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I was out of the country from 1991-1993, so I'm not sure, but when I came back, got back into gaming and stuff, World of Darkness was...

J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Solo, Indy, Deckard, Ryan

To the original point of the thread; most uses of Lovecraftian details in Lovecraftian gaming makes them feel like theme park...

Naturally. Given that the age of everyone is frozen, they have to be about late thirties to early 40s given the age of their kids. If...

The test drive analogy is exactly what reading basic, expert, and the modules that they originally came with is.

Everyone's saying start with Gaz1; I presume this is under the understanding that you've already got the Known World hexmap from the...

I can't wait to be disappointed.....again.

A little more grounded, but similar. Naming conventions; I mean, it's not like Greyhawk had great ones either. Verbobonc? Blibdoolpoolp...

If they're both fantasy games with similar basic setting assumptions, you probably don't need to adapt very much anyway. Just take the...

Always a worthy endeavor. In fact, that's a specific example I could have given too.

Yes, of course. I've done it many times. If they're very mechanical in nature, I'm much less likely to be interested, but modules...

To be clear, I am very happy with disentangling species from alignments and ability scores and away from inevitable references to...

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, what you are proposing is much more than a unique approach to psionics; that's a ground-up...

See, again, I liked how they did it in 3e, where psionics was very explicitly different than magic. It used focus and powerpoints, and...