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It’s a handy app. I never considered that the option for a custom background meant you could use it for drop tables.

This app lets you add custom backdrops if you upgrade to the Pro level (less than $5 by the look of it). Dice 3D You could create a backdrop with the tables and then roll dice against it. It is a physics engine so it will model where the dice go and any collisions between them.

If you want detailed rules for guns then there are a couple of short GURPS supplements that focus on that (Tactical Shooting, and Extreme Conditions). I find the trick with ultra-detailed combat is that is needs to be the exception rather than the rule. When I tried running Dungeon Fantasy for...

For sure. The missed opportunity in my mind is that WFRP 3e did something different and interesting mechanically but it was rejected by the audience and so no one seems to have had the courage to try it again. Complexity in games is cool where it is managed well and used for interesting things...

Looks like a community effort. Runequest / Mythras would probably be a natural choice for an Elder Scrolls TTRPG since before Skyrim percentages were quite prevalent IIRC.

WFRP 3e had this as a core mechanic. All abilities had cool down on them, and in the core experience* every ability was on a card. When you used an ability you put a number of tokens on it then at the start of every round you took a token off each of your cards, and could use them again one...

Just watched a live stream after the launch - the graphics were amazing on PS5 Pro I’m sorely tempted by this. Played ES 2, 3, 4 and 5 back in the day…

I would say we tend to play short campaigns in my regular group. We rotate GMs (and frequently will change system when we change GM) and a stint is often about 12-18 months, playing one Sunday per month for 10hrs a session. A canned campaign usually fits in that kind of window. I also really...

The more I think about this, the more I think a system like Nights Black Agents might be a great candidate for re-fluffing as inquisition agents. Skilled individuals, investigating conspiracy, and ultimately finding and facing-off against foes of weird power and great danger. Definitely sounds...

And clearly the reason for those discrepancies will be subversion by chaos or xenos which will need immediate resolution with prejudice to avoided further corruption or infestation. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? 🙂

We played a very successful inquisition based campaign years back - before any of the official 40k RPGs came out. In that campaign we were agents of the inquisition, rather than full-on inquisitors. That was great fun, and put us in a position where we were more like spies and investigators...

The things you describe kind of combine ‘keeping score’ and ‘player empowerment’ so you just need to think how such things would apply in this context. My immediate thought is rank since the Inquisition is a militaristic / religious organisation. Rank provides privilege, access to resources, it...

All the toolbox and genre-flexible systems will do that, with more or less work required. The trick IMO is to know what your default style is and mostly work from that one. For me personally I like action adventure which makes Savage Worlds my start position. You can tune up or down from...

GURPS Atomic Horror seems on the money. The genre in general is fairly pulp so I could probably run it with Savage Worlds, personally. Maybe leverage the Horror Companion for some additional focussed advantages or procedures.

Looking at the question of ‘what to start with’ specifically, my suggestion would be Savage Worlds: The rule book is easy to get and pretty concise by the standards of flexible systems It can be played in a fairly ’traditional’ way while offering tools for more scene-based resolution of...

I love flexible systems. In my mind there are maybe three or four groups. Toolkits are the most involved to get set up, typically they are a collection of rules and mechanics that you can use to build up a game to exactly match your desires. I put Fudge and Cortex Prime in that group...

Smallville, Leverage, Marvel Heroic, and Firefly are the big ones made with Cortex+. Unfortunately as they were IP based they are no longer available (not even in PDF). Its big strengths are completely customisable stats and skills (to put the focus on whatever you feel is key to a game...

Cortex is similar to Fudge in my opinion - it’s closer to a collection of mechanics and suggestions on how to use them than it is a game you could just sit down and run. It does require a lot more pre-work to get to the table than a genre flexible system such as Savage Worlds but it has some...

These are the kinds of ‘problems’ I like, personally. As @Thomas Shey comments there are different flavours and strengths and weaknesses built into flexible systems so the are not equally applicable to all scenarios. So talking about flexible systems and how they may apply to these more niche...