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So, Savage Worlds can play into neotrad elements very well in some ways. Since it's classless and skill based, you can lean into just about any core character concept. If the players wanted to come to a shared agreement on how to use "bennies" to keep character threads intact throughout a...

No, you really can't go home. I'm now coming up on 5 years removed from having run or played in a Savage Worlds game. Savage Worlds was hands down my favorite system from 2012 through 2019. Nothing even came close. I wouldn't have chosen to run anything else. But I'm not sure what happened...

PbtA is not neotrad. It puts characters at far too much risk. There's way too much of a chance for your character being forced to evolve in ways narratively that may conflict with a player's initial conception.

GURPS, obviously, if that's to taste, which it isn't for me. If I were serious about the type of system you're describing, I'd take a good, hard look at EABA, or its predecessor CORPS.

My current default mode is what I'd call "flexi-trad narrative", heavily influenced from Ironsworn and Genesys, where there is a GM, but with a broad, open view around players contributing / adding to a game's fictional state, both at an immediate and meta / worldbuilding level. I am fully...

Follow-up --- a quick search on Drivethrurpg found no listings for this. Unless there's some query-fu I don't know about, this RPG isn't listed on Drivethru's site. So I guess you basically have to purchase the Gog.com digital game to get it as a reward.

So . . . I was just messing around in my Gog.com profile. I saw that they have the 2000 game Rune: Classic on sale for $2 and thought, "Hey, I really liked that game. It was pretty good for being Unreal Engine V1 back in the day; I should buy it." But then remembered, "I think I bought it on...

I totally feel this, and basically gave up on D&D ever getting it right at the very end of the 3.5 run. Savage Worlds made it easy to do and it always felt right, and was always balanced, because Savage Worlds has a sneaky elegant way of forcing you to make certain character trade offs if you...

Half-elf rogue or human sorcerer/psion. Slightly cagey, slightly socially distant from society, but with a strong core motivation.

Tiny D6 would be a great choice.

Some of it depends on mindset. There are some "rules lite" systems that are really just trying to pare down the "traditional" RPG experience by offloading work to the GM. Some "rules lite" systems are a reaction to some of the built-in, assumed standard operating procedures of the...

Seconded. Both Starforged and its predecessor Ironsworn fit your requirements to a T. I too struggled with Dungeon World. Ironsworn is partially based on DungeonWorld, but has a better, more interesting core mechanic, and adds some additional rules layers that make it more fun and easier to get...

QFT. If you ever find an RPG you like based on a related media IP property, get as much of it as you can, while you can, because it is absolutely guaranteed at some point that the licensee will lose their license and the product will disappear forever.

Hard to decide between Savage Worlds Deluxe core rulebook, the 3.0 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and Ironsworn: Starforged. I guess if forced to choose I'd go with Starforged. Could adapt that ruleset to almost anything imaginable and it would be both playable and fun.

Commenting on some tricks I used to manage dice interpretation --- I know The Alexandrian was highly critical of the overall setup of the dice spread and interpretation. (You can go back and look at his playtesting from several years ago if you care). And I can see his points to a degree...

Genesys offers a unique, fun, collaborative system for GMs and players who want to sand down and refinish the "traditional" RPG experience into something .... Less traditional without going fully in another direction. It absolutely assumes a group that is comfortable with breaking from a...

Whereas for me it creates a false . . . positivity? Sensibility? Expectation? . . . about the variability of task resolution. As a player you DON'T KNOW that your chance of success is always "70%", or at least you shouldn't. Situational modifiers should be part and parcel with good GM-ing, IMHO...

I've read somewhere else that you can easily convert GURPS to a roll-over system by setting a default target DC of 21 for everything, roll 3d6, and add your skill to get the end result. I'm not saying I'd love GURPS if someone actually did this. But it would go a ways in making me not...