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While not wrong, if you start getting picky about the horror/SF divide, a number of movies become a problem including Alien.

Nothing says an SF movie can't also have supernatural elements, even big ones. After all, we have the end of Brainstorm.

Eh. By the time the game was in full swing, there were two kinds of PrCs: Setting-dedicated class add-ons, and...

Exactly. Unless people are actually playing the games, they're nothing more than expensive decorations collecting dust. If money is the...

I've mentioned this in other threads about GURPS, but as I recall GURPS 2e and original 3e had fairly reasonable lists of skills and...

Yep. My favourite GURPS magic system is houseruling and repurposing GURPS powers.

"One Step Beyond" didn't do much overt SF though; most of its stuff was supernatural-adjacent at least. It might have been reruns of...

Like I said, they can try to make the already extent ecosystem happier, or they can spend a lot of time and effort trying to push their...

Yeah, the premise of that was, more or less, "Join our interstellar society and its incorruptable robotic police force, because...

I think that you missed something in "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Aliens weren't helping us. They were threatening us because if we...

Doesn't sound familiar, but there are a few movies of the era I only know of by reputation. It especially gets bad when I know there...

They can be viable enough to make a living at them and still create a problem for people trying to get people to try playing them. The...

AT a certain point, a problem is a problem no matter why it occurs. I'd think you, of all people, would understand why in a hobby so...

At the very least it would require more end-user design work than probably makes any sense to expect. BESM did that with its skill...

Though they've at least moved away from the tendency early in the first edition to think the core magic system is an all purpose power...