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My experience has been that the maps are unusably bad. Bullet points are often OK but pretty generic. It's usable, but it's nowhere near...

@Jfdlsjfd -- as a data professional with several decades of experience in this area, here are some suggestions on how to make your...

Well ... not quite. The transition from hunters-gatherer to farmer meant that land became valuable, so the optimal strategy for a...

TORG is fairly pulp-ish in its default mode (though perhaps it's more appropriate to call it "action movie"-oriented), but has the Nile...

Encourage your players (and you, for your NPCs) to think of the character as being played as a famous pulp character, or by a...

One suggestion is to emphasize at character creation that any attributes, descriptions, flaws or whatever are at pulp scale. Dale Arden...

For a resource closer to the real-world, I quite like the old PIRATES campaign book for Rolemaster. Has quite a lot of useful info and...

Yeah. If they don't have such terms, their own publishing can be paralyzed. Even if they never actually look at user-posted content...

The reason I prep and strongly prefer games run by people who prep is that when you invent something at the table, you have very limited...

Sorry, that wasn't intended. The contrast was meant between a rule that aims at simulation (which is fun) and a rule that is aimed...

Oh absolutely. I've played a lot of wargames, and from the perspective of a 70's player of games featuring combat, D&D is nothing like...

To be honest, I've never really believed him on that. I'm not sure he did either.

In an early post, I suggested that, for me, "modern mechanics" pretty much menat "mechanics not meant to simulate a reality". It is...

While your main point relates to success with complication as a main focus, I think it's worth noting that degrees of success rather...

The modernity comes from the innovation in these mechanisms. Yes, most mechanisms used today were born in the 19th century, but they've...