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Re: Campaign: The Turakian Age (Delurking for a bit) I think I'm going to like Tanaka.

Re: Firefly I agree. I'd have a much harder time suspending disbelief if the show were in just one system. From the way they talk about colonies on moons, however, it does give me the feeling that the Alliance likes to colonize around gas giants -- perhaps to mine them for fuel?

I was a freelance writer for Hogshead*. The game line was actually quite profitable for the company: The money from it allowed James to put out less "commercial" but critically well-received pieces like Baron Munchausen and Nobilis. The truth is, after several years of running the place almost all by himself, he was burnt-out and wanted to sell the company. GW wouldn't allow a transfer of the license to another company, so he returned it to them (from what I heard, *they* were surprised) and sold the firm to the new owners. And, to be fair to GW, in all the years we dealt with them, they were generally reasonable and easy to get along with. The only complaint that I know of was that they could be rather slow on approvals, which can happen when a tiny company deals with a relatively huge one. *(Sounds like a title from an old film noir movie. ) As for the game's future, the most likely speculation has GW eventually re-releasing it through their "Black Library," but I don't know anything definite about it.. Anyway, I'll be interested to see how a Hero version of it looks.

It's not worth it, except maybe as a collector's item for completists. It's by far the weakest of the series. James had an outline for rewriting it as "Empire in Chaos," but he decided to return the license and sell the company before it was finished. (Losing the outline and notes to a harddrive crash didn't help, either.) Also, getting Realms of Sorcery and the Dwarf book out took precedence. It definitely wasn't because we "took too long."

Snotlings rule! I'll look forward to seeing this. I'm an old-time fan of WFRP and I'd like to see how Hero can be adapted to its gritty, low personal magic feel.

There's a bit of recent news about a possible Firefly movie here: Firefly Movie Gossip .

I haven't listened to the commentary, yet, but my impression is that this takes place over an inhabited region of several star systems -- leastways, being in one system would seem awfully cramped to me. But, I can certainly the other point of view, too. I loved the show, even more now that I have the DVDs and can see the series in the order it was meant to be seen. Curse Fox to the deepest, darkest pits of Hades for mishandling and then cancelling it. And I can easily see this as a Heroic-level Star Hero game.

Re: Worst. Swords and Sorcery. Ever. The worst I've read would either be Harry Turtledove's very early novels under the name "Eric Iverson" (as I recall), or Gary Gygax's "Gord the Rogue" series. Both were awful beyond words.

Re: Western Shores Resources Try this search: Click for Western Shores hope this helps,

Might be interesting to have spells cost COM: you grow uglier with each spell you cast.