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snip Twilight 2000 4e is actually pretty straightforward; I found it perfectly cromulent. If you are looking for that setting, 4e is the simplest mechanics. 2e (available in PDF) and 2.2(also in PDF) are a more traditional mechanic. 4e is (att die)+(skill die) count successes on 6+ (all...

Yeah, a lot of people don't actually read the rules... as for Jedi Academy... never saw the sourcebook... only read part of one of the novels, too. That's also into the 2R&E era, and there was a lot of stat bloat...

Not so. A number of people don't, but they're not the main cast. Commissioner Gordon, Lois Lane, and Aunt Mae, for example. Main characters generally do.

Batman has to have at least two... rapid healing and massive pain tolerance. Otherwise, someone would notice that Bats got a broken arm the same time Bruce did...

Most WEG d6 system games have 12d for normies, 18d for PCs, for sum of attributes plus force/psi first die. Not all allow for improvement in attributes, either. This includes the three now at Nocturnal... D6 Space, D6 Adventure, D6 Fantasy. WEG's 8-att variant are 24d vs 16d, and have a 19d NPC...

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.