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    Crunchy Tactical RPG like 4e/pf2e but for Urban Fantasy?

    Sadly not, but here's the page for the campaign we played.
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    Crunchy Tactical RPG like 4e/pf2e but for Urban Fantasy?

    GURPS 4e will give you all the crunch you want, both in combat and character design. The Monster Hunters series of supplements give you character templates, magic, equipment and opponents for modern urban fantasy. It works especially well if set in Florida! That's the Florida portrayed in Carl...
  3. J

    Space: 1999 Coming From Modiphius

    Agreed. I was 13 when the TV series appeared, and have no nostalgia for it at all. It was nonsensical from the beginning, and never rose above that.
  4. J

    Is there any genre or theme that the TTRPG medium does not work for?

    Another sub-genre that is not impossible, but is hard: time travel.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Briefing, too secret to post.
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    Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words.

    The characters are in Kabul, Afghanistan, in September 1940. They were sent there because a member of the Afghan royal family suddenly switched to supporting Germany, after having been anti-German. Since they readily found out he has a magical effect on him, and the Cultural Assistant from the...
  7. J

    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    GURPS Occult WWII, India campaign: The Confederation of Mountain Kingdoms?
  8. J

    Is there any genre or theme that the TTRPG medium does not work for?

    Amber Diceless Roleplaying, actually.
  9. J

    There Can Be Only One: Best Old School Inspired Fantasy TTRPG

    Something I've never really understood: what's the motive for playing new games inspired by the style of the old ones? Why not just play the old ones?
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    Is there any genre or theme that the TTRPG medium does not work for?

    Psychodrama about the interior life of a single character is quite hard as a TTRPG. I managed it by having three players share control of a single character. They ended up playing the id, the ego and the super-ego, more or less.
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    Running games for pay as another income stream for TTRPG companies

    Doing that at scale is hard. You need lots of GMs, and they need organising, paying and supporting with material. Think about the availability of customers at different times of day, and the amount they'd be willing to pay, and full-time GMing starts to look like a low-paying gig economy job...
  12. J

    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Defeated Nazi helicopter commando team.
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    GMs: What Could You Use Right Now To make Your Life Easier/Better?

    What I'd really like is someone who can read books on history, culture and religion in multiple languages, starting with Japanese, Mandarin, and Sanskrit, and fish out the gameable details.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    An addition that might have some objective truth to it: Most Wiccans consider themselves less geeky than those who do Wiccan rituals in Klingon. Yes, this really happened.
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    Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words.

    Avalon has a rather fractured planar structure: all of the current populations have arrived through assorted portals from other worlds. The oldest known events are about 4,000 years ago, when giants, dragons and the fay were already present. About 3,500 years ago, a group of fay lords were...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Found tomb predating current population.
  17. J

    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Stabcon convention game, mixed kinds of D&D: Scenario faked by evil temple.
  18. J

    Does Your Campaign Have a BBEG? Does it Need One?

    Neither of the campaigns I'm running have a BBEG in the conventional sense. Nor do they need them.
  19. J

    Why does the BBEG always delegate?

    Things like this are why I prefer to avoid BBEGs as plot drivers.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Stabcon convention game, mixed kinds of D&D: Negotiations saved from Loki's children.
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