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I don't so much have a system to suggest as a Meta-setting. Forbidden Kingdoms for D&D 3.x (D&D classes presented as Advanced Classes for d20 Modern as well) presents a Gunslinging skill used for Showdowns. There are few maps to speak of, unfortunately.

The ones that come across as "whoever's loudest wins" is where narrative control is determined primarily by interruption.

I had originally worded that as "PCs dying left and right", but decided on the different wording. The assumption that letting the die roll "do its job" = "dead PCs every fight" is how this assumption comes across to me. To be fair, there are systems that are deadlier by design, and even they...

From either the GM or player side, there are an awful lot of assumptions about style that don't make sense to me. The most jarring for me is "let the dice fall where they may" = "PCs dying frequently". What are some of yours?

There are several diceless RPGs on the market. Some simply use a different randomizer, others are more of a "whoever's loudest wins" to me.

Slay the evil princess and rescue the innocent dragon. Somebody had to say it.

Kevin Cook, using "dice" as both singular and plural seems to have been the way it always was in the UK, it's gaining ground in the US much to my chagrin.

While I don't delve too much into Hobbit/LotR lore, Beorn has a whole people of werebears the Beornings. Just because monster manuals are full of a variety of monsters doesn't mean that all of them are on every single world. Because of the OtherWorlds Creations metasetting Forbidden Kingdoms, I...

I'm doing "as a body" because what Americans call the hood is called the "bonnet" in the UK, thus suggesting that the front of the car is the head, so extrapolating from that wouldn't the wheels be the equivalent of legs/feet? Still surprised that it's short o in "scone" instead of long.

At least in and around Michigan, there are a lot of tabletop gamers of all kinds. Whether that is more or less than computer gamers, I don't know, I deliberately avoid such polls: not important enough for my time. Although I prefer brevity, spending a few extra words to say "book and dice"...

I started a job where college professors or their bookstores send us information for course packs. While doing one of the more tedious parts of this job, I noticed some of the writing on a course pack. Why have some people switched to singular "Dice" and plural "Die"? The next course pack I...

The wording of your poll makes me an invalid candidate to answer it. Even if it were worded differently, you still don't have the answer I'd choose. Obviously this has a lot to do with gaming styles. Some people are really into mechanics. Although I like fiddly systems, I'm not one of them...

There is no H sound in the first two pronunciations in your poll. For me, it would be 2, without the non-exitant H sound.

I'd like to be on the player side of World Tree more often. Often I tend to run the games I want to play. When I get people interested in them, it makes me happy.

I had some ideas for Changeling: the Lost games that amused me but never got off the ground. One was about various holiday characters being True Fey, and I had planned on doing a "robot" Santa NPC as a Manikin enemy. Whoops, actually, my other plot was for Changing Breeds.

I've only actually played In Nomine twice. That would be fun to play more often.

Because during the '90s, I suffered from "shiny new toy syndrome", often buying a book for any game I'd played a single session of. In the late '90s, after looking at my Planescape collection in particular, I realized I was relying too much on the imaginations of others. Some of my books have...

Too "busy" for my tastes.

As of 3.0, magic items have a price. If I'm recalling correctly, you can sell things for half their value according to the rules. This is too simple. It doesn't really allow for fluctuations in an area's (or person's) finances, desire, or supply of the item in question.

Adding to Hand of Evil's response, begin with the end in mind. Start with what you want the final result to look like, and work backwards to get to that point.