The Winds of Magic Green Ronin PublishingFantasy AGE 2nd Edition Paizo PublishingPathfinder Harrow Deck Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Underground City Multi-Pack Pathfinder Adventure Path: Sky King's Tomb Part 2 - Cult of the Cave Worm Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall Special Edition Renegade Game StudiosWerewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition Core Rulebook Vampire the Masquerade RPG: Dice Bag Power Rangers RPG: The Phantom Gambit Adventure HC Wizards of the CoastD&D: The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Werewolf: The Apocalypse is on its 5th Edition? Congrats to the original authors. Does it still use the buckets of d10 system? I always thought that went too far. I love dice, don't get me wrong, but you can have too much of a good thing, especially on a crowded table. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | Werewolf: The Apocalypse is on its 5th Edition? Congrats to the original authors. Does it still use the buckets of d10 system? I always thought that went too far. I love dice, don't get me wrong, but you can have too much of a good thing, especially on a crowded table. It's gone in a pretty different direction with the system, but it's still d10-based. Unfortunately it's also pretty awful, like most of WoD 5E. (Unsurprisingly, the only actual good WoD 5E books so far have been the ones published under license by Onyx Path, but they're not contracted to do any more.) If one isn't overly attached to the Apocalypse setting, then Werewolf: The Forsaken 2E is much more cleanly designed and better written... and if one's looking for the Apocalypse setting specifically, well, Paradox have made such a royal mess of it that the 20th Anniversary Edition is still a better pick. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Thanks for the overview, Saph. I saw they'd changed some of the tribes and wandered if they'd removed much of the weirdness like they did in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | Thanks for the overview, Saph. I saw they'd changed some of the tribes and wandered if they'd removed much of the weirdness like they did in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. Definitely. It's so bland now that a lot of the tribes don't really have much identity. In doing so, they've created such an overlap with auspices (the Ghost Council writeup might as well be the theurge writeup) that it's all an indistinct mess. The book contradicts itself a lot on what the Garou are actually for now as well. (I wrote about a thousand words of criticism on the topic elsewhere, but I'll spare you all the word count.  )
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | Since so much of the TTRPG industry is crowdfunded now, and I back several per month (up to 13 this month! 😅), would a periodic writeup of nifty ongoing and upcoming TTRPG kickstarters be of use to anyone? (Not to co-opt this topic, just don't want to go making a thread for it if I'll be talking to myself!) | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,522 Likes: 57 Wizop Administrator | | Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,522 Likes: 57 | I think it would be interesting for the members to know what future potential there might be. And it might encourage more investment also, never a bad thing. I'll set you up a thread in this section. No long term commitment but as long as it interests you Thanks! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 99 Likes: 1 | I think it would be interesting for the members to know what future potential there might be. And it might encourage more investment also, never a bad thing. I'll set you up a thread in this section. No long term commitment but as long as it interests you Thanks! That's great! Thanks Gypsy! I'll go whip something up. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | SeptemberAtlas GamesKitty Noir (Magical Kitties 2E) Game Master Kit (Magical Kitties 2E) ChaosiumPendragon 6th Edition Starter Set Mongoose PublishingParanoia: The Perfect Edition Paranoia: The Accomplice Book Paranoia: GM's Screen Paizo PublishingStarfinder Flip-Mat: Mining Operation Pathfinder Adventure Path: Sky King's Tomb Part 3 - Heavy is the Crown Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Haunted Dungeon Roll for CombatBattlezoo Ancestries: Dragons HC Battlezoo: Bestiary HC Battlezoo: Jewel of the Indigo Isles HC Rowan, Rook and Decard LtdDie: The Roleplaying Game HC | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Great to see Magical Kitties growing. Kitty Noir is the perfect setting for it. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | OctoberMonte Cook GamesOld Gods of Appalachia RPG Rulebook HC Old Gods of Appalachia RPG: Player's Guide The Weird Paizo PublishingPathfinder Flip-Mat: Rusthenge Starfinder Enhanced Pathfinder Adventure Path: Season of Ghosts Part 1 - The Summer That Never Was Pathfinder Lost Omens: Travel Guide Special Edition Pathfinder Adventure: Rusthenge Wizards of the CoastD&D: Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants HC D&D: Phandelver and Below - The Shattered Obelisk HC D&D: Planescape - Adventures in the Multiverse HC | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | The Weird might be one of those books that's handy for all GMs to have on their shelf. The sort of thing you might flick through before a session to help stoke your imagination. https://www.montecookgames.com/the-weird/Every chapter gives you advice on how to make a particular topic more interesting, then gives you literally hundreds of actionable ideas to run with. NPCs, creatures, places, magic items, gear, spells, abilities, names, appearances, backgrounds, plots, structures, vehicles—and yes, even player characters—each get a chapter. Make anything in your game more interesting! Sometimes it's hearing someone else's ideas of how to inject some spice that spurs me to come up with my own. Enthusiasm is contagious. | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | Very cool idea Nem!
Might have to pick it up! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | NovemberMongoose PublishingTraveller: Trailing Frontier Monte Cook GamesThe Devil's Dandy Dogs The Glimmering Valley Paizo PublishingPathfinder: Player Core Book Pathfinder: GM Core Book Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Night Market & Shrine Starfinder Flip-Mat: Living Starships Pathfinder Adventure Path: Season of Ghosts Part 2 - Let the Leaves Fall Renegade Game StudiosPower Rangers RPG: Finster's Monster-Magic Cookbook HC Transformers RPG: Decepticon Dice Set Transformers RPG: Decepticon Dice Bag Transformers RPG: A Beacon of Hope Adventure & Game Master Screen December 2023 Gods of Metal: Ragnarock RPG HC Roll for CombatBattlezoo Bestiary: Strange & Unusual HC Wizards of the CoastD&D: The Deck of Many Things HC | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Oooh, now Gods of Metal Ragnarok is a game I can get behind! Heavy metal fantasy RPG. It's like a tabletop version of Brütal Legend! | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | Funny!
I completely missed that in the listings. I hit the traveller stuff and went into blah blah mode.
Thanks for pointing it out! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | You wanna know something crazy? I have never played Traveller. Ever. In any iteration. I should probably remedy that some day. Heck, I don't even know what it's about other than it's sci-fi! | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | Most of my traveler experience goes via the wayback machine. When it first started it was a life path character creation system. What that essentially means is you made rolls to see where your life took you along the path. In their infinite gamist wisdom, you could die on that path. So each roll to make a better character carried with it an inherent risk. My friends and I are all nerds, yes shocking I know. One friend decided it was stupid to get 20 rolls into creating the character you wanted and have it expire, thus end. So he sat down and wrote a program in basic on an old computer that ran thousands of iterations to get different characters and took out the ones that died. So you could munchkin your character even though there were rolls and tables involved. We had fun playing Traveler, but I can't speak to current versions. I would personally say there are much better sci-fi game systems out there now. No need to go back to what it once was. But at least it was a start! | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Being Munchkin is a way of life. I think Mongoose changed Traveller's system back in D&D 3e days and it's been their baby ever since. They've also made a Traveller prequel called 2300AD, about humanity's first contacts. They have 15 core rulebooks listed on their site! That's a lot of books, though about half of them seem to be gear. I guess it's still one of those Nineties-style systems where gear is all important and they used to release fictional catalogues full of the stuff. | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | 2300 wasn't too bad. Greatly improved vs the classic Traveler.
But milage may vary as with all things. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | So is Traveller more Star Trek or Star Wars, would you say, Pande? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,435 Likes: 5 | I always thought of Traveller more like if Robert Heinlein inspired an RPG. More "hard" sci-fi stuff. Do I have that right with the newer editions, Pande?
We played SpaceMaster back in the late 80s, the sci-fi equivalent of RoleMaster, but also used the nickname "SplatMaster" because it was just insanely deadly in combat. We lost the whole party to a grenade in the first session.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | I would agree with Vryx. Star Wars is sci-fi fantasy, space opera, which is totally fun, but different. Star Trek is even more fantasy but with certain underpinnings that draw it a particular flavoristic way. (Not sure that is even a word. ) Traveller was intended to be more realistic, in its own vein. Never played SpaceMaster, not sure I need to with that TPK recommendation.  | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Well I'm glad it's still in print. We need solid alternatives to Star Wars and Star Trek. Those two have become a little staid imo and of course the RPG licences are tightly controlled. For example, when FFG published their Star Wars games, they weren't allowed to sell PDFs because they only had rights to printed products. Awkward. | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | For example, when FFG published their Star Wars games, they weren't allowed to sell PDFs because they only had rights to printed products. Awkward. Wow I had no idea, but that is kinda screwed up. I get why they protect their intellectual property that way, but... as a serious pdf consumer, it leaves me without an option.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Absolutely. It made running an FFG Star Wars campaign online rather dependent on jolly roger PDFs, since it was impossible for players to sit around the table reading each others books.
Of course, this was the intention of the restriction. Technically playing online is "digital gaming", which is a much higher value licence than tabletop. | | | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator | | Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,029 Likes: 10 | Another interesting.
I had no idea, but again I can see the mindset, access etc... | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 Administrator | | OP Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 10,543 | DecemberCubicle 7Doctors and Daleks: Collector’s Edition Doctors and Daleks: Player's Guide Doctors and Daleks: Alien Archive Doctors and Daleks: Keys of Scaravore WH40K: Imperium Maledictum Core Rulebook WH40K: Imperium Maledictum Gamemaster's Screen WFRP: Sea of Claws Wrath & Glory: Redacted Records Goodman GamesDungeon Crawl Classics #100: The Music of the Spheres in Chaos Green Ronin PublishingMutants & Masterminds RPG: Astonishing Adventures Assembled! SC Mongoose PublishingTraveller: The Imperial Navy Paizo PublishingPathfinder Rage of Elements Spell Cards Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Planes of Metal and Wood Pathfinder Adventure Path: Season of Ghosts Part 3 - No Breath to Cry Renegade Game StudiosMy Little Pony RPG: Core Rulebook HC My Little Pony RPG: Character Journal HC My Little Pony RPG: Dice Set | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 Wobbly Headed Administrator | | Wobbly Headed Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13,063 Likes: 9 | Ah finally, a Warhammer 40K RPG that's set entirely within Imperial domains. It's a shame the d100 system is so clunky otherwise I'd be well up for that. There's enough intrigue, adventure and richness within the Imperium to carry a campaign, I think, without bringing in the armies of xenos and heretics. At that point you're better off playing the wargame (if you can afford it ). | | |
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