Quick Look Palladium Fantasy 1st ed – Book 3 Adventures on the High Seas
Alternity (An exercise in early web support)
When Alternity was first released the Player’s Handbook came with a free adventure called Black Starfall. This adventure introduced the StarDrive setting and at the end of the adventure there was a distress call. TSR (soon to be WotC) released an audio file of that distress call on their web site. Here is that old .wav file.
The Externals (when Wizards tried to make a truly next Generation RPG product)
Back during the early days of D&D 3rd edition WocT did experiment with digital RPG materials for their Alternity line of RPGs. The biggest of these experiments was the last product released for the line The Externals which introduced the start of a major war in the StarDrive setting. This product had a PDF of the book, a stardrive calculator to determine how many jumps it would take to go from any system in the Verge to another, and a browsable version of the book.
This browser based book was launched using Flashplayer which then launched your web browser and using flash allowed you to navigate to book as it was a web site. Sadly the browser part is no longer useable because it requires Flash but this video is how the launcher opened.
Episode 39 – Alternity
In this episode we talk about the last great game released by TSR in 98 and the abomination that was kickstarted in 2017.
Episode 38 – Year end 2020
We will be back Feb. 2021, until then Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year.
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Episode 37 – An Overview of Shadowrun
We do a basic overview of Shadowrun editions released to this point.