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Don't forget the bit about dealing with problematic players by having them get attacked by invisible ethereal mummies or hit by lightning bolts out of nowhere.

Pixies were an official player option in 4E, although they came along pretty late, in the Heroes of the Feywild book.

Since it comes up a lot (A LOT), I will also note that the dictum to "be a fan of the characters" does not mean simply handing the players wins with no effort. My favorite example is Spider-Man. If you're a fan of Spidey, you're going to want to see him in stories where he's stressing out over...

Giant Corporate-Owned Comics Superhero Roleplaying is a Cortex Prime hack that recreates MHR without the Marvel intellectual property; however, it's not a complete game in itself. You need the Cortex Prime rules.

That's basically Icons, which traces its DNA to both FASERIP and Fate. Along with Cortex/MHR, it's one of my favorite supers RPGs.

13th Age usually calls that type of monster a Wrecker.

Started with Holmes Basic, played lots of 1e/2e/3e back in the day, but if I had to play only one edition it'd be 4e. I have zero interest in going back to older editions other than maybe for a one-off nostalgia game.

Based on the playtest beta, monster layout hasn't changed.

I'm a Tom & Jerry, Super Friends, and Looney Tunes kid.

I first quit D&D in the early 2000s after it became apparent to me that 3.5 was broken and unmanageable; there were just too many overpowered spells and it was too easy for casters to dominate the game. I was skeptical of 4E at first but when I tried it, I found it was exactly what I wanted...

No weirder than the Forgotten Realms -- and a hell of a lot less weirder than places like Tekumel or Jorune, I'd say.

I play 13th Age, where player characters are literally required to have One Unique Thing about them. Miraculously, the world does not collapse.

PF1E: Caster supremacy (especially since we're at high level at this point) and having to build martial characters to be one-trick ponies if you want to be any good at combat. Star Wars: Characters just don't feel capable enough to do the sort of daring heroics I associate with Star Wars --...

My regular group plays Pathfinder 1E, which sucks, and Star Wars d6, which is better but showing its age.

In the playtest, you now roll your icon dice only once per "arc" (the new term for the three- or four-encounter sequence between full heal-ups), not per session. Which is how I'd been doing it anyway. There are also a new 20-25 pages on how to use icon relationships in play, with a ton of examples.

Pelgrane is based in Britain, so I'd think their EU shipping rates would be more friendly than a US-based company. The fighter's (and bard's) flexible attacks are gone in the beta playtest, replaced by more straightforward abilities.

Looking through the playtest beta, they've added champion- and epic-tier talents to the paladin, so you're not stuck picking from the same little pool of talents for your paladin for your entire career (like the 5E battlemaster). Smite and Lay on Hands are now both class abilities so they don't...

Wilderness of Mirrors is also unusual in that the GM is supposed to provide only the premise of the mission, and during the planning phase the players fill in the obstacles between themselves and the goal -- which is quite different from the "try to guess the DM's mind" type of traditional...

A hour of valuable game time spent planning, and then suddenly rendered useless because someone biffed their Stealth roll and alerted every guard for miles around, is not fun.

Yeah, that's one of the problems with banning magic item stores, especially if you also insist on handing out randomly generated treasure: the party is inevitably going to accumulate a pile of magic items they've outgrown and/or have no use for -- which contributes to magic items feeling boring...