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A few other possibilities: The Dark Matter setting for Alternity (original recipe) and D20 Modern features your more conspiracy-laden, X-Files-esque alien invasion. Back in the distant days of AD&D 2e, there was a boxed set called Tale of the Comet featuring a 'standard' D&D world getting...

Relic by the now-defunct Bandit Camp is a failed Kickstarter; its creator has left the gaming space after some personal issues. Urban Shadows 2e is finally being delivered, but 3-4 years late, with the people who pledged for the limited edition getting hurt the worst by delays. The one I'm...

I've been enjoying Triangle Agency recently, and while I don't know if it has the best art it definitely has very evocative art that really gets the mood and tone of the game across. I'd also put Symbaroum in the same category. Everything by 2 Little Mice also deserves mention - Household...

My group uses cameras because we all know each other IRL; we were meeting physically until COVID. We went to online play during the pandemic, which is good, because it's let the group stay together as people have moved, had kids, etc. Every group I've played with that started online just uses...

I would add that Roll20 has a free account option, but you'll want to pay for a subscription if you're running games to unlock some useful functionality. The free version is enough for you to experiment a little and see how it works, though. One reason I prefer Foundry is that it's got a...

On the VTT front, you probably only need to worry about it if you're the GM, as it's usually up to the GM to decide the platform they're going to use. If you are GMing, I personally like Foundry, as it's got support for most of what I want to play and has lots of customization options, thanks to...

My go-to today would probably be Outgunned. The base game can handle it, but I'd also grab the Action Flicks supplement and use the Rising Dragon rules package, which is designed to cover the wuxia genre. Depending on the details of the game I was planning to run, I might also make use of the...

Blades in the Dark also does this to some extent. There's one playbook that focuses on mystic capability, but their special abilities aren't better than the ones on offer to the more "mundane" playbooks. For something classless, I'd point to Swords of the Serpentine. In SotS, investment in magic...

Break!! is worth reading. My thoughts, in brief, were that it's got tons of cool ideas, although they're not always fleshed out. The setting is pretty distinctive and features half the world being trapped in permanent night after the destruction of the Sun Machine in an earlier age, so it now...

Bloody underground amateur train surgery.

I mostly prohibit multiclassing in 5e; I have a couple of players who are avid optimizers, and I find that eliminating multiclassing gets rid of a good swathe of the stuff that annoys me. I don't mind optimization, but I like to make sure that the optimizers and the non-optimizers are both able...

It did both - initially, you took a multiclass feat which typically granted a skill proficiency and a weaker version of a class power, like an at-will power usable 1/encounter. That feat made you count as a member of both classes for other feats, and opened up access to the Novice, Acolyte, and...

I don't want to be drawn into a long and pointless conversation, so I plan to reply to this and then exit the thread. Might change my mind, of course. Framing this as the GM "making things" that the players tell them to make is just wrong. Insofar as anything is being "made" here, it's being...

Moving away from D&D, The Great Pendragon Campaign surely counts. It covers the full story of King Arthur, from Britain under King Uther in 485 through the destruction of the Round Table and the death of Arthur at Camlann in 565, with a bit of a wrap-up to cover the Saxon conquest in later...

I have been trying not to engage on this sort of topic, but against my instincts... here we go. Let's just start off here: it's the height of irony that you're asking for charity from others in interpreting what you say when you regularly, across multiple threads, refuse to grant it to others...

For published campaign-length adventures, I've always been a big fan of the Night Below boxed set for AD&D 2e. It goes from the PCs doing standard adventurer stuff on the surface to a massive delve into the Underdark, culminating in the characters raiding and sacking a aboleth city. I also have...