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My first superhero RPG was Chaosium's Superworld in 1984 or thereabouts. Since then I've sampled almost everything in the genre. A lot of supers games are more wargame than rpg, with a big emphasis on fighting, and complex mechanics for handing a wide variety of interactions. Superworld and...

It's interesting that a number of recommendations here are 'generic' setting-agnostic systems such as FATE and Savage Worlds. What makes these an easy recommendation is that they don't include settings, so there's no need for supplements. The assumption is the GM is doing the hard work of...

I ran it for a bit earlier this year. On the plus side the action economy is similar enough to D&D that veterans of that game convert to it easily. The core rules are fairly pared down and easy to use. Powers sit atop those as a mass of exception rules. It's very combat-heavy. If you like your...

Just a cheapo spiral-bound thing for the prototype, but it's real! It exists!

Yup. We've been waiting for this one for a long time. It was supposed to be out in 2024. Then Ian Cooper turned up with a prototype copy at Dragonmeet and now we have an official date of a Feb 2025 release, at least for a .pdf version.

QuestWorlds is basically 3rd edition Hero Wars/HeroQuest, but with a rules cleanup to the storytelling system. Hardly any lookup charts. As a mature system it's really clean and encourages fast play by bundling what other games would do as fiddlesome die roll tests into those that focus on...

QuestWorlds from Chaosium.