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It's not about real life. It never is with D&D. It's about what the game rules allow. I do use wargames tactics against my players because we all are wargamers. We enjoy that. YMMV. :)

5e has rules for playing with a grid. As usual they are in the DMG not the PHB. Grab a sheet of grid paper and count the squares, you'll get it.

If you have a second rank with halberds (reach) 24 people can attack a single character.

Ok, this needs more detailing. I'm granting you an extra 100 words. :)

Finally! Excellent news.

None. If you don't like any of them just don't use them at your table. I'm not tired of any of them.

Fantasy AGE by Green Ronin. Symbaroum by Free League. Forbidden Lands by Free League. Runequest by Chaosium.

I've played several times with just two players. They each had one main character and one sidekick character. Worked really well. In a D&D game the main characters were a druid and a wizard. Their sidekicks were fighter body guards. In pulp story the main characters were an...

Sadly I never had a GI Joe. I had Big Jim instead. He was a karate master and secret agent. I just looked him up on wiki and had no idea there were so many different Jims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Jim_(toy_line)

My experiences with more than 4 players is that those furthest from the GM tend to talk about non-game topics very often. They feel less engaged. Maybe that would be different with a round table? Never been to a rpg convention.

As I stated earlier in the Outer Rim post I made about the FFG game of the same name I'm doing a solitary mini-campaign using the game's mechanics to generate the story. I opted for the d20 SAGA edition. 1) I randomly selected my solo character and got Lando Calrisian. I need to make the...

Yep. That is what I learned during my communication degree (a very long time ago). Less channels means less distortion and less noise. Which I prefer.

One doesn't exclude the other. You can most certainly have deep and rich role-playing games with just 3 players. It's about the quality of the players not the type (tactical or not) of game being played.

Who are you talking to? Maybe you quoted the wrong person. 🙃

Exactly! It is more intimate. Less channels of communication. No one feels left out.

Three players is the magic number for me. I person per side of the table. Easier to get everyone together. Also, I prefer having henchmen to help players than having extra players.

I made the mistake of changing how I usually did things and created a detailed world for 4e. Wrote a 30 pages Gazetteer-like document that no one read. I had to info dump the all general concepts at session 1. We ended up using only 10% of the world. After that I returned to my usual method...

They are tie-in products for the Renegade games CCGs for the three franchises. Maybe the kids will play the CCGs and then get into the rpgs. Or vice versa if their parents have shown them how to play rpgs when they were old enough.

GI Joe has had three movies. One in 2009, 2013 and the latest one 'Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins' just came out this week. Not a coincidence. :)

Gi Joe is the one for me. Easiest to change to a near-future home-brew setting.