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I agree with @Xamnam , your overall requirements sound like a FitD-type system would be a good fit. For short, episodic, online roleplaying with just basic video/audio, Ironsworn or Ironsworn: Starforged would be a fantastic fit. My group did a short, 8-session Ironsworn campaign in mid-2021...

And by the way, just to be clear, I have zero vested personal interest in the success or failure of D&D other than it's generally good for the hobby when D&D is good and popular. I'm not a Hasbro shareholder. I don't actively run D&D 5e. I'm happy if the rest of you are happy with it, since it...

Yes. Of course. And who is the "hardest core" of any gaming group? Usually the GM. And what did D&D 5e do RADICALLY differently from the past 2 editions? The bulk of content in the hardcover releases are targeted at GMs running the games---not the players. Ummm . . . so, what descriptor do...

Okay . . . who should they be targeting then? Because you wanna know a secret? On the surface I'd probably look like a prime consumer candidate, but in reality I'm not. Yes, I'm an avid RPG player and GM. Until my recent move to a new state, I played a minimum of 25 sessions a year from...

How, exactly, did a thread discussing the need for innovative business management of the D&D brand devolve into an argument over the D&D cosmology for the last 8 pages? And by the way, if you responded at any point to the cosmology/world building sideshow, you're one of the hardcore and the...

Nearly every business case study ever shows this to be objectively, provably wrong on every level. If you are running a business, your most profitable customers---and the ones most likely to expand their purchasing with you---are existing customers. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to appeal...

There's more to it as well than to just what is licensable from the actual rules text and fluff. If it's a digital platform, are they going to make some areas extensible for third-party programmers? What pieces of the code? How must third-party code that extends D&D One be licensed? What...

Pretty much any system where you can de-couple the ability that's needed from the mechanical rationale for the appearance of the ability. This would be most readily done in skill-based systems. Level / class systems would struggle a great deal more, but could probably be done with work. I know...

Low-magic Fantasy Historic setting Cyberpunk Space Opera Classic noir / neo noir Modern spy thriller High magic fantasy Urban fantasy that isn't WoD Post apocalyptic Anything else that isn't WoD Anything else that isn't WoD or horror Horror Super Heroes WoD 15 feet of crap 30. GURPS

Yeah. A lot. I would know. I used to be one of the ones saying it the loudest. But most of the time it's not even said out loud. It operates as a profound a priori assumption of just about all RPG play that focuses on D&D. "How can you be immersed if the world isn't consistent? How can the...

Yeah, for sure. For me, there's a difference between "engagement" and "immersion" as well. I can be fully engaged, having fun, feeling the tension of a scene/combat, enjoying each throw of the dice and reading its results, and be nowhere close to being in an "immersive state."

For me personally, when I'm talking about "immersion," I'm talking about deep immersion --- the type of immersion where the edges of the imagined and real space blur, the thought processes and emotions of the character become co-evident in my own thoughts and feelings, where you can put a real...

See, I used to ascribe to this view. That mechanical interactions outside the view of being "in character" were by their very nature anti-immersive, and therefore to be avoided whenever possible. Now I find this to largely be a straw man. Especially in relation to anything regarding combat...

About a year or year and a half ago, I started a thread similar to this one, decrying that I no longer felt that "immersion" as a goal of play was really a fully viable, tenable activity for roleplaying. None of the experiences I'd had with my own group had ever really remotely brought about...

I was highly skeptical of FFG Star Wars / Genesys upon hearing about it initially. I think a lot of folks in the community decried the "gimmicky" dice. It's also in a liminal space between "trad" and narrative sytems that makes it seem that it's sort of neither, which doesn't appeal to either...

I'll never play the game ever, but that Elmore cover art is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥

At first glance, the general rundown of action sounds somewhat similar to Genesys / FFG Star Wars, which I'm pretty familiar with. Comparing effect dice in Cortex sounds a lot like reading the Genesys dice pool. I'm most interested in hearing more about chargen. What does Cortex+/Prime do...

I've always wanted to run a "Godfather with swords and spears" campaign, where the point is for the PCs to become the ultimate medieval crime lords. For some reason, never found quite the right system or context to run it.

Mythras or Against the Dark Master were the first that came to mind.

It truly is amazing how much of a difference it makes when you consider "D&D the Product" to be somewhere between 9th and 12th in line of systems you would choose to run or play. I expend more mental energy choosing which cereal I eat in the morning than worrying about what will or will not...