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When picking the system, my answer would absolutely be "yes". If you don't understand the difference between that, house rules, and the other two things you list, I have to conclude there are additional problems here. If you don't ask, how would you expect to know? (And more pointedly, with...

Though the Conan 2D20 game is pretty close to that.

That might be true. Its been long enough I probably just don't remember.

The one general exception is the teen-supers genre, where some visible advancement is almost always present over time. That's admittedly a special case, however, and your general point is sound. (That said, you can make some of that argument for any persistent episodic fiction. Most of them...

Just a note about one thing regarding GURPS (and this isn't a major issue, but it struck me as odd): for a game that tends to be pretty splitty when it comes to skills in most areas, its combat skills are surprisingly lumpy (at least in the core, I'm not going to speak of every add-on): Guns are...

I can perhaps talk a little bit about GURPS fantasy in general, or GURPS in general compared to Hero, but while I own GDF I've done nothing but read it fairly casually. The most basic think you have to understand about the two game systems out the gate is though they can look somewhat similar...

Was talk about that several years ago, but nothing apparently came of it. Edit: And as visible from the above, I'd completely forgotten the kickstarter and subsequent drama.

When done chronically, this speaks volumes.

Honestly, I'm not sure that the lack of success for Immortal had much to do with complexity; it was less complex in most ways than most of the White Wolf games (which it was pretty clearly inspired by) and plenty of them did well. It had two big problems a few little ones. 1. The compulsive...

Looking at this, the names are probably a coincidence, and notably, that book came out nearly five years ago now, so the line appears to be effectively moribund again.

Well, it kind of followed the Battletech/Mechwarrior pattern there.

That's the Pacesetter one, right? I thought I remembered a new version of that showing up a while back. Or was it Timemaster? (I gather the ownership of the Pacesetter material was one big ole mess...)

I'm admittedly speaking from old memory, but I seem to recall the failure chances for spellcasters were a bit high for a magic-fumble system (I also thought the mandatory randomness in character gen was a bit much, but I know some people are all over that...)

The current owners own both that and the 2e version, and sell them in PDF, but I hadn't seen any signs of any further material past what the McFarlands did for it (and to make it clear, nothing much in any of that material seemed to show any--questionable--elements past what you'd expect in a...

I'm assuming whoever has them is either sitting on them or wants something ridiculous for them?

Yeah, I've heard similar stories.

I'd be interested in an update to that if people could avoid losing look-and-feel. Bet the ownership on it is weird, though.

It--depends. The history of the third edition is fraught.

It has had three editions, and the second one got supplements galore.

Came here to mention this one myself. Fascinating setting, decent set of mechanics (as long as you have a decent tolerance for crunch), died too young in part because the owner just wasn't going to let it go to someone else.