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The drill sergeant approach only works on wannabe soldiers. It’s sports coaches who try that approach who drive so many kids away from...

Read the discriptions. Yellow means rethink it, Red means “I hate it”. If you want a psion, but for it not to be a spellcaster then...

I think it was largely because there was a lot less fantasy available at the time. It was pretty terrible.

It's wild how popular Thomas Covenant was in the early 1980s. I would be shocked to find anyone under 40 years old who's read it.

The things are awful, the game is great. I don’t suppose it’s available these days. I remember using the “conversion” rules from this...

Awful Green Things is great.

It would be a thematic fit for a “world at war” type setting. It could also go with a Kingmaker style adventure.

10/10. Would not shoot.

I had Azanti High Lightning. Deck plans for a huge starship, plus X-Com style combat.

So vote yellow for the class and red for spellcastimg feature.

Both games have minimal rules compared to any version of D&D, and are more widely played. The main difference is chess is difficult to...

That’s not rules complexity, that’s gameplay complexity. Nevertheless, most modern versions of Monopoly are hugely simplified.

Come on! You can write the entirety of the rules of chess, including en passant, castling etc on two sides of A4, and no one has to stop...

Plenty of ideas just chucked out into this thread, if you made a thread asking for ideas you would get a whole heap more.

Except you can’t take more than one of those feats. Wild Talents are one offs, you can’t take one if you have one.