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The latest live stream went over the basic rules:

Right you are. Quack Tales in Action Flicks Vol. 2.

Broken Compass, which was designed for Tomb Raider/Uncharted style adventure, has a supplement, What If, that contains a chapter for playing as animals in the vein of Babe, The Jungle Book, etc. and another for playing as cartoons. Should be easy enough to put them together for playing a Duck...

Twilight Sword sees your Duck Assassin, and raises you a Mallard Mage:

Move over, Dragonbane!

In one of their streams, it was mentioned you can use your own maps, so that specific map of Radia is not needed, but the impression I got is a map of some kind is rather integral to the exploration focus part of the system, if your concern is more about theatre of the mind play. The books are...

I try to play a variety of things so as to not typecast myself and stretch the roleplay muscles, but I'll admit I'm always drawn to the spooky options (edge optional). Necromancer, warlock, death knight, occultist; if it deals with the supernatural or dark forces, I'm a sucker for it...

Based on a quick glance at my collection: Arkham Horror/Call of Cthulhu: Mostly investigatory. Combat isn't non-existent, but it shouldn't be a desirable option. City of Mist/Hard City/A Dirty World: All focus on noir investigation, but fisticuffs are a possibility, so probably falls foul of...

There is an Old Jungle Saying: “To see the Phantom is a blessing; to oppose him is a curse.”

No opinions on the article itself, but I really like that artwork. The dingy duochrome palette evokes certain grime-covered Renaissance pieces.

Comparing it to my pre-launch speculation, I was a bit hit-and-miss.

Hence my stating it wasn't strictly true. The only extraordinary thing about Indiana is his stubborn refusal to acknowledge anything close to magical despite all he's seen. When I say "ordinary", I mean people without super powers, magical abilities and the like. Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon...

I vastly prefer the hunger dice to the blood pool, and like Blood Potency as a way of mechanically distinguishing between age and generation. I kinda agree about V:TM's clans insofar as I think the secondary 6 were unnecessary (not to mention the racist elements), but I couldn't gel with V:TR's...

This isn't strictly true when looking at the old pulp serials, but for me, the core of what makes a good pulp story can be summed up as "ordinary people in extraordinary situations." So I try to keep that in mind for pulp games.

Depending on what elements you like (and if you can bring yourself to give it a look), V5 might very well be up your alley. It keeps the setting and clans, etc of V:TM, but de-emphasises the metaplot by making it rumour and conjecture (V:TM always used unreliable narrators, but it's more...