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Is Shadowrun a D&D derivative? Not last time I looked. A lot of modern and futuristic games are more willing to have non-combat...

Yeah, well the X-card idea was first published in 2013, iirc. The breakthrough there may have been less the X-card itself, and more...

I’ve had arachnophobia come up a couple of times. It was not a major feature of the game and it was very clear what the issue was, so...

I suspect for some people, its start a new group and/or game. It might be anticlimactic, but you don't have to continue on with the...

How dare you, sir!

Yeah, but I bet you haven't previously had steak night after night, which is the equivalent to what some groups have done with D&D (i.e...

I have to admit I find your D&D experience bizarre. And to be clear I'm not blaming you, it is just not what I would expect - even with...

I suppose it's very group dependant. I was also thinking of the specific situation where the group REALLY wants to finish an adventure...

There's always variations here, though my experiences are closer to yours than to Ezekiel's.

Eh, there's nothing automatically that says that the first group of PCs is necessarily the only one. I commented myself there's some...

I will freely admit to skipping over most of the wall of text posts on this topic. Mostly because it has largely gone way over my head...

My initial reaction was Savage Worlds, but barring that I'll join the crowd suggesting Outgunned or Outgunned Adventures.

Outgunned is a slick modern day cinematic action rpg. It uses a d6 dice pool system where players are trying to get equal sets, rather...

Any games I played pre-2000's never had any official safety tools, it was all just assumed that certain subjects were taboo, and the one...

I just completed the 1-20 Blood Lords AP as an investigator. It worked extremely well.