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Ironically, I think your needed answer might be just the opposite of most of the answers: run two groups. One with a recruited group of hard core system-learners. And a second on 3rd party module autopilot for your wife and those most compatible in the existing group... The light weight group...

Bitter Chalice looks sweet... but Free League's got my budget for the month (and next) for Alien 2nd ed...

It's a variant of Dymaxion projection, developed by Buckminster Fuller and made public in 1954. Dymaxion is the same projection to faces, but arranges the faces to minimize continent splits on maps of earth...

Cortex Prime isn't even playable without the setting construction step... save for the uses 10% of the book prebuilt example, which is a Thunderbirds are Go! knockoff.

You're missing several currently available: Savage Worlds, EABA, Hero System, BRP, Genesys, Mekton Zeta... Fate actually is multiple games: Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, and a bunch of adapted core Fate system games. And some others: Masterbook, d6 System Toolkit, CORPS: Complete Omniversal...

ORC... it's designed to cure the two biggest problems of the Wizards OGL 1.0 and 1.0a: (1) the license itself being copyrighted text belonging to WotC, and (2) Wizards having included a forced update provision. The forced update provision can put new product under a license they didn't agree...

Yeah, those are dead flat no-go for me. I'm not a fan of the transhumanist/posthumanist settings... despite playtest of Freemarket (Crane/Sorenson) Small portable radios capable of LEO have been a staple of a LOT of sci-fi since the 50's... EE "Doc" Smith, Isaac Asimov, Gene Roddenberry, Gerry...

For a fantasy world, Calendars, preferably by culture. Cultural sketches and maps. I don't want brand names for fantasy - it snaps my WSOD. Fashion and dress are nice if well done, wasted space otherwise. I want some major plot hooks to hang adventures upon. I want stats for all the culturally...

Felt very much like a port of Traveller's tropes to Alternity to me. Including the fixed time with any distance not to exceed the drive's rating. Not a bad port, either.

Palladium Fantasy 1r has (checks pdf).. Arcane Spells: Magical (Wizard), Elemental (Warlock) Pact Spells: Witch, Wards: Diabolist Circles: Summoner Psionics: Mind Mage Skill-like animal interactions and transformation: Druid 3 forms of clerical magic... But they boil down to 3 mechanics...

The ship designs are already problematic, in that there are only 4 frames given: C, G, M, R, and only C doesn't include a hyperdrive. Further most of the ships have additional space for hyperdrives to improve speed. The sublight drives are not given an absolute value, but a modifier, and it's...

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Only if you have the predicate talent. Most characters can't actually learn psionics. Had one player, his rolls resulted in a PSR 10 but no talents. Under CT, if you fail the talent roll, you never get to try again for that one. The order checked for is important, and so it's highly likely that...

That number has been trending upward since the end of November to hit that point... I doubt it is stopping there. It's not just the tariffs, either, tho' that's a big one.

Dragonlance has magic studied at three institutes (the three towers of High Sorcery). An institution studying something does not make it science... such as the various institutions "researching" and teaching flat-earth, intelligent design, theology, philosophy, any of the fine arts...

No, Traveller does NOT present them as having a scientific explanation. It doesn't explain them much; it just presents them as rules. Psionics has been solidly part of Science Fiction since the 1950's. Oxford Languages attributes the term to 1950's, as do several other etymological references...

It had enough designer support at release to build a fanbase big enough to draw a self-repleneshing fanbase, and to draw designers to tweak on that. Every one of those also is support for the ecosystem. BITD is a growing concern because the fanbase got the initial support from the dev to...

For me, fumble equals failure plus complication, nothing more. "Incompetence on parade" isn't fun for most players.

Wrong. It's had plenty of support, in the form of the designer and the games fans explaining how to play it.

He also licensed out the village book to a number of other companies to sell in the 00's, then later bitched that they were selling them. (Including Hyperbooks and Quicklink Interactive. QLI quit selling eBooks in about 2009.)