The Dark Lonesome is now available! The book is now available as a PDF on Drive-thru RPG and as a PDF or a print preorder at the Independence Games webstore!

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Keep in mind that if you preorder a physical copy, you get the PDF at the time you preorder at no extra cost.

Welcome to Ariel Sector!

Ariel Sector, located to coreward of Clement Sector, is generally regarded to be an empty wilderness by those in Clement Sector. However, Ariel Sector has a variety of small settlements scattered throughout the sector which vary from mining colonies to pirate bases, from trading posts to scientific research stations.

Meet the waldläufers, independent explorers who feel the call of the wild or, as they say, "The Dark Lonesome" where they go to commune with the untamed nature of the worlds of Ariel Sector and escape the constant connection to other people. Encounter those on "The Liar's Trail" who are wanted for crimes in Clement Sector who have gone to Ariel Sector to hide from the authorities or start a new life. Discover the settlers that have left Clement Sector to find fortune in the mineral wealth of Ariel Sector and the scientists who have found evidence of previous alien life in the sector. Engage with the gunslingers who roam from settlement to settlement showing off how fast they are with a laser pistol.

Ariel Sector provides all the information to expand your Clement Sector game into nearby Ariel Sector with maps, random event tables, and details of what your characters may find in Ariel Sector all while leaving portions of the sector available for the Referee to imagine more possibilities. The book includes full details of some of the most interesting sites in Ariel Sector as well as career tracks for the waldläufers and gunslingers who make the sector their home. Here you can learn about the potential war brewing between New Perth and Minerva as well as the various legends which have sprung up about Ariel Sector, the Dark Lonesome.

Heed the call of the Dark Lonesome!

Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on May 07, 2024, 04:37:34 PM

Easy answer - fuck all, I game with adults not children.

A clear case of misgendering by WotC. For shame! They should educate themselves:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/misgendering-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters-202107232553[/url]

As Elmore says, when he paints a woman, there's never a question about her gender.

Next they'll be telling us Clyde Caldwell's figures are ambiguous.

Super7 had a different interpretation:

https://super7.com/collections/dungeons-dragons/products/dungeons-and-dragons-reaction-figures-wave-03-formidable-fighter

After getting into Torg Eternity and then backing out of it because for everything in it I liked I hated something else and ended up needing all the old books to flesh out the huge gaps in the setting anyway, I'm looking at Savage Worlds as my "I want to play Torg, but with a different system" go to.

I'm guessing netrunning in Savage Worlds is now seen as an archaic game mechanic and no longer worth having in a game?

"Chud-upsetting or not"

Oh I see. Insult anyone who thinks this is absolutely fucking stupid given the fact it's a male warrior and always has been. Can WotC do anything except piss off all the people who actually play D&D and aren't merely using it to pander to Marxist sycophants?

Larry Elmore disagrees, but what does he know about it?

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/05/08/wizards-of-the-coast-purposefully-and-clearly-gender-swaps-warrior-featured-on-dungeons-dragons-red-box-cover-art/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spot_im_redirect_source=pitc

Article here: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/character-mini-wizkids-red-box-warrior-female

It's a silly take to say, "This miniature reveals that the warrior on the Red Box was always a woman!"

As others have noted, the image on the Red Box can be interpreted as the same person in the blue, teal, black, and gold boxes. By the black box, we see the person's full-bearded face.

It probably would've been better to make two figures, one male and the other female.

Also, why are we not getting a miniature of the adventurers on the front of the Moldvay and Cook/Marsh boxes?

Thinking about it, the reason I've disconnected from most of the mainstream American entertainment industry is less about originality, and more about aesthetics.

I'll agree with JHKim that execution can, and often does, trump originality. But more importantly, the fact that something is using an existing IP doesn't mean it's entirely unoriginal. The 1999 The Mummy, which happens to be being rereleased to theaters this year, is one of my favorite films. Technically, it's a remake of the 1932 film, which I also really like, but the two are almost not similar at all.

My bigger problem with the recent products of both Hollywood and AAA videogaming is that everything is just so flat and ugly now. I'm not sure whether the culprit is the drive towards photorealism or the woke tendency to hate the concept of aesthetics, but (with a very few exceptions) nothing has any kind of style or glamour to it anymore.  The Marvel films are probably the obvious example, as they just get uglier and uglier over time, but you could also look at the insane aesthetic downgrade between Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films from 20 years ago and the Amazon show last year, despite the advancements in technology and comparable budget. The James Bond films were the standard-bearer for Hollywood style and glamour for decades, and then they let their aesthetics decay to the point where the Kingsman movies were able to come along and snatch their crown, and The list goes on and on.