[PnP] Hello and a question

[Monster Jam]

I don't think a re-write or revising of Powers and
Perils necesarily has to fall to Richard's shoulders.
I re-wrote a Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying game on my
spare time and had a lot of fun doing it.  I've got a
friend who built a Transformers Roleplaying game from
the ground up.  We continually tweak the game here and
there using only MS Word as the platform for the game
text and take it with us in print and on the laptops.

The caveat is that we play these home-written games
when we are not playing D&D 3.5 (D&D comprises of 90%
of our gaming time).

It then begs the question: If I think Powers & Perils
has a superior combat and character build system, why
haven't I re-written THAT game system?  The answer is
two-fold...
1) Re-writing Powers & Perils would require a
significant amount of work, particularly in the magic
section.  In theory I like the way that magic is
resolved, but the spell selection, and results leave
something to be desired.  This section would have to
be built from the ground up.
2) D&D 3.5 is not an unplayable system.  It isn't
perfect, but off the shelf it isn't that bad. 
Moreover, my gaming group, shrinking as the years go
by, have invested literally hundereds of dollars in
WOTC expansion books.  To ask them to play a fantasy
game that will not utilize these books is very
difficult to do.

I'm not sure I want to invest the time to re-write a
game that my few players would not buy into.




--- Scott Adams <longshot at darktech.org> wrote:

> At 08:34 AM 8/2/06, Choinski, Burton wrote:
> >Given the fact the even the old warhorse AH is no
> longer alive
> >(bankrupt, sold out to parker brothers, dead),
> anything form that
> >quarter is unlikely.
> >
> >It's a tough environment.  A rewrite project today,
> with no assurance of
> >payoff for Richard in terms of being picked up and
> published, is hard to
> >justify for his time.  I would think nearly any of
> us would put in time
> >if he decided to rewrite a framework and then
> farmed out chunks to each
> >of us to develop and then return for discussion and
> polish.
> >
> >I'd love to see something out there then the damned
> d20 kudzu plague,
> >but it's tough for retailers.  A shop I have gone
> to for a while has a
> >WALL of games and system that primarily gather
> dust.  He can hardly
> >justify getting much in that is new, unless
> specifically asked for
> >and/or ordered simply because the market is so dead
> for stores.  Many
> >people are ordering online or are not doing
> boardgames/wargames/rpgs
> >anymore.  Like Scott said, only the big guns
> (GURPS, D20, White Wolf)
> >are doing OK, with others hanging on.  I see many
> one-shot ideas in that
> >game store (nice bound books, interesting concepts,
> complete POS systems
> >and mechanics).  And online MMRPGs don't help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Its ok to do pieces of Fan Filk/Fiction (whatever
> its called).  Supplements here and there.  Rule
> changes.  But to rewrite something as big as P&P is
> hard to justify like you said.  Ten years ago. 
> Maybe.  5 years ago.  Doubtful.  There are some
> independent game shops who publich.  A friend of
> mine in NC Capps Games for example.  But even teh
> computer game industry got slammed this week with a
> big shift in their convention - E3 with that
> convention being almost cut to shreds by news
> retailers will pull out.  So even the computer game
> industry is suffering these days.  Sad truly.  But
> at least rpgs lasted 40 years.  Computer games only
> 20 so far :)
> 
> 
> 
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