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I’m gonna be honest, I think creature types is a stupid rule. The only time it ever made sense was in 4e.

From everything I’ve read on the books and been told by players, 5e is supposed to be the polar opposite of how you describe it. It’s about playing “freelancers” who hate and fight “orgs” because bureaucracy is magically evil. You’re the first person I’ve seen mention that it’s about a playing...

That’s the version I was talking about. It’s a horrible downgrade compared to Vigil and has this huge chip on its shoulder regarding Vigil too. The 5th editions are all like that.

I've looked at that and found it interesting, but it has all this class bloat and redundancy and stuff. I prefer skill-based systems over class-based ones because of the bloat problem I encountered with class-based games. It definitely looks interesting, I'll give it that, but I wish it had more...

I have no idea what any of those references are.

Watch the movie Hide and Seek with Samara Weaving. I’m working on a conspiracy thriller setting involving cryptids and aliens and secret societies, with some tongue-in-cheek and satirical elements. That particular plot point is something I’m using in my setting verbatim.

Since my search hasn't come up the way I liked, I was thinking of writing my own settings instead. All the ideas I've been able to come up with are basically variations on two ideas: Contemporary Fantasy Kitchen Sink. In this setting, various magical races live hidden among human society...

First I've heard of this. I'll check that out. I've read that. The problem I keep running into is that it's all toolkit and no setting. I'm looking for a happy medium between "all toolkit, no settings" and "one setting, no alternatives, no toolkit." So far I haven't been able to find anything...

GURPS is definitely great research material, but the rules are too intimidating for me to consider playing.

Yes. I’m looking for something like Alternity, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, or Night’s Black Agents. I’m asking just in case I missed something, but by now I’m fairly sure that I’d have to write it myself.

I’ve read that. It’s limited to its single setting, not generic. It has the most flexibility I’ve found, but it doesn’t have any settings. I’m not sure that PbtA even lends itself to long campaigns.

Is there any generic contemporary fantasy/urban fantasy games that are not horror or claim to be horror? I’m looking for a game where you can play angels in human guise, dragon shifters, leprechauns, werewolves infected by a bite, hereditary vampires, frankenstein monsters, mad scientists, etc...

But they’re not different species. Many are just different races of the same species. They can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, such as half-elves and half-orcs. Paizo’s “ancestry” makes way more sense.

I think Alternity’s tech levels are more current despite being 26 years old and never receiving a revision. We’re still in PL5 Information Age, since we haven’t yet developed practical fusion to enter PL6 Fusion Age.

Tabloid! is absolute peak yellow journalism. If the Weekly World News was a ttrpg, then that would be it. The text is just hilarious. In one sentence it mentions that the PCs may have to protect a clone of JFK from the assassin who killed the original and is back to finish the job.

Then I apologize. It was not my intent to give that impression. It is actually easier to find books from the mid-19th century than the mid-20th century.

This is precisely why I advocate for shortening copyright. It’s obvious that these dumb corporations can’t steward their intellectual property. Fans deserve to be able to do as they please with it, because they’re the only ones who care.

Are you familiar with survivorship bias and lost media? It’s easy to dismiss the harms caused by ridiculously long copyright terms when only the lucky and popular media is preserved to be remembered, whereas everything else is completely forgotten. You can’t know how much was lost if you don’t...

It’s not Star*Drive, nothing like it, so I don’t care. I don’t care about any scifi setting except SD. I’ve checked them out, they’re never good enough. Abandonware is a huge problem for culture. Copyright needs to be reformed or all this culture will be destroyed by corporate malfeasance. You...

This is exactly why I think the rpg landscape is turning into gray sludge. Once a corpo publishes an idea, and they can publish a lot of ideas, now they can arbitrarily suppress the free speech of other creatives for the next 95 years for every idea they published. There are many great rpgs that...