tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post8813479311487911235..comments2024-03-29T07:58:31.156-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Different Worlds: Issue #18James Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-52606252493565639812021-06-09T16:57:57.312-04:002021-06-09T16:57:57.312-04:00Point taken. I will send an e-mail to info@diffwo...Point taken. I will send an e-mail to info@diffworlds.com regardless.<br /><br />I wonder why he doesn’t sell PDFs of at least the out-of-stock issues on DriveThruRPG or some such.Bonnaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667671409170609819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-57897000457608752452021-06-09T10:38:59.614-04:002021-06-09T10:38:59.614-04:00Trying to get illegal PDFs down is a big challenge...Trying to get illegal PDFs down is a big challenge, what we can do as fans is NOT post links and consider carefully when we hint something is available.<br /><br />http://www.diffworlds.com/ is an active website by Tadashi Ehara (and he still has many back issues).<br /><br />I think archive.org tries to legitimize itself as a "library", I don't know how solid their claim is (their wayback machine also provides technical copyright violations but I don't see any but the most adamant copyright holder going after them for that part of the site).Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855679156477779666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-76636379035590640842021-06-09T05:24:49.083-04:002021-06-09T05:24:49.083-04:00That's terrific. I never even saw, let alone p...That's terrific. I never even saw, let alone played, the Heritage game at the time of its publication, so it's good to hear that you got good use out of it.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-33081120447576396882021-06-09T02:52:17.833-04:002021-06-09T02:52:17.833-04:00Who owns the copyright now? They should be notifi...Who owns the copyright now? They should be notified so they can take action if they want.Bonnaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667671409170609819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-30235651965773779382021-06-09T00:31:09.728-04:002021-06-09T00:31:09.728-04:00The “Beyond the Final Frontier” article has been h...The “Beyond the Final Frontier” article has been hugely influential for me. It is essentially the Players Handbook for my Star Trek game. It really hits the sweet spot, fleshing out STAGFF just where it needs it. The resulting ruleset is very playable, and surprisingly similar to what FASA came up with, albeit a degree less crunchy across the board.Falconerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00474925985191663745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-22596114767167219402021-06-08T21:29:12.134-04:002021-06-08T21:29:12.134-04:00Mostly not. There may be done things that have gon...Mostly not. There may be done things that have gone public domain but Different Worlds is not one of them. grodog at one point was working on getting these out. Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855679156477779666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-12226009146551543672021-06-08T15:29:29.487-04:002021-06-08T15:29:29.487-04:00This issue and some others are in the Internet Arc...This issue and some others are in the Internet Archive:<br /><br />https://archive.org/details/DifferentWorlds02_201801/Different-Worlds-18/mode/2up<br /><br />I do wonder whether this is legit; I suspect not.Bonnaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667671409170609819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-90248950912470630602021-06-08T14:54:19.172-04:002021-06-08T14:54:19.172-04:00I think you mischaracterize Stafford’s review of F...I think you mischaracterize Stafford’s review of FW: he praises the historical content, decries that it falsely advertises its accessibility to beginners, and otherwise discusses the rules not at all.Bonnaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667671409170609819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-32031695356405491852021-06-08T13:11:47.988-04:002021-06-08T13:11:47.988-04:00I'd like to know more about the chronograph id...I'd like to know more about the chronograph idea and how it works!thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-60726153368833591502021-06-08T12:19:04.834-04:002021-06-08T12:19:04.834-04:00Another one I missed back in the day, which I thin...Another one I missed back in the day, which I think I regret since it sounds right up my alley. Snazzy cover there, young me would have bought it in a heartbeat.<br /><br />Steve and Howard were feuding over the rights to Ogre, GEV and the as-yet unreleased One Page Bulge, all of which had been bought by Steve as part of The Space Gamer purchase when he left the company (in 1980 IIRC). That and other legal issues may have led to Howard starting up the "Games Research Group" which appeared to be some kind of shell company, possibly intended to confuse rights issues to other games. The name showed up on the last few Metagaming releases in 1982, and the company was shut down the year after.<br /><br />I think Gigi was a bit premature, I recall 1984 being a bigger year for gaming than 83...but it was a long while back, so maybe I'm wrong.<br />Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-62142908801926898662021-06-08T10:44:36.215-04:002021-06-08T10:44:36.215-04:00On John T. Sapienza's articles, in the APA rea...On John T. Sapienza's articles, in the APA realm he became known as John T. (Tables) Sapienza... Note that he is a professional lawyer... A really good chap overall though...<br /><br />And he did give me some good advice on running RQ when we crossed paths at a convention, he suggested that rather than counting strike ranks one by one asking if anyone had an action, to collect what SR folks were doing stuff on. Or something like that... Advice I immediately took to heart and have run SRs that way ever since (which is why I'm not exactly sure how I ran it before).Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855679156477779666noreply@blogger.com