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Like many others, in our main group we take turns GMing and rotate through different games and campaigns. One of the players will propose some game/campaign they'd be interested in running, and the rest will either say yea or nay. (It's almost always all yeas.) We have no set time we'll...

All this has inspired/pushed me to (finally) do a quick and rough campaign seed write-up for our Broken Lands campaign! :) It includes how we use/handle magic, psionics, and other fantastical abilities in the setting. Characters use 4 Distinctions, Approaches, and Knacks (roles) as prime...

Burning Wheel is a system I'm curious about -- I've played a version of it with Mouse Guard but haven't tried the original. I will add it to the list of "Grade..." posts. :)

Heh, in a way I guess that would be some nice continuity, taking all the advertising they used to place in the old gaming magazines going and keeping that train rolling into the digital realm. :)

That could be, I've found that overall setup, whether characters have SFX that are engagement-relevant and interesting, and especially the engagement of the players during the encounter, can make a big difference in the theatre of the mind nature of the conflict. FWIW, we've had some amazing...

Hmmm. I'm starting to get the urge to make something like this my next RPG writing project... :)

As in you feel that they're paying for heavy ads/placement within DriveThru?

Just a quick note that, amazingly, the replies right now are just the exact right number such that nearly every single percentage is working out to a whole number with no decimals (the only exception is the % of those who have played), and even the GPA is exact to a single decimal place (at 2.5...

Thanks Tim! Huh, that's interesting... that in taking all the purpose-built versions and smushing them together into a single book as a toolkit has perhaps made it feel bland/generic. I guess especially if someone new comes to it and doesn't immediately recognize (and personally I don't think...

I do very much remember seeing plenty of adds for all the ICE games in magazines back in the day. That's part of what had me wonder if it would be less well known in the poll, whether it was only 'old guard' who would remember it (and would they be the only ones looking in this forum/thread :p)...

Silly me, in my last post I should have linked to this database of fan-made games: (Included on the list is "Giant Corporate Owned Comics Heroic Roleplaying" as an MHR clone if superheroes are your thing.)

That is one of the big missings right now with Prime, with only one prebuilt campaign being sold (Tales of Xadia) and the rest no longer available due to licensing reasons. Fortunately many people have posted their builds for all manner of genres, and hopefully the Spotlight books (each with...

For myself, I unabashedly love the Cortex Prime system. Pretty much every single game/campaign I think of running these days I would run in one of three systems, and Cortex Prime is one of them (D&D is another, for D&D games, with my own system being the third). I first gave Cortex Plus a try...

Have you played or run the Cortex Plus or Cortex Prime system? Have you played one of the many licensed games that were released, or did you pick up a system core book and run a campaign of your own? If so, what did you think of it? The original Cortex system (now called Cortex Classic) was...

After a second "Hate..." vote, we're back down to a solid C+. :) What has been cool to me that it hasn't (yet!) received any "Never Heard Of" votes. While Rolemaster is for sure one of the classics, I wondered if it had faded into the past or faded into the background enough that it was no...

(Pulls book of shelf) You're right, it is by Monte Cook. I hadn't realized/remembered that. :) (The setting really wasn't my cup of tea though, so I haven't looked at it in years.)

If there's one thing going for it, the high 'random' lethality factor of RM/SM kinda works in a cyberpunk genre game. Not that I played the rules however, so perhaps it didn't gel or was undertested as you note. I'd bought it to use as additional source material for the cyberpunk campaigns we...

Though it might have been one of the first RPGs I heard someone describing, D&D was not the first RPG I played. It would be three years later when one of my friends in my gaming group began running D&D, and even then I resisted. But as we got into it (merging with another group), I let that go...

Win/win/win/win here, I'm sure. ;)