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Although it's OOP, you should seriously consider Alternity. It's excellent for modern and near future sf, with a modular mechanics system that is realistic but also easily allows for more cinematic, heroic-style combat and action. Core books are available cheaply on ebay, and you can still...

2 days, lots of views and no replies... Alright, I'll take a stab at this. I suspect that, for the most part, players and GMs who are interested in genuine narrative as you've described it are probably not playing D&D. The predetermined archetypal characters that are emphasized in D&D do seem...

I backed the FATE kickstarter, just based on the system's good rep, but I haven't looked very closely at the draft version yet. Thanks for the suggestion! I imagined FATE as a much looser, cinematic, pulpy kind of system.

Here's a list of the Hard Sci-Fi core rulebooks currently available on RPGNow. Don't be too dismissive of out-of-print games. Just because a game is old doesn't mean it's not still imminently playable, and many old games still maintain active player bases generating high quality, fan-produced...

I'm trying to choose a system for a gritty, LeCarre-style Cold War espionage campaign with these features: -- Pretty realistic action and combat. -- Significant political intrigue with complex PC interaction. -- Opportunity for PCs to develop down multiple career paths and allegiances. I'm...

I don't know a lot of these names, but two stand out for me: Rel is an awesome GM who's hosted some of the most fun one-shots I've ever played. There is a real wisdom to the way he runs a table. Fiddleback is an incredibly creative guy whose contributions to the Star Wars RPG podcasts and...

Where are you located? There are a lot of good gamedays hosted by EN Worlders and CMers. Did I see that the new owners of ICE are working on a new edition of Rolemaster?

This idea reminds of the book/movie, The Deep. In it, a honeymooning couple diving off Bermuda stumble onto the fact that a lost Spanish galleon was hiding underneath a WWII wreck. But they run into a group of bad guys trying to get to the secret cargo of the WWII wreck. Definitely worth...

Watching this, but imagining the camerawork and editing of TableTop, I could see a winner here. It's the banter among the players that makes it.

In this week's edition of What If, xkcd looks at what our world would be like if the layout of the continents were 90° off of what they are now. Largely, this is an exercise in applying basic climatology -- albeit with a lot of supposition because of the inherent complexity of it all. Similar...

I love SFB,, but I do not think it's easily customizable,, and I would be hard pressed to use it in an rpg.

I'll second Alternity. It's a great rules system for pbp and definitely has the feel for a hard science setting or a more space opera setting.

I was out of town for work for a couple months, but I'm back on the Cape now and I'm very interested in both playing Pathfinder and playing/running SWSE. PM me if you're still looking for players or a Star Wars game.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. An awesome tale of thievery and con jobs in a great city setting. Not a D&D novel per se, but definitely an inspiring read.

I went to my first game convention 30 years ago, can't count how many I've been to since, and I still LOVE them! This is probably my top reason for going. It's always a smorgasbord of fun stuff run by people who are really excited about whatever they're running. It's also a chance to play...

There will be up to six player spots in the Alternity game.

I'll be running a classic space opera using Alternity: The Death Planet (Alternity: Star*Drive)--- A simple run to a remote mining colony turns complicated when the crew of the tramp freighter, Ethel's Misery stumbles on to the planet's deadly secret. Spaceship battles, alien encounters...

Count me in for Fiasco! I've been dying to try that game. I'll run: Attack of the Undersea Kingdom -- pulp action in the South China Sea or Alternity Star Drive -- Firefly-esque space opera on the edge of the universe.

As a kid in the '70s, two sources fed me. Edgar Rice Burroughs books and Errol Flynn movies

Tarzan turned me into an Edgar Rice Burroughs junkie starting in 4th grade.