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I think the intent is that the wizard uses pre-made formulae for their spells. Some have a bit of wiggle room (e.g. Chromatic Orb can deal damage of different energy types), but basically it's a matter of doing things in a predictable way and getting a predictable result. The sorcerer, on the...

I'll agree on Fate, Fudge, and Cortex – they're really more "game engines" or "game design kits" than actual games. But something like Savage Worlds is at least as playable out of the box as GURPS is.

Noted occult expert Sam Wilson breaks it down:

And that's perfectly fair. I was just pointing out that the prices have been going up gradually for quite a while now, and that it's unfair to compare the cost to what it was over a decade ago.

They haven't been $20 for a very long time. I'm not sure when they changed it, but I did find a thread from 2015 where someone was complaining about a price increase to $30, and they were told it was a special price increase just for #100 (which was also bigger) and after that it would go back...

Pet peeve: Athasian halflings aren't cannibals. They don't eat other halflings.

I do like the solution in TORG Eternity better, though you couldn't really transplant it as is without taking the whole system. In TORG Eternity, for one, Toughness isn't a stand-alone stat. It's Strength plus armor (there may be perks that affect it separately, but it's not a separate stat)...

Kr or Krona is the currency here in Sweden. So the man in question said he wasn't affected by rising gas prices because he always bought 200 kr of gasoline at a time, while being seemingly blissfully ignorant that those 200 kr would buy a smaller amount of gasoline each time as the price went up.

Reminds me of one of those "ask the man on the street" things in a newspaper back in the day, where the paper had asked people what they thought of the recent increases in gas prices (this was back in the early 90s, IIRC). One of the respondents had answered "It doesn't affect me because I...

Beam Weapons was definitely distinct from Guns, and I think Gunner was as well. But in general, I think 4e has more atomized skills, with 3e leaning more on optional specialization (which was much more generous: +5 within specialty in exchange for -1 outside it, with 4e essentially being +1/-1...

Others have already mentioned using 2d10 instead of 1d20 in Masterbook. Some other changes are, off the top of my head: Dexterity split into Dexterity (hand-eye coordination) and Agility (full-body coordination). I think Spirit might have been renamed as well but I could be misremembering...

Depends on how you cook'em.

If I was remaking GURPS and keeping more-or-less the same structure, I'd start by combining a lot of skills. For one thing, any skill that's almost always used alongside another skill should just be the same skill – e.g. Electronics Operation (Medical) should just be part of rolls for Physician...

GURPS has separate skills for Artillery, Beam Weapons, Guns, Gunner, and Liquid Projector (flame throwers, sprayers, and such), with numerous mandatory specialties within each of these skills (e.g. Guns (Pistol), Guns (Rifle), Guns (SMG), and Guns (Shotgun) are all separate skills defaulting to...

Back in 2e (I think this was as early as Dragon Kings, but I could be misremembering and can't be hedgehogged to check), the notion was that at some point some kind of weird beings had created some kind of metaphysical connection between the elemental planes and the sorcerer-monarchs which was...

I don't know if I'd call it "unmatched". There are lots of universal games these days. Chief among them is probably Savage Worlds, but you also have FATE for those who like their rules light, Cypher System for those who like it light in another way, or Genesys for those who like funky dice...

I know that back in the 80s, there was a Swedish translation of Chill plus a few adventures and a sourcebook, called Chock. Recently, a new version of Chock using the same logo was released over here. As I was never a big fan of the original, I haven't kept up with info on it so I don't know if...