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Regular cards or custom decks? 🙂 Regular perfectly fine with me. Custom decks are interesting as they also are basically a randomiser...

There are third parties who will print stuff for you to your design. It’s very cost effective. I had some custom tokens created to track...

Nothing, I was backing Thomas that Champion’s isn’t a physics emulator.

It really isn’t. The basic unit of value is 1d6 damage which has a standardised point cost, and pretty much everything flows from that...

I’m ok with them personally. They allow you to basically put a look-up table directly on the dice and, when used effectively, they speed...

Even Hero isn't trying for a physics emulation in any meaningful way; if it was the way Strength and damage steps operate wouldn't work...

Agreed. I lean process sim for the most part, and want my superpowers to have distinct mechanical effects. My favorites are TSR's MSH...

There are five Dungeon Fantasy bestiaries, and four Nordheim bestiaries. GURPS is pretty well served these days.

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...