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If you liked Bushido, give Sengoku a try. It's a shame Gold Rush Games went out business. I guess I should put Sengoku on my "resurrection" list :) My only complaint is it used the Fuzion system. IIRC, a lot of the research was done by a Japanese lady doing research for a thesis in school...

Possibly conflating it with Sengoku, as I played more of that than Bushido. To be honest, the Aftermath/Bushido/Daredevil game system was a kind of a mess to learn which is why I would like to see it cleaned up. Also Sengoku had amazing research done on it, especially for the Shinobi. I don't...

Twilight 2000? :)

Ah yeah Spirit of the Century was pretty cool...though FATE is a bit odd for me. I like Victoriana a lot, although it borders on being more Edwardian than Victorian. But, it still centers around the fantastical (elves, beastmen, magic, etc). I found a couple of very niche games on DTRPG and a...

There probably are a ton on DTRPG, but what kind of exposure do they get and popularity do they have? I just checked DTRPG now, and for the top 20 selling best titles, only one of them is what I would consider mundane: Kids on Bikes (which is a kind of riff on Stranger Things). My best...

You're probably right about the detail. It's too much like homework for a lot of folks. This is one of the things I liked about the GURPs books. Not too long ago, I bought their Srivijaya PDF that detailed the Sri Vijayan empire in what would today be a part of Indonesia. If there are any...

I mean, there were mutants in Aftermath!. And later, they added a magic supplement (really? I guess they were going for a Thundarr the Barbarian apocalypse?). Bushido had a very basic system for Shugenja, and IIRC Sengoku did too. We however didn't play either of those games with magic...

I've mentioned this several times before, but if you look at the list I compiled above, a good chunk of them are where you play regular humans. No magic, no uber technology, and even in some sci-fi settings, it's not much more advanced than what we have today (eg Aliens...not counting androids...

Yes :) I am an oddball who actually loved the infamous Phoenix Command Combat System. AFAIK, it was the first system to introduce an action count phase system with the Advanced Rules. Other than the first round, there was no initiative roll, and what mattered wasn't who started an action...

Free League has had some timeliness issues getting orders to customers. Technically, it's more the fault of the distributor they use (Funagain IIRC for North America), but the fact that they keep using them means I blame them as well. I didn't get the 2nd ed The One Ring until many months...

Oh gosh, what wouldn't I want brought back? Lost classics from TSR: Gamma World, but more specifically, 3e Top Secret SI Gangbusters Indiana Jones Skyrealms of Jorune (forgot who made this) Updated versions of R. Talsorian games: Mekton Teenagers from Outer Space Victory Games James Bond...

This is an interesting perspective on something I've always pondered: why so many gamers only play D&D? When the OGL fiasco happened, I was kind of stunned going to many YouTube sites where different creators were offering alternatives to D&D. The number of comments of people who said that...

But Raistlin is who the reader identifies with. Same with Elric being the main protagonist. The readers want to hear the tales of Raistlin and Elric, not Joe The Average Mage. There's a great line from Silence of the Lambs: "We begin by coveting what we see everyday". When people see the...

Look at Raistlin from Dragonlance, or even the "colored" wizards from Middle Earth who basically truly are demigods. I could probably also add Elric (doomed though he may be, and servitor of the Gods rather than a competitor). Heck, what about Voldemort? Though he may not be a God, he (and...

I actually agree with you about the quiet thing. Too many people think that by speaking out, you show others that you are against this kind of behavior. But as the age old saying goes, "actions speak louder than words". As we have seen far far too often in today's internet driven world, the...

I recall owning TMNT and making characters in our group for it, but I don't actually recall any of the sessions :) Still, I've got quite a bit of nostalgia for it, and I just recently bought Mutants in the Now and Mutants in the Next (Julian, if you're reading this, while the type font is...

I actually preferred Greg Porter's original TimeLords (not to be confused with EABA TImeLords) and SpaceTime to EABA (1e or 2e). IMHO, SpaceTime had the best damage modelling of any game I have seen. Sadly, he doesn't make those editions available in PDF. The above two system even predate...

I recall playing a few Paranoia sessions back in the first edition, but being as young as I was, I (and my group) didn't really get it. I do remember trying to find funny names with R O Y letters (no one ever thought they would make it to Green), like Incin-R-Ator, Ott-O-Matic, or...

I believe the same. Things seem complex when a game's rules need lots of one offs to cover different (but similar) situations. My big beef with feats in D&D based games, is they effectively create exceptions to the rules so now you have to learn what every exception is. Take for example an...

I decided to put this in a separate post, since it was already too big :D I've had a homebrew game "in the works" for about 20 years :D I wanted to show this snippet of a design doc to show why I think that without being more "realistic" and focusing just on the narrative and getting those...