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I'm an old fan of The Fantasy Trip. I made (unsuccessful) attempts to incorporate Melee and Wizard in my games prior to ITL coming out...

Ars Magica has, hands down, the best magic system in an rpg for me. It also assumes that wizards are usually at the top of the heap...

Confidence I think more than everything else. Plus as you say, familiarity means that you can really enjoy the details and allow the...

Ok, so I will present two options. If you play on Foundry then you should absolutely go with 4th edition WFRP released by Cubicle 7. It...

Just to mention Dragon Warriors - not as big as WFRP or Pendragon, but still interesting and still around. I didn’t play it back in the...

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!" I'm certainly not one to quibble too much on definitions, but I'd have...

If it makes you feel better, it does a really fantastic job at both? Gameplay wise, it manages to capture a very 5E feel and dynamic...

I love Metrophage with an unseemly love, even as I recognize its flaws. I apparently startled Kadrey on Facebook in the late ‘00s or...

I finished reading Sterling's Schismatrix. It was good sci-fi, but I wouldn't necessarily classify it as cyberpunk. Now I'm reading...

The note that DIE is less about RPGs than it is about trauma is pretty darned relevant.

Just finished Samuel Arbesman's The Magic of Code. Arbesman is an engaging and enthusiastic writer, but the book felt somewhat...

Agreed on basically all counts. Like with Moorcock's Elric stories, IMO the best way to go with these is publication/real-world...

No, it’s its own thing. It’s a different twenty-first century, and a different historical milieu.

Is this related to SM Stirling's Nantucket series?