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There seems to be two pretty distinct groups of supers games these days. There are pretty firmly narrative games where the ‘power’ of a...

Savage Worlds is my favourite system. I would put it at a similar level of crunch to 5e, but it uses its crunch better in my opinion...

When 3e came out, I was probably a decade away from the last time I had played D&D (2e as it happens, through I had probably played more...

I once ran a short-lived Scanners game using GURPS back in the day. I used Psi World as a basis and built off from some of the concepts.

Here. I was here.

12 is also cleanly divisible by 3. For whatever that's worth.

The biggest issue I've seen is when someone wants to design a game, but has only played a handful of games, or even one. I'd say I've...

Tangent: while I enjoy the D&D ecosystem, HERO is my #1 RPG system. There’s no PC concept I’ve come up with I couldn’t model in it...

One of the starting options in Savage Rifts is a dragon hatchling… In general, this concept is only tricky in level-based systems where...

That’s an interesting point - didn’t Jeremy say he was working on a full campaign world? And we now know series 4 will feature a new...

That mechanism sounds very similar to how interpersonal scenes will be handled in The Broken Empires. I wonder if they are both drawing...

At this point, I would run TWO games. 1) Brennan running D&D 5.5 to maintain the Critical Role brand association with the 800lb...

I have a dedicated gaming room, so tend to host one of our groups, whether I am a player or the GM. In my other group one of the...

Actually that’s Blakes 7.

The wound system is in Invisible Sun. Assuming it works the same, you track damage (injuries) and three points of damage convert into a...