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I'm a big fan of Rolemaster 2 using the MERP sourcebooks and maps. I've run it a couple of times, never longer than 12 sessions but that...

This is my answer as well. I had planned on running a GURPS fantasy game, but then other factors arose, leading me to... I am...

Not an RPG but definitely RPG-adjacent, the Lone Wolf: Vengeance of the Kai board game is in its last three days currently. It’s 230%...

For me this would say GURPS, full on rather than ‘just’ Dungeon Fantasy but pulling heavily from those assets for inspiration on the...

You are describing one game that has little in the way of modern design because of D&D tradition. And even then, your description of the...

How many midichlorians to the force point? :P

More data points definitely needed to fully understand YZE 🙂

I think this is really hard to nail down, however on reflection I think modern games are more intentional in design and leverage better...

It sounds to me that you players have a fundamental disconnect with the type of game you are trying to run. I can understand your...

I would describe YZE as a ‘house system’ model where a system is modified for different applications while retaining some shared...

Like several posters already, I follow an iterative process - do enough top level prep to provide a ‘helicopter view’ of the campaign as...

That’s probably fair. Meta currencies, things like the Doom pool from Cortex and so on, the escalation dice from 13th Age, are all...

I’m not the person you are asking, but I do have Draw Steel. The only particularly ‘modern’ element in my opinion is the use of an...

For sure, it’s a more realistic game in many ways - charging that machine gun nest is truly heroic! Though when highly skilled...

I don’t think that @Reynard was commenting on games being played, I think it was more about new games being made. There are definitely...