Quote from: PonchoGoblin on December 02, 2021, 04:05:34 PM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 16, 2021, 09:39:48 AM
There are so many obscure RPGs lost to time because copyright law prevents them from being preserved.

So true, feels like licenses lapsing will cause a lot of games to just get... Lost, for a sense. Curious to see how it'll impact FFG Star Wars, Mongoose Traveller, etc. in years to come. Granted, stuff like OGLs and SRDs make some of those games never truly lost.

Hmm...  If only there was a way to upload copies of them to some type of archive...

Quote from: 3catcircus on December 02, 2021, 04:54:48 PM

Quote from: PonchoGoblin on December 02, 2021, 04:05:34 PM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 16, 2021, 09:39:48 AM
There are so many obscure RPGs lost to time because copyright law prevents them from being preserved.

So true, feels like licenses lapsing will cause a lot of games to just get... Lost, for a sense. Curious to see how it'll impact FFG Star Wars, Mongoose Traveller, etc. in years to come. Granted, stuff like OGLs and SRDs make some of those games never truly lost.

Hmm...  If only there was a way to upload copies of them to some type of archive...

Yes, there is digital archiving, but physical copies will be lost to time unless well preserved.

Quote from: PonchoGoblin on December 02, 2021, 04:05:34 PM
So true, feels like licenses lapsing will cause a lot of games to just get... Lost, for a sense.

The duration of copyrights will ensure many will get lost. I'll be long dead by the time anyone unearths my writing.If ever.

If it's your own writing, you may release it into the public domain, now, or in five years, or as part of your will immediately after your death, or whenever you see fit.

Just found a copy of RUS while clearing out a storage shed.

And my old Hoyle's Rules of Games from around 63. Not RPG related but still a trove of games packed into it.

Quote from: Omega on September 27, 2020, 10:50:54 AM
Universe from SPI.

I got a copy of that used. Don't know about the rules but the star map was better than the one for Traveller 2300.

I've always been a fan of Space Opera's sector maps since they feel like space to me.

Part 12 in my Forgotten Games series on my blog.

https://www.pigames.net/store/blog.php?entry=2922

Quote from: Sanson on November 19, 2021, 10:03:34 PM
I got a lot of mileage out of the old Arcanum book (from the Atlantean trilogy), despite never having the money to buy the other two books, which weren't
easy to find.  It had a great deal i homebrewed into one of my old campaigns. 

Sadly i don't have it anymore, along with other things i'm missing (such as the old James Bond RPG). 

The Arcanum was great.  The other two books are worth the effort to track down.  It's a real shame that system was not more popular and was not better supported.

Quote from: I on June 24, 2022, 08:37:57 AM

Quote from: Sanson on November 19, 2021, 10:03:34 PM
I got a lot of mileage out of the old Arcanum book (from the Atlantean trilogy), despite never having the money to buy the other two books, which weren't
easy to find.  It had a great deal i homebrewed into one of my old campaigns. 

Sadly i don't have it anymore, along with other things i'm missing (such as the old James Bond RPG). 

The Arcanum was great.  The other two books are worth the effort to track down.  It's a real shame that system was not more popular and was not better supported.

Well... 6-editions of Talislanta, a second edition of the Atlantis trilogy (all of them superb in their own way), it wasn't for lack of trying. LOL

Quote from: tenbones on June 24, 2022, 10:39:35 AM

Quote from: I on June 24, 2022, 08:37:57 AM

Quote from: Sanson on November 19, 2021, 10:03:34 PM
I got a lot of mileage out of the old Arcanum book (from the Atlantean trilogy), despite never having the money to buy the other two books, which weren't
easy to find.  It had a great deal i homebrewed into one of my old campaigns. 

Sadly i don't have it anymore, along with other things i'm missing (such as the old James Bond RPG). 

The Arcanum was great.  The other two books are worth the effort to track down.  It's a real shame that system was not more popular and was not better supported.

Well... 6-editions of Talislanta, a second edition of the Atlantis trilogy (all of them superb in their own way), it wasn't for lack of trying. LOL

I owned most of the Talislanta stuff, and while it was good, I didn't like it as much as the Atlantean trilogy.  It was no substitute; it was its own thing.  I'd have preferred they just publish and support both.  Out of all the forgotten or failed RPGs, I regret the loss of the Atlantean system the most.

did you check out the Atlantis 2e game from Khepera Publishing?

Quote from: tenbones on June 24, 2022, 08:06:29 PM
did you check out the Atlantis 2e game from Khepera Publishing?

No, wasn't even aware of it.  I will, though.  Thanks.

Now you can read all the Forgotten Games posts on a single page: https://www.pigames.net/store/blog.php?tag=ForgottenGames

Likely a few repeats. But what the hey.

I wouldnt say High Colonies or especially Nightlife are forgotten at all. High Colonies has fallen to obscurity. But it gets brought up fairly regularly when discussing hard fiction settings. Which HC is for the most part. And Mechanoids is far from forgotten. People to this day continue to bug Kevin about properly reprinting this.

Nightlife is an odd one as about every other Vampire player has at the very least heard of it if not actually owns a copy.

Attack of the humans: Yup, another cover by Phil. Good to see he's still around. He did a piece in the comic my first RPG was based on and one of the example characters was based on that.

Dragonroar: How can this be forgotten when everyone on earth seems to remember the cassette tape and giant berserker hedgehogs?

World Tree: Have not seen that since was a playtester for it way the hell back.
The Tree if I recall right was loosely based on the Norse World Tree Yggdrasill. Which was populated by some talking animals among other unusual things. The Blooms were a pretty nice couple and put alot of effort into their setting.

Twilight Imperium: From back when FFG was still more a comic book distributor than a game company. Things were changing fast though. I remember when they first were starting and the TI board game was not even a thing yet. Still have some of their comics.

Ah IronWorld: Contender for THE most busy cover freaking ever!

Good to see LegendQuest is still kicking in some form. I've heard board gamers mention it more often than RPG players which may lend credence to it being a fair tactical game. Have not yet gotten to have a look myself. No one local has a copy.