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I love the concept of BitD. However, I am worried about having the time and energy to run it. Blades seems like it has a lot of tracking of resources and gang capabilities and faction relations/motivations and such. Do you find it to be the case? If you love the concepts, give it a good read...

Blades in the Dark. The game has hard limitations on character death - it can happen, but how & when is controlled by the group. Since your group had an issue with PC death, it might do the trick.

Following the theme of a "Fighting/War Wizard" (one of my favorites), Physical. I can't damage or destroy physical objects with Mental/Stun magic, and combat isn't always about targeting living targets. Having the ability to destroy an opponent's possessions could even have greater...

Huge shout out to Steve Kenson, one of the best writers, activists and RPG designers I've encountered.

Looks very fun. Definitely checking it out.

Can AI NPCs react to all the possible actions of players and their characters? If so, how?

Three inches, which is thirty feet within an AD&D dungeon, but becomes again three inches for the purposes of tabletop miniature usage.

"Fun isn't balanced" and "Balance isn't fun". Okay. D&D has never been balanced: Magic-Users/Wizards suck at low level but become demigods at mid-high level. But it's the most popular RPG on ground. People champion Apocalypse World but it has XP and Advancement to improve a PC just like D&D...

Ravenloft (I6). 3 times, 2 TPKs. Actually the first run should've been a TPK but my friend was running a Paladin he really, really liked.

Upon hearing "anything" I'd creep towards either a Superhero RPG or RIFTS (Palladium's rather than the rated-G SW edition). You want "anything" do you?

I, like so many of those in this hobby, prefer Palms. They're the only truly distinctive means of calculating space without employing a calculator.

And this, m'Lord, is why RPGs have rules.

I'm all over Army Men and Outgunned looks fun.

If "Forge Games™" are so valuable and interesting, why don't they dominate the RPG hobby - like say WoTC's golden calf or CoC or Traveller or Cyberpunk or those other really boring games that everyone is playing?

Obscure and unrealistic to you ;) The sun doesn't rise and fall on D&D for many gamers.

The kickstarter trailer is great! I knew one day I'd return to those dirty green men. Sold!

Since GMs actually run the games most players play, more players would indeed know about more narrative-focused rpgs if their GMs introduced them to those games, wouldn't you agree? As GM I've introduced some players to new (to them) game systems that they enjoyed more than D&D/PF.

Looks like Railroad the RPG™. You're using a literary concept (character arc) and imposing it on people playing a game and that isn't railroading? GM: "Okay so instead of alignment, you pick values and then I'll create scenes where those values force your character to change. The change...

Justin's been producing great GM advice for years and I'm hoping his book does well.

Any? You just tell the GM/group that your character wants to go with such-and-such directional arc and it happens. You don't need rules to do that. You can do it with Risus or D&D or A Song of Ice and Fire or whatever game you're using.