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Sounds like the makers of Outgunned should put in a pitch for the Tomb Raider IP.

These two are examples where the GURPS rules were integrated with the book, rather than just appending GURPS Lite to the end of it. A...

I'm interested in seeing what they do here but as one of those old guard I'm going to brace myself for thus being a "T&T in name only"...

As far as I can tell from the reports and writeups, the Rebellion game has nothing to do with T&T except the name. Stats are different...

So was Hackmaster, but people still loved it. T&T was more than a D&D knockoff, it took an entirely different approach to RPG design in...

There is, present in the examples in 5th, but not explicit as a rule, the idea that PCs should be describing their tactics, and the GM...

Exactly. GURPS did this with Transhunan Space, WWII, Hellboy, Dungeons Fantasy, Traveller (iirc), and a few others I dont recall atm.

They lost me the moment they stuck a woman with running blades on her legs on the cover. If they'd cared enough to spend five minutes...

That was my impression as well. Performative inclusivity at its finest. No thanks.

As a big GURPS fan I get your argument but when I look at this from a new gamer perspective just picking up Tomb Raider, if I were to...

It very much does. And the 4 Demonology spells in Path of Glory just whetted my appetite for what we can expect in the new BoM. I'm so...

I always thought of AD&D as being wargame inspired, that's pretty clear. But 4E's criticism was that it was heavily influenced by video...

I was very much a 2nd edition AD&D fan. I have fond memories of puzzling out 1E, then referring to B/X to solve mysteries such as...

I am so glad you linked that, I had assumed these were out of stock everywhere. Ordered!

As I couldn't get my players onboard for Forbidden campaign so I used Dragonbane to run a mash up campaign using the Raven Valley map...