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Well, maybe something like this? Veteran Game Designers Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet Announce 13th Age: A 'Love Letter' to Their Favorite Dungeon-Crawling Fantasy Game Pelgrane Press Ltd 13th Age

I'd agree Savage Worlds would be a good choice. If you really want to stick to a d20-ish system, I'd recommend Mutants & Masterminds (PL 6-8) or maybe Spycraft.

I don't see anything out of line here.

I'd almost think there would be an ongoing propaganda war of low and mid-level evils spreading their names far and wide while the forces of good try to suppress them. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetle...

In a word, no. The only thing you need to worry about with xp is everyone agreeing to how you use it. When I DM'd 2nd and 3rd, I was a real stickler on xp. When I ran 4th, I just told everybody they were going to level when that section of the story arc was over, regardless of how they got...

You could put a light system around this, something akin to Dread. It's kinda fun watching slightly drunk people play Jenga.

Like magic itself, how important names are varies from setting to setting. In worlds where they're important, like Dresden Files or the Eragon series, they're big. In those two, if you can use a person's true name as part of a spell, they have essentially no defense whatsoever. The times I've...

I'm not really invested in either side of the argument. But the voice in my head that sounds like a crabby old man keeps saying, "They aren't called Miss Points, ya dern kids!"

I've just noticed the version I downloaded is an .m4a, not .mp3. For those having problems, see if your player supports whatever that is.

Go look at all the other info, but I'd add one more thing. Since you're coming in from outside the U.S., be sure you take a look at the U.S. and Brazilian customs regulations. You don't want to risk anything you really need being confiscated when you get here. You also don't want to spend...

I get the occasional odd look at work when I "display conspicuous knowledge". For example, I seem to know a concerning amount about arson and explosives for an insurance guy who's never been a claims investigator. On the other hand, the boss is a gun enthusiast, so that subject is never a problem.

DM fiat.

Maybe the web browser is set to automatically dump cookies daily?

Someone (I'm too lazy to Google) once said D&D was twenty minutes of fun crammed into four hours of playing. I think the goal is to improve that ratio.

How fast your characters level is between you and your players. It can be as fast or slow as you all agree on. I was a stickler on points in 2e and 3e, but I didn't use the xp system at all in my 4e game. If the pace is what everyone wants, nobody will complain.

Q: How many Hit points does a sacred cow have? A: An amount appropriate to how badly the DM wants the cow dead. If you don't like hit points, don't use them. There were one or two alternate systems in the 3e Unearthed Arcana that could be ported to just about any edition. And with 5e's...

Most of my "unique" stuff was in my 2e games. One party had a key that could open any door, once per day, but only if you already knew what was on the other side. I gave one guy an Everfull Bag of Peanuts. It wasn't something I'd planned. But when a guy plans out a ritual dedicated to the...

Every other game I like lets me buy pdfs. WotC is the odd one out here. The rest of what DDI already does is okay.

The last long-term game I ran was online. Between jobs and family, we only managed about a 2 1/2 hour session a week. I'm interested in seeing anything that lets me use that kind of time to have an awesomer* game. *yes, completely made up a dumb word.

They'll hopefully make it easy enough to build your own stuff. That'd let you adjust mechanics while maintaining the spirit of what you were wanting.