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Interesting... does BW use the same "single roll at the start of the scene" concept? Or is that a MG specific invention?

Ah great, thanks for the details! So cool that it existed, but not a good one to crib from. Though... one roll resolving all the scene's conflict isn't necessarily an issue as it reminds me of how Mouse Guard plays (and maybe Burning Wheel as a whole as MG is BW derived, but I have no...

Which is often the chicken/egg hurdle for new toolkit systems for their adoption or increase in mind/game share. Lots of examples can help there, as those examples can provide the "pretty close" base needed to nudge people towards using it. (Which is why the Cortex Prime Spotlights not...

I second PbtA or Cortex Prime or FATE. Also makes me think of The Dallas RPG, though I have zero real exposure to the rules so don't know if they were an actual good fit for the genre. Was also thinking of perhaps FitD with a kind of episodic structure, but the Agon suggestion might even be...

If only the licensing wasn't nebulous/borked right now, I would also recommend Cortex Prime for its strong narrative feel and customizable elements to fully suit your game/campaign's genre and tone. Back to FATE, there's also the three (sub)versions (Core, Accelerated, Condensed) and the...

Hmm, perhaps post them in/under spoiler blocks?

I concur that "truly dead" might be an unlikely scenario these days. Using an RPG-adjacent game, I'm part of a semi-active community of Renegade Legion fans, though the game in its heyday was never super large (especially to it's Battletech sibling) and it's been out of print for 30+ years...

Wake up, time traveled... again??!!

The Cold Clergy is an interesting idea!

Wait, Battletech doesn't make the list in Canada? Come on, 'mechs work better in cold weather! We gotta step up (pun intended) our game (also intended) here! ;) (Note, as I currently do not reside in Canada I guess I'm not really helping... :P)

I think it's unfortunate as well. I'm not privy to anything behind the scenes, so I don't know the finances it was/would've taken to at least bundle the existing PDFs and sell on itch or something, but supposedly there are new Cortex products in the works so time will tell. Also, to veer...

Unfortunately, the Spotlight settings (that were not full-on rule sets nor provided any additional rules, just settings/campaigns that assembled the pieces of the core book toolbox as appropriate for the particular spotlight) won't be getting a PDF or print release. If you were in the...

It is! The core book can be bought from Cortex Tabletop Roleplaying Game | Dire Wolf Digital, and there's a great full rules primer for Tales of Xadia available here, which includes the Challenge rules. The ToX primer is also valuable as Cortex Prime itself is very much a toolbox of options...

Oh I do love a good callback ... you sir win the internet today, paws down. :D

Using Cortex Prime's Challenges mechanic (introduced in Tales of Xadia) might work well here. It's not quite the typical scenario used for the mechanic, but it still ought to work. It is explicitly is round-robin, which avoids too much downtime for each player. Each character in turn creates...

Reverse aging vampire causes confusion.

Ah! OK cool, an i2i gen. :)

Woah... is this just asking it something like "First printing of the AD&D Player's Handbook done in the style of Studio Ghibli"?

Always a double thumbs and ear tufts up from me for industrious beaver-folk and lynxes! :)

If I'm going to step away from a strict silo/slot and/or a limiting "power expenditure" model, I generally am going to do so for all aspects of the game and go towards a more "narrative" system such as Cortex Prime or FATE. In that way, doing things with magic is handled much the same way as...