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Even though the systems for figuring out success and failure get changed a lot, you're doing the same things. With 4ed that gets thrown out the window. Agreed. One reason I disliked my encounter with 4e was because the darned thing simply did not work like I expected = I thought the sequence you me...

People will flock to a system if it is better , whether sacred cows die or not. People embraced D&D3e's BAB, people embraced SR4's fixed target numbers. The deaths of sacred cows are used as post-hoc rationalizations for why people don't like things, but they do not in and of themselves factor ...

People complain about 4e Powers because they are bland and shitty, not because they are fundamentally different from Spells, Invocations, or Martial Adept Maneuvers. -Username17 So... it's not that any cows were harmed during the making of 4e, it was that their replacements were inadequate and unfu...

THAC0 was what 'saved' our campaign, what made it so fast that we referred to it as 'turbo AD@D' in the late 1980s when I played it it in Japan. I mean, it was light-years ahead of anything we'd ever seen before. Oh. So it was a simplification of the even more labyrinthian Combat Resolution Tables ...

THAC0 was invented in 1E. Since there were different tables for every character class, THAC0 was designed for the NPC table only. THAC0 was not the "sacred cow." THAC0 was the "extra sauce," the thing that made 2E easier than 1E (where everything was a lookup table). There clear...

Kaelik wrote:... Stupid dumbfuck Swordslinger ... WTF!!!!!

.... and a happy New Year to you, too, Cowlick!

Cent13

The new MW game already has a registration site. They're taking in early sign ups for people who want to reserve their handle/name. The World of Tanks engine is considered a likely candidate as there are already two announced games working under the same engine (World of Warplanes, World of Battles...

... the official story is that MW5 died because they couldn't find a publisher who would put up enough money to start/complete the game. Two years ago? Yeah, the timing would be about right... but of course, all the buzz at the time was about HG getting into high dudgeon about the similarities betw...

There's a strong suspicion that they will use the World of Tanks engine for this actually. You know, I said the same thing to Bill. I just asked him and he says he probably confused the new one with that MW:5 game they quietly killed a few years back (reportedly) due to Harmony Gold's threatened li...

Just wondering about this game... I signed up for it, but that and the forum are about all that is active. 1) How long 'til it's up and running? 2) I hear it is F2P, but there've been murmurs that this will quickly degrade into P2W, if it doesn't start there already. 3) I have discussed this game wi...

Based on a load of hooey. You can no more invent an alien, ie, 'new' morality than you can invent a new color. 'If Evolutionary psychology is true, some form of genetic determinism must be true as well. This is simply the thesis that the hjman mind is the expression of its human genes. No slippage i...

Huh. The guy who did that message is also the line dev for Shadowrun?

Pardon my ignorance in these matters. It just seems odd that a fellow who uses 'accessing' twice when he means 'assessing' and substitutes 'who's' for 'whose' is in charge of anything that involves the printed word.

Cent13

Seems like it's the culmination of several attempts to do the site in.

They get no sympathy from me. The money that could have been spent on site security updates was probably used to gold-plate Loren L. Coleman's shower head.

Cent13

Heh. Someone hacked the forums over at CGL's Battletech site.

Everyone is going to have to re-register. After they get the site back up, of course.

Talk about anarchy. There are going to be a lot of pissed off fanboys jonesing for their fix, if post count is any indicator.



Cent13

So it's the new year. Weren't we supposed to find out around now if Topps was renewing CGL's license? In a few weeks, yeah. -Username17 Could you keep abreast of the situation? I don't see Topps not giving them the license at this point, but you never know. And Coleperson is still in the driver's s...

As if anyone who can stomach working for CGL would care about letters. Good point. I was looking over their latest BT products and was amazed at the apparent slapdash production values in some of their PDFs. There are several pieces of art I would never have passed (for various reasons), and their ...

I guess Catalyst just announced some new Shadowrun product? Any opinions on this stuff?

Wtf. You got me. Seriously, Frank seems to think things are not as rosy financially behind the scenes as CGL/IMR would have the world think. Will Topps continue to invest their time and licenses in order to recoup the money they are owed? Or is the company management so inept (and it is not just Fr...

Well, I'd think a brief review of your activity in this thread would be sufficient, but seeing as this is the third time you've brought it up: Kaelik is not a CGL fanbitch. Are you kidding me? Oh, you're not. Okay, I concur. Cowlick is not a CGL fanbitch . I jumped in the wayback machine and took a...

Now that the settlement is official (the judge signed the agreement: http://ia331218.us.archive.org/3/items/gov.uscourts.wawb.504666/gov.uscourts.wawb.504666.31.0.pdf), I'm wondering if we'll see a press release from Wildfire or IMR. I'd bet money on "no". Generally, one thing IMR *would*...

AH, rather than continuing this... Dicksplash. How... appropriate . And he's been one all along; kudos to him/her/it for consistency. Which is more than I've seen from Cowlick, who seems to jump from one side to the other depending on the weather and the day of the week. Yes, am hoping the IRS will...

In my locality, most BT players are indeed older and often play historical wargames. The few of them who are still around anyway. Older than what? Dirt? Sadly, I must agree. As with The Flatline, I have to drive about 100 miles to get to Redmond, where they hold the game. Games in Tacoma consume a ...

From my understanding Battletech, despite producing more products in a year than Shadowrun, draws in less money than SR. Make of that what you will, but to me it says SR is more popular than BT. Unfortunately, that is very true. I move in the wrong circles to see it, but sales figures don't lie. Un...

I know you like to cultivate an image of yourself as the man with all the information, but personally I think you are talking out of your ass. Ah... you must be the pep squad. So that is what you think of Frank's statements personally? OK. What do you think of him as a professional? Oh, that's righ...

Forrest is kind of like Walter Model, a skilled commander in an evil cause who was personally committed to the cause. This doesn't change the fact that both were military geniuses and were among the best generals in their wars. But that's the point - they were personally committed to the cause. So ...