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There's a warning about that... There's an undercurrent in AW, it's more explicit in DitV... "Every moment of play, roll dice or say...

You seem to think that resolving a player's move, in AW, is profoundly different from resolving a player's declared action, in D&D. I...

So Nolzur came out with these miniatures, and the comments are like you expect (mostly jokes on clerics healing themselves): For a...

Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...

Sure, but there are ways to take a lot of control out of GMs hands when it comes to fights. Random encounters is a bit one. I rolled...

Sure. I don't mind part of the process being an asymmetrical board game. If anything, "whole lot of talking and exploration, and half...

Ah, but due to the editing and developing of recent Shadowrun editions, familiarity with previous versions is pretty key to figuring out...

The one that sprung first to mind for me was Scion series of RPGs.

I'm not terribly familiar with Shadowrun (I've played some 5th edition and the computer games), but yes, this sounds about right. It...

For the record, I think it's worth it to separate "actual sequels" where the game and/or setting is fundamentally different from...

Right! It completely slipped my mind, but yes it fills the bill 100%

Things from the Flood? I think it's a sequel to Tales from the Loop with adolescents instead of kids.

I'd want at least some pre-memorization. If not tying specific slots to specific spells, then at least to magic schools.

To me, it seems that a RPG can have an opinion, or an intent, even though it doesn't set out to have one. I say this not to disagree...

I think a big enjoyment of generic or generic-ish systems is tuning them with a filer and finding your own meaning, and it being half a...