Battle Dress in the Imperium is complex and generally misunderstood. If you were designing Battle Dress and it didn't currently exist in the Third Imperium what capabilities would it have? Would there be integral weapons? Electronic Warfare? Would the exoskeleton add strength or just endurance? Inquiring minds want to know.
If you’re not interested in the product, that’s one thing but this isn’t something that they’re printing 5 million copies of. This is a prestige format book on a niche in industry. I personally paid upwards of $150 for a single history text, so I don’t know what you’re talking about. Not all books are the same.
Definitely NOT outrageous. $20 in 1982 is equivalent to $66 now. SOURCE. (The purchasing power of the US dollar is a third of what it was in 1982.) I have a copy of the book on my desk and it is incredibly well researched and printd and bound on good quality paper with excellent art in four colors. Look at Shannon's other work on RPG history and you will see some fantastic work.
VTM illustrates all of the pros and cons of the Storyteller milieu. It is still the game that people talk about, even more than WoD.
Shannon's work on game history is stellar. I ordered it immediately upon publication and it sits proudly on my coffee table.
I'd definitely study the evolution of the hobby using books like The Elusive Shift (Petersen), Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations (Deterding, Zagal) and Designers & Dragons: A History of the Roleplaying Game Industry (Appelcline). Once the students had a grounding in the history I would suggest a unit on Dice and Probability, the Mechanics and influence on settings.
Sorry, yes, terms are considered ten years IMTU.
Yes, 2013, 2020, and RED are. I am not certain about 3e as I wasn't a contributor.
Just curious, as a former 2020 freelancer I occasionally check in.
Why just RED? Why not a wider group?
genuinely overpriced.
I have never met a dice-pool mechanic I didn't dislike or despise. What makes your compelling?
What do you think are the most important things to have as auxiliary systems on battle draft?