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Depending on what you wanted to emphasise in it, Pendragon/Paladin might work. The former would probably work better as some editions include PC magic users and isn't as focused on Christian knights. It would work quite well imo for a party trying to expand "civilisation" into the wilderness...

Masks (preferably M&M, if it's not too D20 for the OP) or some other superhero systems where characters of very different power levels exist and interact seem like good options for FR. For Dark Sun, Moddiphius' Conan 2d20 game seems suitable. It would be even lower magic than D&D Dark Sun, but...

Babylon on Which Fame and Jubilation are Bestowed might do some of that (it's around the time of Hammurabi, so hundreds of years after Sumer and Akkad were more than history). Edit: And I've also remembered Zenobia, which is distinctly later but has more emphasis on the Arab world.

What rules set I'd use would depend on the focus of the game. A game about trying to advance your status as petty nobles in the court of Louis XIII is going to want more rules about social status, fashion, relationships and factions and less on hitting enemies with an axe; a game about Viking...

You probably can find something about how "Frankish" architecture was adapted to the middle east in the Crusader states. It included many things that were of local design, but with some typically European additions and modifications. So, pick a tropical architecture that you like, identify parts...

Swords of the Serpentine. I think it's the first game to really combine all the different ideas that have been coming out over the last decade or more (since the end of the D20 glut and the rise of various innovative new concepts). SotS has combined a number of ideas that have appeared elsewhere...

We're still playing the BoL and HQ:G games I've mentioned earlier in the thread, but last night we rolled up characters for a Mongoose Traveller 2nd edition campaign that one of the regular players (and only occasional GMs) wants to run. My Professor of Engineering (455DF6! with 3 skill ranks in...

Most of the earlier material was set in 1615-1620. So the Lunar Empire controlled Sartar, Prax and Pavis and was trying to advance couthwards into the Holy Country. Since then we've had the death of the Holy Country's leader and a civil war in that land; Pavis has been captured by an alliance of...

YGWV - Your Glorantha Will Vary. Whatever you do with Glorantha. it's your setting once you start playing with it. There have been several parts of canon that I've disregarded, modified or used for a different purpose in my time. For a starting adventure, I'd say Apple Lane if your campaign is...

Honestly, I don't think I'm the person to ask. I've been playing Runequest and using Glorantha since the 1970s so I really can't judge properly how good it would be as a place to start with Glorantha. Probably not the best, thinking about it. The Glorantha Sourcebook that came out for 13th Age...

So, at it's most basic Heroquest is an opposed roll system using 1d20 where you try to roll less than your ability but more than your opponent's roll. If you roll your ability exactly that's a critical success; if you roll more than ability that's a failure; if you roll a natural 20 that's a...

I think it was 5th level where a 1st edition AD&D Magic-User surpassed the number of spells that the greatest wizards of the Dying Earth could memorise. Though I suppose if people really want D&D magic to be straight out of Vance ('s Dying Earth is assumed), then they'll be happy to have the...

We're now on a regular schedule of playing online twice a week with alternating games. The game I'm running is Barbarians of Lemuria in the Warhammer world, running a trading ship (very honest, pay no attention to those goods in the hold) between Esatalia, Tilea, Lustria and Araby. They've...

The systems I'm familiar with that have options for one-roll combat resolution do take character factors into account and give GM advice that includes not making Victory or Death something you should make the stake for combat. There are consequences for losing, but it's not as if they expect you...

While I would also recommend MgT2, I think Pirates of Drinax would be a very large project to start with, and it also might not be to every group's taste (lots of politics, space battles, and undercover action, and it can be a bit much for players not familiar with the setting). If your players...

Pretty well, I thought (my players enjoyed it). I let the players make normal BoL characters with modifications for different homelands than in the BoL rules. Non-humans - I had one dwarf - got an extra boon and flaw. The NPCs I adapted based on whatever career they had and how far they'd...

I completed the Barbarians of Lemuria scenario we were playing over Zoom a couple of days ago. We'll be playing some more this weekend.

If anything, I'm more inclined to try something out that's new. There are plenty of existing systems I like, but if I never try anything new then I won't find more. And I'd certainly rather try something new than a system I've already tried and disliked.

Does the Murderhobo race dislike how it's portrayed in videogames? If so, shouldn't their opinions on why the perspective the game takes on them be considered? And, since there isn't a Murderhobo race to be offended but there are plenty of monstrous races that stand-in for real ethnic groups...

Skin colour is one thing, but also identifying humanoids by describing them the way 18-20th century racists described ethnic groups other than "Caucasians" is hardly any better, and that's what is still going on. When you then declare those humanoids generally evil, that's where it really starts...