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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    Not quite in line with the rest of your post, but there's Tomorrow City (which happens to be on sale right now), and Age of Steel.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    Unfortunately, it does not. I could have been more explicit, but I meant playing as the fairy tale characters themselves.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    One premise I find lacking is for playing in a unified world of Fairy Tales in the vein of Fables, Shrek and Once Upon a Time. City of Mist sort of comes close, but it's not quite there.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    I suspect that's related to Frank Gruber's assertion that there's only 7 plots for westerns.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    But why male models?
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    Any news about Shadowrun Anarchy 2nd Ed?

    There's a thread for it on RPG.net where the lead designer has been providing additional info.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    This is a bit of a bugbear of mine, but the philosophy is "if it exists in D&D, it has a place in Eberron". That does not mean it exists in the same exact form as default/vanilla D&D, but rather it is made to fit the setting instead of a GM dismissing it outright.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I quite enjoyed when McNally opened a Master Lock with another Master Lock. Truly the tool every Rogue should have.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Unless this was changed for 2024, you absolutely can fail a stealth check. For 2014, Dex (stealth) checks setting the DC for Wis (perception) checks only applies when someone is actively looking for a sneaking character. If the potential observer is not being proactive, then their passive...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I have previously provided two, admittedly simplistic/undetailed, alternatives to a yelling cook. If there is genuine interest, I could be convinced to give examples of how I'd handle the full suite of tiered results.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what @Campbell said. Lacking the agenda of "make the characters' lives not boring" does not mean one has the opposite agenda. Similarly, the characters lives being not...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I'd say "no retries" can be as much about a presenting a certain narrative as it is about session pacing.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    You'll have to roll to find out.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    What? I've pointed out previously that there are people who view various PbtA games, including AW, as gamey because of the move structure. And, while I can't speak to MHRP specifically, Cortex is incredibly gamist with step up/down, buying off hitches, etc.
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