Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 26, 2024, 07:13:46 AMQuote from: BadApple on April 25, 2024, 10:59:04 PMAnd what about multimedia? Books, video games, cartoons?Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 25, 2024, 07:32:00 PMHas anyone made an alternative to BattleTech? I don't imagine that it's sustainable to not buy from the publisher anymore.
Are you talking rules sets or minis?
There are a LOT of TTWG rules sets that could make for a solid drop in for BT rules. Some could even be argued as being much better. With the advent of 3d printers, I think it's only a matter of time before This becomes the go to option.
As far as minis, there are several producers. There's even a company that still makes some of the old metal BT minis.
The only full package replacement for BT that I'm currently aware of is CAV by Talon Games. It's not as fleshed out as BT but it's a full one-stop shop for a mecha war game.
Quote from: BadApple on April 25, 2024, 10:59:04 PMAnd what about multimedia? Books, video games, cartoons?Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 25, 2024, 07:32:00 PMHas anyone made an alternative to BattleTech? I don't imagine that it's sustainable to not buy from the publisher anymore.
Are you talking rules sets or minis?
There are a LOT of TTWG rules sets that could make for a solid drop in for BT rules. Some could even be argued as being much better. With the advent of 3d printers, I think it's only a matter of time before This becomes the go to option.
As far as minis, there are several producers. There's even a company that still makes some of the old metal BT minis.
The only full package replacement for BT that I'm currently aware of is CAV by Talon Games. It's not as fleshed out as BT but it's a full one-stop shop for a mecha war game.
Quote from: Wrath of God on April 25, 2024, 04:24:04 AMFor sheer curiosity I propose adding to list The Veil by SJK Publishing.
Quote from: Omega on April 25, 2024, 10:56:26 PMQuote from: Trond on April 24, 2024, 04:12:18 PMTo answer the original question, no, Tolkien was not to the detriment of the hobby. I agree with those who say that wokeists would insert themselves no matter what. Say, if elves were simply handled as spirits by Tolkien, and we used that in gaming, they would complain about why we don't have more African spirits or some such.
Pretty much this. Remember. There is no limit at all that the woke can not hallucinate some utterly insane excuse for.
"Goblins are red. That means they re really Native Americans! And that means when you are killing goblins you are promoting real world GENOCIDE!!!"
Quote from: Brad on February 13, 2024, 12:07:20 PMSee what you do is make a beer commercial with a tranny in it, even though 99% of your customer base is a bunch of rednecks and Catholics, then wonder why your company tanks. This just reminds me of the JRRT "superfans" who made videos on Youtube to push the Amazon Rings of Power and it was obvious they had no clue wtf they were even talking about. The only requirement for being a "superfan" was apparently having blue hair and writing a blog post about how LotR is misogynistic because you discovered it has like two female characters after you hatewatched half of the Peter Jackson movies.
Quote from: Omega on April 25, 2024, 11:27:11 PMQuote from: JeremyR on April 19, 2024, 04:16:40 PMB/X was the one that literally came with its own setting . And yeah, it was meant to be more user friendly since it was aimed at children.
If you think BX was aimed at children then you really dont know much about BX then.
Quote from: Omega on April 25, 2024, 11:24:30 PMPolymorph was a great insta-kill spell in AD&D.
Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on April 25, 2024, 06:39:27 PMQuote from: BadApple on April 25, 2024, 02:28:20 PMTake a look at what is going on with Battletech with their community rep and the player base. In short, the player base has had it with Catalyst Game Labs and have started to boycott buying new BT stuff.
Catalyst (the heirs to FASA) gets what it deserves in my opinion. Their sanctimonious attitude and their empowering those fuckers are Piranha to backdoor steal the Macross designs again has been detrimental to Robotech's brand for almost 40 years now, so fuck them.