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Another good if uncommon pick would be Tenra Bansho Zero, which is dark post-apocalyptic fantasy in a magitech version of feudal Japan...

One recent entry which I think hasn’t yet been mentioned is Cloudbreaker Alliance, a JRPG-style fantasy RPG which meets most of the...

It's difficult to determine whether Vampire was a response to the zeitgeist of the period and/or benefited from TSR's decline. But there...

Honestly that doesn’t seem to be the common usage - those are bar guns or soda guns, while if anything these days is called a soda...

Sword World RPG is being criminally underrated in the scope of it's influence here. Given that it's essentially the blueprint of the...

Are you kidding? Vampire made an appearance on the hit syndicated television show Real Stories of the Highway Patrol back around 1996...

Lots of companies spend a lot of money on marketing and don't achieve the kind of industry dominance that Hasbro has. I'm sure marketing...

There was a thread (or a couple of them) a year or two back about it, where we had some Twitter posts by people who had worked for both...

Dickens was pretty great (and very popular in America) and he was really significant in a whole bunch of ways, including being maybe the...

Or, you were correct.

Yes, certainly OtE and Risus. BoL a bit less so, because there aren’t really any player-defined traits (unless you count...

Into the Odd is a wonderful game. I'd completely recommend using it to base any project on if you like it.

I know Fudge well and it’s a good basis for Fate and similar games with player-created attributes such as Risus or Cartoon Action Hour...

I’ve seen and read a lot of these recently, and it’s interesting how modular and modifiable they are. But as I said in the title, I’m...

It’s really hard to know what games were most influential on subsequent RPG culture and design, partly because there’s also the...