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Yeah... Character generation focus is a 4th generation 2000s thing! Certainly not the focus of AD&D 2e's Complete series of: Book of...

What style is Raven Gothic Horror Roleplaying in? What genre was Nexus: The Infinite City? Believe me, I can very much continue if no...

Its fairly easy Name 3 RPGs of a similar genre with similar lore or mechanics.

The genre are recognizable. The games identified with them aren't (Except for Urban which I ID WOD with first with Dark due to the...

You have to draw the line somewhere in how much splitting you're going to do when talking about playstyles; otherwise yuu need distinct...

After coffee I realized that. Then name them. That's likely why there lack a wave. They don't instantly invoke attachments to any genre.

This is a talk about generations. You don't get a generation of you aren't popular and impact the FRPG community.

Meaning there hasn't been a time where FRPG design for those genres has been very popular or captured the zeitgeist of game design...

Maybe we should use fantasy genres with attachable aspects that the game was designed and published around over debatable terms not tied...

Something quick I jotted during the train ride. X is CR. Aasimar Bonus Action Aasimar Touch (X/day). The aasimar heals 2d4 Hit Point...

Start to 1983: Treasure hunting Simulation 1984-1990: Heroic Adventure Simulation 1990-1999: Setting Emulation 2000-2019: PC based...

Poison resistance and Rerolling 1s are too rarely impactful on the monster side.

One thing I loved about 4e is it gave almost every race a racial power as a PC feature and the damage calculation of monsters per level...

I think the more salient points are (1) while too many rules almost guarantees that a game will be harder to GM, "too many" is a vague...

Many rules means the DM has to learn a lot. Few rules means the DM has to be more in sync with the players. Knowing a lot of rules...