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I’m ok with re-rolls costing XP. Makes them a big deal rather than a frequent event.

Full reveal has been made now, it’s a West Marches style campaign with three sub-groups, using 2024 D&D

GURPS 3e took two swings at Supers in the course of that edition. V1 was a train wreck, v2 was a lot more usable. 4e supers is more difficult in some ways, as the interlock of systems is much tighter in 4e. So there are more and stronger undesirable consequences to pushing the GURPS engine to...

The Savage Worlds Horror Companion has a module for ‘playing monsters’ which uses the super powers rules behind the scenes to balance up the abilities of vampires, werewolves and so on. A good effects-based supers system can do pretty much anything within its resolution

In my opinion GURPS 3e Psionics is one of the best psi-focussed games I have ever played. The system of power and skill with things like telekinesis, ESP and so on as separate areas of power gave lots of depth for customising Psionic characters. Scanners is one if the reference works for GURPS...

This is very similar to my feelings, and why Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion is my personal favourite system. For me, it successfully threads the needle between tangible and flexible definition of stuff in a supers context. In my opinion and experience the core rules are solid, and provide...

I have three main options in my library, and which I would use would depend on how I wanted ‘domain play’ to feature. Savage Worlds has a simple ‘base of operations’ system, which has tailored implementations for different genres including fantasy, supers, sci-fi, and horror. The PCs can have...

Regular cards or custom decks? 🙂 Regular perfectly fine with me. Custom decks are interesting as they also are basically a randomiser with a built in look up table. They are more tricky than custom dice in my opinion, as it’s easier to get a dice printed than a deck of cards (in the UK) so...

There are third parties who will print stuff for you to your design. It’s very cost effective. I had some custom tokens created to track statuses in an RPG and the cost was pennies each.

Nothing, I was backing Thomas that Champion’s isn’t a physics emulator.

It really isn’t. The basic unit of value is 1d6 damage which has a standardised point cost, and pretty much everything flows from that. It is extremely ‘gamist’ in my opinion.

I’m ok with them personally. They allow you to basically put a look-up table directly on the dice and, when used effectively, they speed up resolution in play. Access to the dice has been a potential issue in the past, but with 3D printing now widely available that no longer has to be a...

There are five Dungeon Fantasy bestiaries, and four Nordheim bestiaries. GURPS is pretty well served these days.

There seems to be two pretty distinct groups of supers games these days. There are pretty firmly narrative games where the ‘power’ of a character measures their ability to drive or influence the narrative with their chosen skill set, irrespective of what the skill set is. These games seem to...

Savage Worlds is my favourite system. I would put it at a similar level of crunch to 5e, but it uses its crunch better in my opinion. It’s great for an action-adventure feel and it has good support for a wider range of activity than many other systems with good rules for chases, generally...

When 3e came out, I was probably a decade away from the last time I had played D&D (2e as it happens, through I had probably played more BECMI or 1e at that stage in my D&D ‘career’). We moved away from 2e to Rolemaster and GURPS as our main game systems. I would have probably heard about 3e on...

One of the starting options in Savage Rifts is a dragon hatchling… In general, this concept is only tricky in level-based systems where it wasn’t baked-in from the very beginning. Point based systems like GURPS or HERO handle this effortlessly. In one campaign we played using GURPS, one of the...

That’s an interesting point - didn’t Jeremy say he was working on a full campaign world? And we now know series 4 will feature a new world… Clearly Jeremy joining couldn’t have been the start of this venture (too recent) but it could easily have been in train when he joined and he has taken...

That mechanism sounds very similar to how interpersonal scenes will be handled in The Broken Empires. I wonder if they are both drawing inspiration from a similar source (The One Ring was a stated influence for TBE).

I have a dedicated gaming room, so tend to host one of our groups, whether I am a player or the GM. In my other group one of the players is a landlord and he bought a small house just to run games in… so that group plays there unless he is unavailable for a session, at which point we tend to...