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Wow!!! That's pretty wild. 40K-75k words is 160-300 pages of notes according to standard words per page! Your entire campaign is ~1600...

I know of a prequel game system that fits the description. Young Centurions is meant to be a Fate Accelerated prequel for Spirit of the...

And playbooks are just the modern incarnation of classes.

So, upthread I mentioned that I don't think I think much about mechanics being modern or not, but that design might deserve that kind of...

Not even close. What you've got is basically GURPS with all it's glorious crunchy excesses. I refer you to this answer for what I...

Indeed not every game tries to force players into a narrow theme - but literally every game there ever was or will be does have a set of...

Speaking generally, the longer this thread goes on, the more I feel that the most distinctive defining feature of modern RPG design...

I haven't played the modern Tomb Raider games so I'm going to switch to James Bond as I know that subject better. And if a James Bond...

This is what I see as a huge difference between the Forge games of the 2000s and the post-Forge games of the 2010s (I count both Fate...

Hurm. So much of this depends on what I'm trying to do. If I'm trying for zero-to-hero, I'd probably go with Pathfinder 2e. If I want...

I think what's happened is that new ways of using mechanics have been found and refined, thus essentially creating new playstyles that...

I think this is perfectly true and valid. I don't think this thread should be about what is "better overall" or "better for everyone"...

@pemerton expressed my thoughts so well that what follows amounts to footnotes. Forge philosophy relies on intent but is also...

Spock was neither terribly spooky nor a psion. He wasn't all about the psionics with it being his primary thing. So it wasn't his class...

I think the fashion metaphor works fairly well here. If you are designing a game today, you have a whole bunch of history you can learn...