Recent content by Committed Hero

It's difficult to determine whether Vampire was a response to the zeitgeist of the period and/or benefited from TSR's decline. But there is no question it belongs in the top 3. If you quibble about editions, include it in the World of Darkness. I also like to point out that whatever his...

Here are some generalities: In horror games, and especially one-shots, where the PCs are often in the wrong place at the wrong time, I would not expect them to be exceptional. In a superhero game where protecting one's identity is an important facet of play, I would expect their secret...

Some things I'd say could indicate success include a second edition, a release schedule that does (or did) publish things when expected, and third party support.

I understand that there are still events being added as well. I hope so, since one I signed up to run isn't there.

My mommy's a fishy broad [The Armitage Files].

I will die on the hill of "D&D needs its own turn undead subsystem."

I stole a code name from a friend's Dracula Dossier game to use for my own. HEARTBREAKER (the unknown woman from the novel whom Dracula turned) was too good a name not to steal.

I would say more than ten forms of raw materials is pushing it. What is your game about? The more technologically advanced the setting is, the more forms you probably need. I also infer, from the relative silence of this thread, that there are not many good examples. Probably because in most...

A couple of X of Cthulhu scenarios are set on subs. Part of the Innsmouth campaign and one from Pagan.

In my first time GMing after a long absence I set up a pretty awful railroad. The players came up with a tactic I totally failed to predict and I had no way to adapt to it. I tend to gravitate to rules systems that discourage it, now.

A format for materials that creates projects which streamline GM prep. That might help existing ones and entice new ones.

If a publisher has announced plans to make more material for a game but doesn't, that's like removing it from life support.

I second Savage Worlds as long as the group is OK with cards and dice.

In my case I had played last in the late 80s, and bought the FBBs around 2000. I didn't really game at all in that period.

Chalk me up with those nostalgic for Traveller. Although I think part of it was the release of the floppy black books. I would say about 15 or so years, at least.