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Oh, I was talking specifically about the years before Ogun when she was Sprite and Ariel. (Yeah, that's the ticket... ;))

My group had success with a superhero game using the Fate Accelerated rules mixed with the Venture City (Fate system game) rules. I liked the Fate Accelerated/Fate system for the superhero genre over other systems because: Everyone is capable of doing the superheroic things you see in comic...

We play Codenames with my 8 year old and it works well. There's also Codenames: Pictures (Same premise as Codenames but there are odd pictures instead of words.) that remove any vocabulary hurdles that even younger kids have. Two Rooms and a Boom...

It reminds me of the Heritage tables from L5R. I always enjoyed rolling on those for a little added inspiration for my character that I wouldn't have included otherwise. "My character's married? Hm. I never really considered that. Let's see how to work that into my backstory."

Absolutely! I would readily put a skill challenge into a 5th Edition game.

Thanks for the suggestions! The GM who wanted to run the AC game never actually ran it. Our group put our roleplaying on hold for the time being due to limited availability but if he ever dusts off the idea, I'll pass the recommendations along!

Anecdotal as it is, my experiences with skill challenges in 4E is that they played infinitely better when kept behind the screen and playing them 'above board' sucked the life out of them by turning them into a series of dice rolls and spoiled invest in the narrative.

If the party is not familiar with the antipaladin and he isn't obviously an antipaladin (e.g., armor adorned with his evil god's symbol, palling around with gnolls, etc.) he could band with the party for some reason. They could help him get through a dangerous portion of the ruins. Or he could...

Typically settings draw me in and systems keep me. I love Star Wars, so I'll check out any version of Star Wars that comes out. But if the system isn't to my liking, I go with a system that I like instead.

In my experience, letting players contribute is an excellent way to get buy in from the players. In the last game I played in I was a cleric and the GM let me design the hierarchy of the church. I don't think my additions majorly changed his plot but it made me much more invested in my...

You could take death off the table as the only consequence from combats. Replace it with being captured, getting injured or wounded, indebted to the victor of the combat, etc.

For me it's the glorious wild surge table.

I had a friend like that. He would follow the other characters around until it was time to roll some dice to stab a monster or check his skill. But he wasn't interested enough to prioritize gaming over the rest of things in his life. Since he was our friend and was fun and non-disruptive in...

My preference is to continue the session as long as two players show up. For those who don't show up their characters are on a side quest if there's an easy way to write them out of the session. If the group is at a point where the character couldn't reasonably go off on a side quest (e.g...

Certainly the Big Lebowski for my group with Firefly as a close second.

Yeah, I certainly see what you mean. I imagine you could find one version of Batman/Gotham City that everyone was familiar with. It's hard to imagine a gaming group who hasn't seen the Christian Bale Batman movies. (But they might not match your vision of Gotham City.) I haven't noticed...

For what it's worth my friends and I had a Fate campaign featuring the homebrewed sidekicks of heroes from Sentinels of the Multiverse (think Young Justice in the Sentinels setting). Two mortal characters had aspects that captured Batman's being-prepared-for-anthingness. The Robinish character...

Very cool idea! If you get a group of new players together I would ask them how they feel about reading nine pages for homework. If they're cool with it, give them the reading assignment. If they're not, proceed anyway and let the players rely on their individual concepts about Gotham City to...

The various editions of D&D (2nd-5th) wins with the various editions of Star Wars (d6, d20, SAGA, FFG) as a close second and L5R on its heels.

That is until they publish my homebrewed AAAboleth monster! (I also have a Famous Original Scorching Rays spell in the works.)