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I wrote my thoughts about 3.x in this thread back in 2020 and they've withstood the test of time. I wanted to just add a little bit of...

Well, that's just being mechanically cautious; there's nothing wrong with that. I just think there's no reason to intrinsically go...

All true enough, but when you're defining what you consider a Golden Age, problem areas are going to be part of why you do or don't...

Gonna be a long stressful weekend. Company laying off 1000 people next week.

-- "I dont like pretty much anything about this thing. Change it so I like it, so that I can like this thing." Never going to fly...

You'd be surprised. Concussion blasts trail off pretty fast. An old demo stunt was to put on a helmet, then set off a concussion...

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...