Quote from: Teflon BillyCa you expand al ittle on why you dislike Little Fears?

This is the first negative comment I have ever heard about it.

Let's just say I find the subject matter itself to be questionable in a rpg. Toss in some interesting features of the mechanics and where they take that subject matter, and it becomes something that I think nicely defines what has gone wrong in rpgs (and is a reflection of a ethical and spiritual sickness that has infected western culture as a whole).

In short, it's not my kind of game.

I'll likely do a full blown review some time soon. Just to get it out of my mind and off to 'paper'.

QuoteSo it's not as complex, and to you this is a bad thing?

Yes. I became a gamer, because I got sick of simple games. I can play them with my Mother in Law, not during my valuable Country-Conquering, Feat Stacking quality time with my buddies.

QuoteI'd rather play in a good game of Uno than M:tG these days.

More power to you.

Especially that you find nothing wrong with my comparison I find it more and more being a very neat fit.

Thus it is with the differences in taste.

Quote from: gleichmanLet's just say I find the subject matter itself to be questionable in a rpg. Toss in some interesting features of the mechanics and where they take that subject matter, and it becomes something that I think nicely defines what has gone wrong in rpgs (and is a reflection of a ethical and spiritual sickness that has infected western culture as a whole).

Unfortunately I don't have much baseline info to paste that onto.

QuoteI'll likely do a full blown review some time soon. Just to get it out of my mind and off to 'paper'.

Let me know when it's posted would you? jeff underscore ranger at yahoo  dott com

Quote from: Teflon BillyLet me know when it's posted would you? jeff underscore ranger at yahoo  dott com

Ok. I'll make a public note of it here. Someone can carry the new to RPGNet for me.

It will be good for restarting the gleichman witchhunt in all its fury.


Nah, it couldn't possibility do that. I'm too old news. At best I get a nice long thread of there of them calling me names. And oddly it will get by their moderation policy as always...

Quote from: gleichmanOk. I'll make a public note of it here. Someone can carry the new to RPGNet for me.

It will be good for restarting the gleichman witchhunt in all its fury.


Nah, it couldn't possibility do that. I'm too old news. At best I get a nice long thread of there of them calling me names. And oddly it will get by their moderation policy as always...

that bad huh?

Quote from: Teflon Billythat bad huh?

From my PoV.

But I'm a throwback, so it's to be expected.

I write and play pervy indie games.  Behold my wrist: It is so limp it is like unto a piece of overcooked spaghetti!  The publishers here are all just folks: Matt, Matt, Ron, Vincent, Emily, Joshua, Clinton, etc.  They all have names for their companies but whatever.

I also love D&D 3.  The best material I've seen for it comes out of Monte Cook and Mike Mearls, although mostly I just write my own.  Most d20 designers have no concept of how to write for the game.  They wouldn't know mathematical balancing if it hit them in the face.

yrs--
--Ben

Quote from: SettembriniGDW. There is no successor. WoTC and Paizo are my Methadone during the interregnum.

They did a bunch of good stuff, especially Traveller.  But they don't deserve sainthood.  They had their share of lousy products and broken rules.  Poor copy editing was usually a problem as was confusing layout and organization.  I've bought games from them that had neither a table of contents nor an index.

Quote from: KrishnathWotC, Necromancer Games, Green Ronin, White Wolf's Warcraft D20 stuff.

Here I thought I was the only WoWd20 lubber in the world.

And, of course, Green Ronin is an old favorite (but alas, True20 does nothing for me.)

RPGObjects is great, with their Legends and D20 Modern stuff.

I'm just waiting to love Crafty Games, if they ever release anything...

Goodman has really been churning out some good stuff these days.

Green Ronin is the best out there I think. I have spent a ton of their books and have most either in print or pdf. Same with Malhavok. AE and Iron Heroes are my favs.

As for dislikes, Mongoose. Some of their products are good but most seem to be poorly edited and poorly playtested. That said I have still bought several of the better books like Conan.

Like:
~ Green Ronin: I like both 'WFRP' and 'True20'.
~ Troll Lord Games: I like 'Castles & Crusades'.
~ Necromancer Games: The 'Wilderlands' is very cool.
~ Goodman Games: I dig many of their 'Dungeon Crawl Classics' (e.g. 'Legacy of the Savage Kings', 'Lost Vault of Tszathar Rho', 'The Mysterious Tower').
~ Eden: I like the 'Angel' rpg.  Too bad they don't publish more.
~ Iron Crown Enterprises: 'HARP' looks interesting, and I still like 'Shadow World' after 20 years (!).

Apathetic:
~ White Wolf: none of their games have ever appealed to me, but I don't know enough about them to really dislike them (though the very idea of 'Exalted' annoys me).
~ Wizards of the Coast: I dislike the aesthetics and game philosophy of most of their products.  However, I do own the 'core' 3.5 books, and use them regularly (I'm no fan of 3.5, but it's the easiest game for which to find other players).  Few of their additional 'crunch' books appeal to me (notable exceptions: 'Unearthed Arcana' and 'Heroes of Horror', both of which are good).  I moderately dislike their two official campaign settings ('Forgotten Realms' and 'Eberron').
~ Mongoose: I like the Conan game, but everything else is pretty 'meh' IMO.  If they do a good job with 'Runequest', though, I may change my view of the company.

Dislike:
~ Malhavoc: all their products seem to appeal to a kind of gaming (emphasis on 'crunch', ubiquitious magic, etc.) that I actively dislike.  I'm sure Monte Cook is a decent guy, but I just don't like his style of game at all.
~ Palladium.
~ Obvious: FFE and Avalanche Press (are these still around?)

Quote from: ColonelHardisson... Necromancer Games puts out all kinds of good stuff. Love the City State, love the Wilderlands... but I may be biased because I did a bit of work on the Wilderlands.

Cool!  What parts of the Wilderlands did you work on?

Quote from: AkrasiaCool!  What parts of the Wilderlands did you work on?

Well, this is the updating of the Wilderlands I'm talking about. I was one of the people who volunteered to straighten up and add some detail to the files - stuff like NPC names and adventure hooks. I covered castles, towers, and villages for Lenap and the Desert Lands. It was a long time between doing that the release of the Wilderlands box set, so it's hard for me to tell how much of what I did made the cut. I know more of it than I expected did, though, and I'm still jazzed when I read through it and recognize old PC and NPC names from my campaigns of years gone by, and see an adventure hook I know is mine. Fun stuff.