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Shadowrun was cool in the 80s and 90s but suffered some severe problems with it's portrayal of Indigenous populations. I remember...

That's true, but I also figure that it can help with world building because sometimes the connections you have really help. It could...

From how you described it, it feels like Home, Common Species, Culture and to a lesser extent, History, would be the categories to spend...

The Avatar of Virtue, from the Ultima RPG series. Yes, they had a Paladin class there, but the Avatar fits the profile better, even if...

Coming in really late to this one, but how about: Nick Burkhardt from Grimm George from Alien Nation Steve Austin the Six Million...

Yeah, sort of falls into the "Build Your Own" like the suggestions for Savage Worlds or GURPS. Is there a "rules-lite" toolkit game...

One thing to keep in mind is there are long traditions everywhere for what is described above e.g. in wu xia novels and their...

Boot Hill was meant to be that sort of game. Never poked at it myself, though.

Yes, the implied setting isn't; my underlying thought for suggesting was it being a Borg (therefore light & modular), characters...

Frontier Scum is decidedly not in the realm of Western cinema the OP is referring to. It is an interesting game, though, as a...

Can you be specific about those codes and themes, rather than just reference entire bodies of work?

Brindelwood Bay. We are slowly uncovering the dark secrets that underly the sleepy town of Brindlewood Bay. That, or we're just having...

I ended my previous campaign earlier this year. It was a Anglo-Saxon / Viking historical campaign set in 11th century England using...

I got to play as an engineer in a small specialist squad of the Corps de genie during the Flanders Campaign of the War of Spanish...

Fading Suns Sci-Fi RPG. The setting is a bit like B5. The PCs have been initiated into a special sect of the Imperial Church to...