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Not products you are waiting for, but stuff you dream of finding. Mine: 1) A good hardcore modern system in the style of Phoenix...

A GM exploiting plans with information the NPCs don't have is a very bad GM.

Heck, as GM sometimes the players come up with awesome ideas to get the job done that I didn't think of. I'm a fan of the PCs planning...

Well, don't take hours, and don't base a plan on perfect rolls.

Good way to lose PCs or even get a TPK at my table. The NPCs will have a plan, the quality of which is based on circumstance,

So don't build a plan where a single skill failure can wreck things. That seems very obvious.

Planning, like investigation, is the meat of the game. Working with finite time, limited information (dynamic lighting is a must), and...

Running a Fading Suns campaign using Zweihander/Dark Astral, and next will be Tribe 8 setting, Aces & Eights rules.

Excellent news! I use both, so that will be quite nice. I expect it will remain a Pro feature for GMing.

Yeah, Discord has been rock solid for me for years, even from countries without access to stable high-speed bandwidth. I prefer Google...

I've never had any problem getting the players to take downtime. There's research to be done, stuff to sell, stuff to buy, investments...

I let players choose their height, weight, hair color, eye color, hand dominant hand (not Ambi). Height & weight are used when PCs...

Yeah, WotC's good luck at the insane popularity of 5e has certainly bent the industry in their direction. Not a personal win for them...

And this is where I am, stuck in the middle with you. I realize not every player has my silver tongue and I don't want to punish them...

I was thinking on this reply, and this is not what I would consider a FLGS. Or a game store. When I envision a game store, it is a...