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GURPS has a good system from a verisimilitude perspective, if crafting or inventing is something you want to make a focus of PC activity. It breaks down the act of invention into stages of concept design, prototyping, testing & fixing, and finally production. For simply creation of established...

Not from my campaigns but… The White Cloaks from Wheel of Time probably qualify. Maybe the Red Ajah too so both ‘sides’ have their own bad / good faction. Arguably the Inquisitors from WH40K also qualify since they are ‘saving’ people from demonic possession, or more accurately saving people...

I started with Red Box D&D, and it was pretty much the only RPG available in a small provincial town in the North of England at the time. Went all the way through to Immortals, though we never really played those rules and instead switched over to AD&D 1e. I also got into Dragon Warriors shortly...

@JohnSnow - there are whole families of RPGs which support great fantasy games and are nothing to do with D&D, some have already been mentioned. If you give us a list of what you would like a system to do, what style of game you are shooting for, we might be able to give you more options to...

One just landed recently after a successful crowdfunding campaign.

I read the compiled PDFs, rather than the online comic. Certainly that is still trucking and they are on arc three. I suspect it is intended to run as long as the artist and writer want to continue.

Anyone else getting strong Girl Genius vibes from clockwork Sorcery?

So, I am going to come back to the first suggestion from @schneeland - Savage Pathfinder would be an excellent choice in my opinion. I'll talk about Savage Worlds in general here but Savage Pathfinder is Savage Worlds with a number of 'combat spelunking' options pre-created for you. I'm not...

I saw you read my post in a thread on Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion, @Starfox. It’s a great system for supers role-playing in my opinion. I guess the main thing is: what sort of game are you looking for? The narrative games out there tend to be pretty focussed on a specific type of...

To put something extra in the mix - my favourite Gish is actually the Bard as a core. You are a full caster and have some flexible spells available to you though relatively few direct attacks; there are some sound-based spells in the core list but you can, of course, get more using Magical...

You are right and this thread has tipped me over to putting my money where my mouth is and becoming a supporter too 🙂

If anyone was considering Warline then it is now fully funded and the stretch goals unlocked so it is in it’s ’final form’; there are two days left on the campaign.

I think the point is that there is a group which has magic+martial as options but they are the same magic that a pure magic-user has and the martial that a pure martial has, versus a class that integrates magic and martial in a way different to what can be done by purists. The 4e Swordmage is...

What this discussion highlights to me is that games with strongly-typed class mechanisms mean that the archetypes offered can’t match the images in everyone’s heads, only some of them. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, and I have come to accept that when I play D&D I pick from the...

It says something when my spellchecker knows the word gish…

A big challenge with hybrid classes in most editions of D&D is the multi-attribute dependency. If you want to be competitive you need to buy up usually STR for melee and INT for your spells. There are potentially less expensive options - getting a high DEX can get you a fair way to Fighter /...

Speaking personally, I like flexible characters and play these in every system. As others have said, it’s about being able to contribute whatever the situation the group finds themselves in and I expect to play second fiddle to any specialist in the party. But I will be there backing them up...

There are several games that feature characters at this level of power. Have you checked out Amber, Nobilis and In Nomine for ideas?

I found this game, which is role-playing adjacent, and thought people might be interested. It’s a cool game which deserves more visibility in my opinion. Like a lot of people, I am sure, I have enjoyed some fantasy wargaming alongside my role playing. But these days I don’t have the time to...

We enjoyed it (my wife is not a gamer but she is a fan of sci-fi and fantasy), just finished watching the series. I had heard there was a twist so it became quite clear that there was something strange about Sugar and then it was just a question of which non-human he was. But my wife had no idea...