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So basically, BG3.

This is a Ship of Theseus type thing. Personally, I would use the ruleset to describe the game, qualified by the setting if it's non...

Disagree. I replayed them fairly recently. DA2 stands up fairly well, whereas I didn't complete Inquisition. Too much collect twenty...

Which were quite good, and attempted to actually use the tabletop rules to create a CRPG, rather than something in a different genre.

Star Wars is very unrealistic in terms of the scale of space (and planets). “Thousands of miles” wouldn’t get you out of the atmosphere...

I seem to recall Starfinder has separate ship and non-ship skills so PCs don’t have to choose between them.

FASA Star Trek did the best job (that I am aware of) of dividing ship combat roles between players, but was designed for three or four...

It’s not so much the time requirement - a constant stream of battles quickly gets boring. I’ve found that three per session is about the...

Putting time limits on adventures gets old real quick. Particularly when you typically have zero to three combat encounters per session...

Star Wars offers a good template for how to deal space travel. Once you are in hyperspace it’s very unlikely that you will encounter...

Except that they don’t, because there is nothing to prevent the party resting without trashing any narrative sense.

The DM (who is me) does not ensure the PCs always win, the rules do that. 5e combat is easy mode. Optimising characters is a waste of...

There is a section on Dark Fantasy in VGR. But I don't see why you would need alternate rules to do either.

I haven’t played the latest version, but it doesn’t look significantly different to the previous version, which I enjoyed playing.