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I found a relatively reliable source that was not yet out of Daggerheart in dead tree...

Yes, they are... they survived 1-3 years on a nuclear battlefield... AFTER the nukes fell.

You were misinformed. There are some very... risqué... RPGs out there, and most of them happen to be on itch.io, but it's just a games site... tho' it's a mix of PNP-TT-BG, PDF RPG, CRPG, and VG content.

There are more products industry-wide, but from more publishers and in more lines... fewer to go around. D&D, it was an explicit choice of the designers to limit to two-to-three books a year, and let the minor content be 3rd party. So, for D&D, hell yeah, much less 1st party stuff. Traveller...

It almost totally ignores the social aspects of the setting...

I discuss it with players. But there has been only one family of games where I was unhappy and I didn't have at least one co-suffering player... Dungeons and Dragons. AD&D, BX/BECMI/Cyclo, AD&D 2, D&D 3, D&D 5... All other cases where I was unhappy, at least one of the players was, too. Often...

it's worth noting that, as @Willie the Duck mentions, some existing games incentivize the wrong things for the movies and novels. I'd rather do any of the cheesy fantasy films of the 70's with Barbarians of Lemuria or The Arcanum than with D&D (any edition) or PF... Some would be good for...

Far more important - even a single campaign can change from one to anther level of exceptional. In Classic/Mega/TNE Traveller, PC's are only exceptional in motivation... NPCs, or at least significant ones, are explicitly to be generated by normal character gen. In fact, one of Marc's comments...

Sun Daggerheart One-Shot Skeletons: easy; wraiths hard. Victory.

Serial, generally a mix of 3-act and 5-act adventures, up to 5 scenes per act, usually 1-3. Tone varies by game.

I got it to the sunday virtual group... Wow! Ran the QS/QP module, with it's pregens, but full corebook rules use. A 15 minute aside on why the trees look like people... (They grow to mirror who was buried beneath)... and magic (Yeah, there's baseline magic everywhere...) I'm not a high pace...

My pacing is slower than I'd like. Partly, it's due to my psych meds and the resulting aphasia.

So many movies of the 80's felt ripe for an RPG treatment, specifically to fill in the clearly missing chunks of lore that a crawl at the front could have helped the plot comprehension immensely. Then again, there are a bunch that were just excuses to put women in skimpy outfits. Most of them...

WED Fallout Raided Deathclaw nest for eggs.

There are used copies floating about for about $60. You can't get my copy! Well, not for that low. I'll note that the RPG has notorious math and clarity issues. My house rules are essentially a major revision of the rules.

Initiative: It's not just baggage from D&D; it's baggage from tabletop wargames of the 1960s onward, as well, both the chits on map and minis wargames. Also, note that initiative isn't always for combat. Many TTWG use initiative for movement; in side by side, it's often Move in low to high...

Cool. So far, at least. Does it affect the design? If not, it's wasted, IMO. If I'm playing a cleric, or if the cosmology includes accessible planes, yeah, I want a nice precis, and, ideally, more to read later If it is included past a couple paragraphs, yes. Never had the beverage... but...

The only things it had going for it were nearly/partly nude folk, and some of the fights. It's far from the worst of the Sw&So subgenre... but it's not nearly the best.

Several different kinds of dice pools.... Roll a number of dice by scores, total, compare to TN (WEG Star Wars, D6 system, T&T, M!M!) Roll a number of dice by scores, count successes, compare successes to TN (WoD, Arrowflight 1e, Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard) Roll a number of dice by scores...

I've played several variant initiatives... As noted elsewhere today, FFG Star Wars has slots for each side, but no individual owns a given slot; their side does. Flexible within that. Jackals has different numbers involved, but otherwise works the same. players often discuss who goes when...