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I prefer my sci-fi this way. Unless the campaign really focuses on the ship itself, like Firefly, then I'd much rather have space travel be a thing that happens rather than a thing the characters do.

This looks fantastic. From the original piece you showed, I assumed the aliens would be Lovecraft inspired (which would fit well in the 1920s anyway).

I backed it as well, though I still don't care for Fate all that much. And I find the palette a little bit pastel for my grimdark liking. That said, I enjoyed the novel that came out last year and I do love a good far future fantasy setting.

I'd like to see something set in the world of Gemmel's Drenai saga. It'd be kind of hard to pick a timeframe to settle on though. Waylander was far and away my favorite character, so I'd prefer that era, which is of course before even Druss.

"This massive standalone tome will be based on the Fate Core engine" I've been anxiously awaiting this game for several years. Now I'm somewhat disappointed. I'm really not a fan of Fate, but I'll hold out to see what modifications have been made. She mentions in the G+ group that even the basic dice mechanic is different.

Interesting bit of trivia: the short-lived Dune RPG was worked on by Youtube celebrity Matt Colville. He has a link to some rough, unpublished material from the d20 version they were working on in an old blog post of his: http://squaremans.com/the-dune-rpg/

Interestingly, Ulisses Spiele (or rather their North America subsidiary) currently has the license for both of those (40k and Fading Suns) and is working on new versions of both. 40k is set to release in the next couple of months. FS looks a bit further off, but they've actually been working on it longer.

I think there is a dearth of Old West games (American Old West). Now, there are plenty of "Weird West" games. Pinnacle pretty much has that market cornered with Deadlands, and even Chaosium has some "Weird West" supplements for BRP (and CoC I think as well). But as far as just straight "Westerns" goes, the market is pretty sparse. Now, maybe people just don't want them and that's why they don't exist, but I personally have fond memories of old Boot Hill games from my youth.

Highlander 2 was so memorably bad that to this day, any time I hear about a sequel, be it "Ghostbusters 2" or "Spiderman 2" or whatever, I mentally add "The Quickening" to the end of it.

Isn't that Mythic Britain, from The Design Mechanism?

The last I'd heard was that Modiphius was going to publish it, but it's been "in the works" for a couple years now already (as indicated on this page). I know she just published another game via Modiphius (Capharnaum) and of course they also publish Mindjammer.

Dune.

If this setting has the same attention to detail that Harlem Unbound has, I'm already sold.

I wish I could remember offhand. I know it was talked about some in the recent novel set in Future Earth: The Worm Within.

And it just got put up on Bundle of Holding. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DeltaGreen2

It's a bit pricey. 30 USD, and that's marked down. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/225230/Delta-Green-Handlers-Guide

If I had to guess (and a guess is all it is) I'd say about 60 USD. That seems to be the going rate for hardcover, full-game books. If it's split between player and GM guides, they might be more in the 45 USD range.

Fantastic news there. I always prefer this kind of introduction to simply spelling out dice rolls, etc.

Not Chaosium, but they're licensed settings and require the CoC core rules, so I hope it's OK to post here. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/WorldWarCthulhu https://bundleofholding.com/presents/CthulhuBritannica2017

I backed this one early on as I love their Coriolis game (the setting at least). Their particular dice pool mechanic is too streaky for my taste (only counting successes on a 6 on d6), but I'm keen to see what they do to adapt it to this setting.

Exhaustion could work. Though "exhaustion" sounds better if you're accumulating points rather than depleting them. But I've used "exhaustion" before to describe to new players the concept of hit points. Because frankly even "hit points" suffers from being confused with a measure of pure bodily health, which it really isn't (even in D&D).

There is a film (currently available on Netflix) called Centurion. It's set in Roman-era (obviously) Britain and is very much an action film. It isn't highly rated on Imdb, but I enjoyed it quite a bit for what it was.

Sadly, it seems someone beat you to it.

I spent 5 years in the army, and while I have no particular pride associated with that, it bugs the crap out of me when military matters are misrepresented in fiction. And they are misrepresented about 99.99% of the time. Still, if I let that alter my enjoyment of the game/tv show/movie/book/whatever, I'd have very little available that I could enjoy. For instance: the various entries in the Stargate franchise all present a borderline absurd representation of military matters (in some cases they cross that border into the thoroughly absurd), but I still love those shows. You see, they aren't about the military. Likewise, unless your rpg campaign is actually centered around the players designing power plants for space craft, all of that is irrelevant to the story.

Someone posted a report from the front lines after talking to C7 at Gencon. The setting will be the Enemy Within era.