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Started with D&D '79-80 (got it for Christmas). First time I played a non-D&D game was 2 years later - Gamma World (run by a close friend), followed shortly after by Star Frontiers, and then Villains & Vigilantes all in pretty quick succession, once the realization there were other games/genres...

Stumbled across this, it piqued my interest. Bought a copy, reading through the PDF while waiting for the physical copy. The Hope & Fear roll has me most intrigued, reminds me somewhat of the Wild Die mechanic in WEG Star Wars D6.

Well, they're all tropes. So, if you don't want it defined by what they do, then that would be what they "are". The Kid Man With No Name The Princess The Genius The Goth The Rebel The Hired Gun The Dark Lord etc.

Well, obviously the Wizard Spell Compendium (1-4) from 2E and the Priest's Spell Compendium (1-3) from 2E. You can get the PDFs from DriveThruRPG for $5 each.

Because of the lack of Water Domain spells (especially water-based attack spells). Making a Fire domain would be easy, and Air isn't too difficult. Earth gets a little trickier, but just about everything for a Water domain spellwise would more suited to an Ice/Frozen domain. Elemental domains...

Well, that sucks. Though, as I said, it uses the same rules as the X-wing game so you could use the rulebook from that game, just with some different terms (Armor instead of Shields, Hit Points instead of Hull, Dodge instead of Defense, Attack is based on the creature's base size). I did find...

If you want some pretty detailed flying combat and you're familiar with the X-Wing* game, Wizkids licensed a D&D version called Attack Wing (now out of print). This link goes to the web page where you can download the rules, this link goes to the wiki about the releases for the game and other...

I'm trying out a system where I gave the stock fighter and ranger Superiority dice (Fighter starts with 1d6, gets up to 6d6 at 17th - Ranger starts with 3d8 superiority dice, goes up to 5d12 by 18th level). Rangers can get special maneuvers themed towards certain creatures (such as giants), but...

Just got the Level-Up Advanced 5E Player's book and order Old-School Traps (5E) for my wife. She's been complaining the DMG doesn't have any traps listed in it, so I figured this would be a good book to kill us by.

Before all the drama with the Bledsaws came to light, a friend gave me the Mayfair boxed sets of City-State (and add-ons), and I'd managed to get a hold of the 1E & 3E versions of City-State. I would like to get this, as I'm sure with the other OAR it'll have a history section about the old...

I'm not much for Erol Otus as cover/color art, but I do like a lot of his interior black-and-white pieces. Nice to see he's still creating and being appreciated though!

Most of the times I name the gem, but ask for a skill check to identify value. Makes things like having proficiency in Gemcutter's tools worth taking. As a gemstone collector, sometimes I get mean and describe it (or hold up one of my sample stones) and they'll have to suss out what it is...

Would it at least be a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style book?

I used to think that I needed a system for everything, to the Nth degree - like 3E D&D. Nowadays, I'm happier with a more open system and less detail. As long as it has some structure to fairly handle "did it work?" and allow someone to specialize (or be absolutely rotten) in doing whatever...

If it wasn't a case of "cancel and go home", probably a board game (Settlers, Zombicide, D&D 4E board game, etc.) or pull out a deckbuilding, CCG or card game everyone knows - for me and mine it would be MtG (I have a handful of the prebuilt decks from days gone by), Lord of the Rings...

Hope you have more luck than I did. I was still in a D&D mentality when we tried it (back in the 90s?). It lasted one session. As my brother said, "I will. never. play. this. game. again." Which makes me sad as I've learned so much about non-hack'n'slash games since then and it's a really...

TBH, I was not aware of any of this.

I'm a bit broader in my definition, in that a game's dead when 1) No one's heard of it/there isn't a community for it 2) No company is making product for it 3) No one's picked up the ball to produce ongoing content People can still be playing it if it's "dead", but if noone's making content...

Also, @Voadam brings up a good point - there are a lot of statless "coffee table" books out there for famous worlds that can be good sources for running worlds - at our house we have the likes of a world book of Pern, Song of Fire & Ice, Dark Crystal, Legend of Zelda, a couple of Magic the...