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For me the franchise peaked with 3 Thunderdome, but I'm an old guy. Still, I enjoyed Fury Road and from what the OP wrote I will probably enjoy Furiosa too when it comes to streaming. I mean, it's not really possible to dislike big-budget post-apoc movies, even if they're flawed, right? Just...

As an unashamed Savage Worlds fanboy, I must point to the latest version of Darwin's World for that system. It's well fleshed out, with lots of post-apocalyptic specific rules and stuff added on. I can heartily recommend it.

It's no specific thing per se, like "I hate Advantage". It's more the way the heavy crunch is implemented - the crunch is applied in an off, weird way for the effects and play style I interpret the writers intend. I've been gaming on and off since the early eighties, and have gotten a taste of...

I don't play 5e anymore but GMed two long 1-20 campaigns. And looking back, I wish I had switched to a dedicated supers system after level 14ish. Neither monster abilities (boring at the best of times) nor the rules or combat system really work at the highest levels when the players become true...

OP isn't wrong, it is a multi setting, just as Faerun. But for me GMing Savage Pathfinder that's a feature, not a flaw. Having a known world with familiar cosmology, gods etc makes it easy to play campaigns with very different themes without having to invent the wheel.

I love the Old World, and there are so many things to like about 4e: great fluff and supplements from C7, amazing Foundry modules, etc etc. And has been noted, hilariously evil diseases - hello Toe Rot! But even with automating most of the crunch on Foundry, there are quirks at the core of the...

I would deal with it in the same way I deal with any other special stuff during character creation. Player: Oy, I want to play a diabetic character. Me: Ok, do you have a background explanation for your character being diabetic and not cured in this setting with high magic and real gods that...

I will play on Normal as usual, so I trust I'll do ok with just gear boni and a good stock of the plain drugs for most fights. But then again, towards the end of any game one can never be TOO op, right.

As to STR 60, I’m not aiming quite that high. But I’m still planning on hitting the drugs hard this playthrough, for the fun of it. ’Roided up drug fiend is not my usual type of char in any game 😄

Thanks for the replies re: melee. Yeah, I'm leaning toward using weapons, if nothing else just to have some variety and Blacksmithing fun. Fisting stuff is probably hilarious for a couple of hours, but it's a long game.

I've reinstalled the game + DLCs and plan to make another full playthrough during the summer. Shame to say I've only made one full playthrough before, despite sinking lots and lots, and lots, of hours into the game exploring every nook. That was with a semi-cheesy stealth Deliverer VATS build -...

My total prep time is pretty constant. But most of it is spent making and moving frames for overarching plots, developing fun NPCs with depth, and further nestle webs of conspiracy, mysteries etc - ie longer term stuff that is in constant change depending on the party's latest shenanigans. For...

I adore Andy Weir and see his books as great cultural acts. Not because he is a Nobel prize class stylist or literary inventor, but his books - PHM in particular - is glorious tributes to golden age sci-fi with a positive and optimistic tone that is sorely needed in this day and age. That they...

I would love something with the feel of FGU's Aftermath but playable without Excel and unlimited amounts of time.

It's fine as is. With alignment gone, the characters are about to be betrayed and chewed up by that ultra-evil gold dragon.

I doubt it's only starting keepers that aim for a loose simulation of an era rather than an exact period replica to the most minute detail. When I've GMed CoC I just do what I always do, make sh*t up, and my players had fun as usual without complaining about, say, that a walnut rifle stock on a...

What I enjoy reading: Phat heavy crunch tomes made out of whole trunks of dead trees. What I enjoy in actual play: GMing my own long campaigns using a light-mid crunch system with lots of room for GM fiat and on the spot improv. Hence, I only use Savage Worlds these days, but still enjoy reading...

Still have a few books left in my complete Thomas Mann stack, currently at the end of Doctor Faustus, good stuff. In my toilet library I'm currently rererereading Gibsons Burning Chrome as a porcelain throne warmup for yet another Necromancer pleasure trip.

In all systems I GM, it’s RP first, and then rolls may modify it a little bit.

For the impact it’s had on my gaming, probably Runequest 2ed core.