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If I was remaking GURPS and keeping more-or-less the same structure, I'd start by combining a lot of skills. For one thing, any skill that's almost always used alongside another skill should just be the same skill – e.g. Electronics Operation (Medical) should just be part of rolls for Physician...

GURPS has separate skills for Artillery, Beam Weapons, Guns, Gunner, and Liquid Projector (flame throwers, sprayers, and such), with numerous mandatory specialties within each of these skills (e.g. Guns (Pistol), Guns (Rifle), Guns (SMG), and Guns (Shotgun) are all separate skills defaulting to...

Back in 2e (I think this was as early as Dragon Kings, but I could be misremembering and can't be hedgehogged to check), the notion was that at some point some kind of weird beings had created some kind of metaphysical connection between the elemental planes and the sorcerer-monarchs which was...

I don't know if I'd call it "unmatched". There are lots of universal games these days. Chief among them is probably Savage Worlds, but you also have FATE for those who like their rules light, Cypher System for those who like it light in another way, or Genesys for those who like funky dice...

I know that back in the 80s, there was a Swedish translation of Chill plus a few adventures and a sourcebook, called Chock. Recently, a new version of Chock using the same logo was released over here. As I was never a big fan of the original, I haven't kept up with info on it so I don't know if...

MCDM mentioned that they're printing Draw Steel both in the US and Italy. They didn't specify why, but I assume it's a tariff thing.

The issues with PF1 were much the same as the ones with 3.5e, so it makes sense that the solutions would have similarities in common but not be identical.

It's weird how clothes keep shrinking.

One of the things I always thought was weird about Dark Sun is how it's a desert setting named after the merciless sun beating down, and yet pretty much everyone looks very WASPy, with maybe a tan if they're lucky. The survival adaptions that lead to everyone having higher stats apparently...

But Mexico isn't part of the TIR convention, so it does not apply to goods going from Canada to Mexico. In North America, only Canada and the USA are signatories, which means the only use of it I can see is for goods traveling from Alaska to the lower 48 or vice versa.

TSR couldn't even keep lore straight within a single novel pentalogy. In The Verdant Passage we definitely see the halfling Nok and his assistants use preserving magic – it's presented as drawing power from nearby plants and all. We also see Nok go after Sadira in The Amber Enchantress, again...

TIR is for going from nation A through nations B, C, D, and E and deliver the goods to nation F without getting the authorities in B, C, D, and E involved. When you're just going from A to B without crossing any other nations (e.g. Canada to the USA and vice versa), it doesn't come into play...

Note that Dark Sun, as settings go, is really small. This is the approximate size of the original DS box set map superimposed on a map of the FR Sword Coast: The revised map is significantly larger, but still not quite the size of the region that has had FR fans complaining the last few years...