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Tulok the Barbarian on YouTube does 20 Level 5e builds of a of supers using only WOTC and UA material and the standard array. His only concession is occasional use of custom backgrounds which are PHB legal anyway Its a cool channel There is also a 3rd part supplement called Marvelous...

There was a Pokethulhu satire version by S.John Ross . Its still free on Drivethru.

Given how devious players can be unless you create really tight campaigns and game worlds you have to embrace the crazy sometimes. I've had players blow up a magic UFO in a Faerie forest, travel to other worlds, fight a lich lord and become Marcher Merchant Lords all in one game, also seen...

I've run Pokethulhu at least . It did not go over well. As for Supers games. Many GM's are timorous when it comes to game balance and have trouble managing Batman adventures much less far more powerful supers. I have played and run in such games with some success but its challenging. Also...

Good point . Its telling though the game is very popular I don't know any tabletop gamers who play Red Dead Redemption but we all play Skyrim. Its not difficult but it also isn't that interesting to most either. Why bother with sixguns and horses and dying of being gutshot when you have...

Great list here. Problem is other than the Witcher and Mandalorian (which I don't watch) no one in our gaming group has any of these in common. This makes gaming buy in too expensive.Ultimately its basically comes back to D&D because we all know that.

Too much learning curve especially for teenage boys who made up huge chunks of the gamers at the time. When I was young lad back in the day I was the only person who knew anything about the prohibition era or who had ever seen a Western even though I lived in that region and I didn't know...

2020 is not all of modernity grasshopper.

Detection is an issue. Its why SF setting have to put a tight lid down on surveillance tech.A example It wouldn't be that hard to develop tracking implants and mandate them . They might cost pennies and be essential unavoidable as you can't work or buy anything without one.. That's maybe twenty...

Melee combat is often messier and more violent than gun fights. Worse it goes on longer than say say two supressed 9mm rounds vs a cultist . And note suppressors are well within the skills of a typical PC.

Has its own RPG using a Fate variation. Good stuff. Come to think of it we tried the setting once I think , it didn't click for some reason.

I love the genre but I only watched Grimm more than once . My group (30-55 in age) hasn't seen any of these. I wonder of that is common enough to impact the genre.

The difference is that option books are for all kind of options for use in all kinds of games Setting books need to include setting specific options. This can mean a bit of overlap which can suck but usually its not that much. Also for the many gamers who don't care about Ebberon as a...

B5 is very American though its usually considered SF. The reason that American Fantasy is hard to describe is that the culture is in transition on a number of levels. Once that settles, we may have a new distinctly American fantasy or we may not as the Internet makes culture come and go faster.

A lot of Urban Fantasy is actually paranormal romance which is less appealing to gamers. Its great for TV as it lowers costs . Also most of the shows don't have a lot of broad based appeal. I used to run Angel and Buffy near constantly, they were super popular settings but Buffy hasn't been...

I don't disagree though this was by the 1990's. If you are talking about Now I'd argue that most of what you have mentioned is basically no longer part of the American canon. I haven't seen the Wizard of Oz on TV in years and odds are a lot of even adult gamers have never seen nor will...

Game books first and foremost need to sell to the largest audience possible and most gamers just want cool stuff to play with Expecting all of gaming to share the preferences of the more academically inclined ones is counterproductive. Also OA was written two generations ago for a different...

I've ever seen this lady before as I don't give a fig about game journalism but she is easy on the eyes that's for sure.

This seems like a cool book though I doubt I'll use much of it.

SNIP Good Stuff by Lew Pulsipher Many times. A serious game needs serious names and nothing drags down a game like say It in Call of Cthulhu (before any movies mind you) than Dr. Cañyon Fodder." and sure it was a mediocre set of roles from an uninspired player, it wasn't fair to those of us...