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GURPS Atomic Horror seems on the money. The genre in general is fairly pulp so I could probably run it with Savage Worlds, personally. Maybe leverage the Horror Companion for some additional focussed advantages or procedures.

Looking at the question of ‘what to start with’ specifically, my suggestion would be Savage Worlds: The rule book is easy to get and pretty concise by the standards of flexible systems It can be played in a fairly ’traditional’ way while offering tools for more scene-based resolution of...

I love flexible systems. In my mind there are maybe three or four groups. Toolkits are the most involved to get set up, typically they are a collection of rules and mechanics that you can use to build up a game to exactly match your desires. I put Fudge and Cortex Prime in that group...

Smallville, Leverage, Marvel Heroic, and Firefly are the big ones made with Cortex+. Unfortunately as they were IP based they are no longer available (not even in PDF). Its big strengths are completely customisable stats and skills (to put the focus on whatever you feel is key to a game...

Cortex is similar to Fudge in my opinion - it’s closer to a collection of mechanics and suggestions on how to use them than it is a game you could just sit down and run. It does require a lot more pre-work to get to the table than a genre flexible system such as Savage Worlds but it has some...

These are the kinds of ‘problems’ I like, personally. As @Thomas Shey comments there are different flavours and strengths and weaknesses built into flexible systems so the are not equally applicable to all scenarios. So talking about flexible systems and how they may apply to these more niche...

Another vote for Cortex Prime, because it has good mechanisms for handling character relationships, including animosity, in a constructive way (as shown in Smallville originally). Alternatively, a system with a strong focus on relationships is Hillfolk by Robin Laws. That focuses on petitioning...

That says OpenQuest to me, or a similarly flexible system like Fate.

I didn’t read the linked article in detail, just skimmed it. Nuanced success systems are a good thing, in my opinion, but they can go too far. Genesys actually has three axis of resolution, as there is success / failure, bane / boon, and triumph / despair (might be misremember the names on...

As others have commented, pretty much all of Hasbro’s product is produced in China, so they are going to be hit hard by the tariffs even if WotC can avoid most of them with their US printed books.

I suspect the biggest risk to WotC at this point is that Hasbro goes down and takes WotC with it.

Burning Wheel has multiple meta currencies which are used to track the development of characters. One is generated through achieving skills successes, while another is generated by failures. You need both to develop your skills and the intention is to push players to have their characters try...

GURPS matches that description quite well. The bell curve means the early part of learning tends to be more impactful than later points in a skill (though high levels of skill do help you mitigate penalties), and increases also cost more as you add points of skill. There are techniques which...

I like flexible systems so I can cover a wide range of things. For eight books total, I would probably go with: SWADE core Fantasy Companion Sci-fi Companion Horror Companion Super Powers Companion GURPS Characters GURPS Campaigns GURPS Powers With those, Savage Worlds + Companions would cover...

While I agree (as a consumer) I would also presume that people will only have so much discretionary spend. So they may choose to back only two projects out of three that they would have otherwise backed. Those third-place choices will start to suffer and we may see more niche products and...

I was thinking more along the lines of: if your distribution hub was in the UK (for example) then tariffs would only apply to the rewards destined for the USA. Rewards going to other countries would not be impacted.

Is there any benefit in shifting the default distribution hub to somewhere outside the USA? Then product with a final destination other than the US won’t pass through the tariff zone. I recognise this would increase the logistical effort and associated costs but might that at least be economic...

Our group is not adversarial in the slightest. We’ve all been playing for decades, including playing together for at least 20 years as the current group stands. We have multiple GMs in the group so people will point out slips of memory when they come up, but that isn’t adversarial or chiding in...

I answered ‘yes’ but the answer is more like ‘it depends’. Which isn’t a no… Where psionics are in-genre they clearly need to be there. GURPS Psionics was mentioned already and it is a great set of psionics rules, very evocative of psionics in fiction (especially Julian May’s Galactic Milieu /...

To the OP question, Savage Worlds’ Dramatic Task system is an excellent tool for situations like this. I would probably run it as a four-step challenge, with the first round representing preparation, the second infiltration, the third achieving the specific aim (e.g. accessing a computer or...