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Yeah, it's not that rare for there to be PDF-only Pathfinder 2E bundles on Humble Bundle (and now Fanatical, which currently has a PF2e bundle up). I haven't noticed any Starfinder 2E bundles yet, but there probably will be once the system is older and there's more official content available...

Eh. It even has stats in Delta Green; but, (1) even if you manage to destroy its corporeal form with, say, a Tomahawk cruise missile or GBU-12 bomb, you've bought a temporary reprieve, because it'll reform its body; and (2) you've probably already lost control of the situation in terms of...

That'll probably drive more people to wait for PDF bundles...

A lot of systems that have a broad set of skills could do this. It'd mostly be weird in something like D&D or Pathfinder where all player characters are expected to be in a specific mold, i.e. adventurers, and you'd have to go well out of your way to build something different (like, uh, you...

At a baseline, they're equivalent; but of course, there are systems (e.g. Eclipse Phase, at least in 2E; Mythras Imperative as well) that add quirks such as allowing one to spend a resource to swap the order of the digits. I haven't bothered looking to see if there's any simple, essentially...

shrug GM rolls for NPC offense, players roll for PC defense where applicable. GM rolling introduces a fair bit of variability and allows the GM to consider resource usage etc. as appropriate; for instance, allocating dice pools between multiple actions, attempting to augment a roll using a...

Sometimes, the math is trickier -- for dice pools with exploding dice, say. If you're playing original Shadowrun and looking at rolling 7d6 with a target number of 9 (c/o exploding d6) and trying to estimate the chances that you'll roll at least four successes -- that's a bit more complicated...

Skill thresholds for ordinary (sometimes for unusual) tasks aren't that uncommon in BRP-based systems. In Call of Cthulhu, for instance, it's assumed that pretty much any level of Drive Auto lets you handle normal driving (including normal vehicle mishaps) reliably; it's only meant to be tested...

Opposed rolls are probably more common than direct subtraction -- whether in terms of comparing degree of success such as how BRP-family systems tend to do it, or net successes in various die pool games such as Shadowrun -- but the current Runequest does use a skill subtraction method in a very...

BRP-style percentiles are very straightforward and allows degrees of success (e.g. CoC 7E having critical, extreme, hard and regular successes, in addition to regular failures and fumbles). They can be made a bit more complicated (e.g. Runequest in Glorantha's handling of percentiles...

The fact that official monster stat blocks tell you absolutely nothing about their weight, says a lot about how much you're supposed to consider their weight, in terms of game mechanics. You're meant to rely on T/S/M/L/H/G sizes; and should the party propose such things as piling corpses on...

There's red flags all over the place in my view. You had a fairly large party that seemingly had poor teamwork; for instance, it's not solely a caster's job to stabilize characters when anybody can use a healer's kit to do the job reliably and cheaply, in addition to administering the...

If you're particularly curious about Draw Steel mechanics, you could look at the Steel Compendium site ( Rules Index - Steel Compendium: Draw Steel Rules ). The Heroes book is under a rather generous license that permits the use of much of its text, although neither art nor layout. I'd agree...

Well, if they don't support WOTC's own EXODUS TTRPG at some point, that -- at least from glancing at the freely-available character sheet -- seems to be really based on the same core system, it'd be pretty goofy. I imagine that that one might actually get some promotion and support once the...

Balance would be the issue, but hey, it's not like D&D 5E subclasses are all that well-balanced anyway. Take it to an extreme, and you end up with a point-buy system where features have point costs, prerequisites, and probably mutual-exclusions. I have vague memories of GURPS being somewhere...