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Twilight 2000 v2 did have Twilight Nightmares featuring aliens, dinosaurs, giant insects, and robotic killbots. While obviously not the core game, even T2K got into sci-fi scenarios.

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I have been avoiding the new site. Seeing this thread I decided to log into DTRPG and it gave me the new interface. I have a ridiculous number of items in my library as I've bought a ridiculous amount of crap on there over the years, basically digitizing my paper collection so I could feel...

I think there's multiple contributors to Shadowrun's popularity. The first I'd point out might seem dumb: trade dress. In the 90s when both games were new people bought books off shelves in a physical store. Shadowrun books had a very recognizable trade dress in their cover layouts, including...

I'm not going to make any claims that D6 is mechanically perfect or anything (Wookies in armor etc) but a lot of the potential problems with Jedi are mitigated/modulated with MAPs and slow character progression. A lot of Force powers require multiple Force skill rolls which means the character...

West End did the same with Star Wars characters. I think the idea was to make licensed characters unplayable or sort of de jure unbeatable. That way a GM didn't one-shot a licensed hero they pulled out of a book with some mook NPC. WEG's licensed games were always a little at odds with players...

While I don't disagree about the problems outlined here with GURPS it is useful to remember it's a toolbox system. You don't need to use all the rules. Many GURPS games I've played in or run over the years haven't used much more than the GURPS Lite rules. That flexibility is at least a plus for...

I really like GURPS, it's a system that pretty much does what it says on the tin. It handles a lot of genres/settings very well but there are some rough edges. The 3rd edition sourcebooks are amazing resources and I've been using them for decades for both GURPS and other games. The downside for...

While I own a couple 2d20 games I've only been able to actually play Star Trek. The core mechanic is fine and I think works for games where you want your players to do better on checks than essentially a coin flip. I've become very cool to even a hint of "bounded accuracy" in games and I think...

I want to love It Came from the Late, Late, Late Show. It's a fun premise but it's almost like it was written by two competing authors, one wanting to make a new type of game and the other just wrapping up traditional RPG elements in quirky trappings. I saw a blog post describing it as...

I really wanted to like D20 Modern just like I really wanted to like D&D 3E but it was not to be. I felt it had all the same problems as 3E: too many skills and too few skill points, too many feats, feat traps, and overly fiddly subsystems. It then introduced its own problems with its guns and...

Authenticity can easily be had with a cryptographic signature, no blockchain needed. If you wanted to make a digital version of the RPGA where a participant in an event was authenticated, they can have their character "signed" by the GM at the conclusion of the event. The GM's signature can be...

NFTs do not a damned thing to help artists get paid. An NFT is just an entry on a blockchain, which just means a naughty word database. It isn't some form of DRM that sends an artist money every time a picture is viewed.

It does not matter one iota how well meaning a company is or how nice the employees are if the fundamental business involves NFTs or cryptocurrency. They are Ponzi schemes. Not only are they Ponzi schemes but they are horribly wasteful and polluting Ponzi schemes. There is just no way around...

If you work for a company that shoots kittens out of canons it doesn't matter how nice they are to work with. At the end of the day their business model is shooting kittens out of canons. NFTs are a rent seeking cancer.

Printing minis assumes you have the time/ability to make the 3D models besides the actual printing. Even if you download models someone else made you still need to model in some support structures so they don't fall apart during printing. To me this time component is the most expensive part. I...

My group used kits, spell points, and played around with psionics a little. We didn't just allow any kit, some were munchkin bait, but I think overall I liked the idea of them. Spell points and psionics I felt were cut from the same cloth and made spell casting a but more RuneQuest-y. Letting...

Alternity was a generic core set of rules with optional rules to cover different genres and settings. So unlike Traveller or D6 Space you could easily do planetary romance, modern occult, space fantasy, or a bunch of other not-quite-science-fiction-but-not-high-fantasy settings. The FX system...

Each character at a different station on the ship is usually the best way to run things. Don’t think of a station as a single skill check though. Operating the sensors isn’t a single roll. It’s the actual sensor operation, perception-checks/idea rolls to notice details the GM wants to hand out...

If you have Mythras now and like the rules I'd suggest sticking with that. You can use the BRP Aces High monograph with Mythras pretty easily for your old west pastiche needs. If you went GURPS but don't already own it then you're looking at a $60+ investment for a game you might not like...