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As an older Briton who has recently played in paid games, mostly with Americans, what I've noticed most starkly is the generational gap. When dealing with youngsters, that gap is clearly COVID- and YouTube-influenced, in that the younger generation have grown up with Critical Role, at a time...

I'm not sure anyone here has talked about pacing and engagement in the context of player segmentation. In software games, where I work, there are many different systems of segmentation. At Ubisoft and Sony, where I used to work, they dug down beyond marketing spending categories, into the...

There's an interesting feature of supers games - particularly those with point build systems - that is best described as an escalating arms race between attack and defence. Which is not to say that other genres don't have this. Fantasy games such as PF, D&D, and Sword World, frequently feature...

Out of interest, does anyone know if later editions of GURPS Supers improved? And if so, how?

It was the Worlds of Wonder edition, IIRC. Though this was 40 years ago, and my memory is hazy. I recall it was easy to stack up lethal damage and my character was cut in half by a villain's minigun. I played GURPS a lot over the years, notably in a long-running Tékumel campaign. It's a system...

"We only play AD&D here!" they scream at the clouds...

Saved Mars with cannon fire.

A fair amount of its lore was incorporated into the Champions Online MMO, which had a Canada level.

Golden Heroes-style random character creation gets you to a character, but not necessarily a balanced one. Part of the challenge for players is rolling with what the dice give you. Granted, not all player groups are up for that. It's worth asking, what supers systems generate balanced...

I'm surprised no-one mentioned this explicitly Canadian superhero supplement:

Hero Wars and its sequel HeroQuest (the Mongoose Publishing one), both of which focussed on Greg Stafford's fantasy world of Glorantha, did a good job with rules for communities. Though these can be used for everything from clans to companion bands, to regiments, and particularly for warbands...

The current RuneQuest material is top tier when it comes to art. Startling and gorgeous. And anything by Katrin Dirim is incredibly evocative.

As a 61 year-old I'm only a handful of years away from retirement now. My first roleplaying experience was 42 years ago. It occurs to me that I'm going to be part of one of the first generations of retired pensioners to have a solid roleplaying background. The other day a friend and I joked...

Agreed. It's an approach that captures the awkwardness of some heroes, as misfits, even in a world full of them.

Which is fair enough. However, as someone who latched on to RuneQuest's world of Glorantha some 42 years ago, I've found that settings are incredibly important to me. Large chunks of my shelf space are devoted to setting books. (My Glorantha shelves are measured in metres!) Increasingly, I will...

Just one more thing I'd add. For me the biggest problem with getting a supers game off the ground is character generation. If your game involves any element of math, like Champions, you will need a group really willing to invest in the game to get traction. Even lighter game systems will require...

I'll just add that Aaron Allston's Champions supplement Strike Force contains two pages that are probably the most essential reading in all of roleplaying. In other words, his 'blue book' system. To be honest a lot of modern online roleplay, particularly via clients like Discord, does exactly...