THE RELIEF!

Quote from: Pierce InverarityI don't like Star Wars.

Irrelevant.

I have the WEG Men In Black RPG.

Not sure why, but I have it.

Quote from: Pierce InverarityI don't like Star Wars.

Quote from: The Red QueenOff With His Head!!

Heretic. I knew there was a reason why I didn't like you.









Do I really need to put in a disclaimer that this is a joke?

Quote from: Zachary The FirstPerhaps their "Holy Grail" is the Traveller 5 core rules, which I've heard they might be publishing for Far Future (only the core rules, mind).

Now that would be interesting...

Quote from: RedFoxI have the WEG Men In Black RPG.

Not sure why, but I have it.

Join the club.

Well, it did only cost about £3.50 at the time. But even so...

Oh, and if you don't like Star Wars, Pierce try the Ghostbusters game (if you can find it). It's way cool. Especially the equipment cards ("Beach kit - triples fun at beach").

Quote from: CaudexJoin the club.

Well, it did only cost about £3.50 at the time. But even so...

Oh, and if you don't like Star Wars, Pierce try the Ghostbusters game (if you can find it). It's way cool. Especially the equipment cards ("Beach kit - triples fun at beach").

I got mine cheap, because the cover was torn and it had been on the shelf at B&N for at least a year or more.  One of these days I might even play it, provided the storage unit that houses it at present doesn't get auctioned off for lack of payment.  It's not my favorite version of D6, Star Wars is still king there.  But it has some potential.

Stupid licenses? *coughcoughlawnmowermantherpgcoughcough*

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!In the mid-90s, WEG was chasing licenses like a hondog fulla Spanish Fly.

It...sorta...didn't...pay off.

Ah, gotcha. I didn't make the connection. I thought you were pulling what is known in the trade as an 'Erik gambit'. Posting pictures for the sake of it. :haw:

Quote from: jeff37923Now that would be interesting...

I think so, too.  That's the latest scuttlebutt, anyhow...

Quote from: Zachary The FirstI think so, too.  That's the latest scuttlebutt, anyhow...

Heh.  I mentioned this in the other thread about the "holy grail", and I was just pulling stuff out of thin air.  

Could be cool to see a new edition with a real solid marketing push behind it, but frankly I don't trust Mongoose to do a good job of it, so even if it is true than it's in talks, I hope they find someone else.

Mongoose is too shovelware, and I really would want to see that done right and well.

While we're talking WEG RPGs, why not mention Paranoia? It's the best non-licenced RPG they ever made (if you ignore the misguided Crash Course Manual and everything they published after it).

On the other hand, Mongoose's new version of Paranoia is the best version to date, simply because it acknowledges that different groups will want different things out of the game - some want fast-paced zapping while others will want slow deadly politicing with a satirical theme.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstPerhaps their "Holy Grail" is the Traveller 5 core rules, which I've heard they might be publishing for Far Future (only the core rules, mind).

I think that's unlikely. Towards the end of the other recent thread on this subject, Quire pointed out that Matt had said this about the Grail when asked whether it would be a D20 or Runequest product:

Quote from: Matt SprangeWe haven't made any decisions about that yet, and there are arguments for both RQ and D20. However, we'll likely take the third option.

If it were Traveller5 we were talking about, there wouldn't be any question of using D20 or RQ. I can't see Marc Miller just junking the rules set he's designed for Traveller5 just so that Mongoose would publish it, and there's already a D20 version of Traveller out there.

I wouldn't discount the idea that Mongoose will enter a publishing deal with Far Future to print and distribute Traveller5 (they can sink far more capital into the project than Far Future can), but it's not the Holy Grail. Maybe it would qualify as a Grail back in its late 1970s/early 1980s heydey, but I'm left with the strong impression that bad handling by GDW (Traveller: the New Era ring any bells, folks?) and the failure of Traveller4 has left Traveller with a much-depleted share of the market.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstI think so, too.  That's the latest scuttlebutt, anyhow...

If they have the same distributor as when the Starship Troopers miniatures game came out, they are fucked. That distributor was Gameboard, under the guise of Knoxville Fulfillment Company - the same ones who pissed off Green Ronin and Margaret Weiss Productions with crappy customer service.

And don't call me Shirley!

-clash