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By alien invasion I mean straight-up 'War of the World', 'V', Battle for LA' types, not occult-style such as CoC or Tribe 8, or supers. Seems an under-populated genre.

Has a strong CoC Dreamlands feel.

I run a long-term group, and I dont use D&D. How I handle this sort of thing is to make a hidden roll against the villain's social skill to determine how well he 'read' the PCs. If he's successful, I target the player, not the PC. After years together, I know the buttons to push. Watch the...

Looking over (and Googling) the list left me cold. A lot of the same, really, plus the usual assortment of second editions. I would have voted for the Pirate Borg setting, but I guess it doesn't count as a new release anymore.

Change settings, and in each setting, tailor the group premise for existence to the setting. For example, the last five campaigns my group has been together (4 years real time): 1) Fantasy 2) Occult-hunting while serving as a detachment for the Chief of Scouts (intelligence officer) for the...

We literally finished Monograph #339: Return of the Ripper (Chaosium, 1986, Call of Cthulhu 3E) tonight, using the Aces & Eights system. set in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1889.

Reverse it. They have the Golden Backscratcher of Endless Potential, and are fleeing the Red Death Wallaby cultists who wish to take it by force. they wreck on the island, and must dodge zombies and Red Death hunting parties while desperately gathering the means to survive and escape.

Man, no substance for all but ToC 2E. At this rate, new RPGs will be printed on Post-It notes.

The VTT, MapTool for a decade, Roll20 now. Adobe reader. Wikipedia. Google. Pinterest.

We have been sexism-free at my table for years. Although we have no female players, either. Its a lot easier to combat sexism in those circumstances.

Sounds like a personal problem for the player.

I say 'No'. I usually follow it up with why, but that is just a courtesy.

Which is a system failure, IMO. But using a d20 system, there's really not many variables you can plug in. But in systems using a count-up system and weapon range issues, you can really start to make player choices mean something. No one load-out will be viable.

Yep. Which is exactly my point. :cool:

Doesn't have to be that crunchy. But yeah, SW is just not up to much in the way of personalization.

Don't offer min/maxed options. There's no perfect firearm. Some are better for CQB, some for medium range, some for long, some for precision. Everything is a trade-off.

I skipped over SJ when it first came out, but I did run a Sundered Skies campaign (which degenerated into 'hunt sky whales and buy real estate'). I am now casting about for new settings, and I see that material is being produced again. Is SJ just 'piracy among the stars', or is there some depth...

I usually include a talent (or whatever your system uses) for Favorites. A lot of firearm purchases are based upon user bias, not hard statistics. Ergonomics, and belief, real or not, in a given caliber heavily influence choices. So this talent gives a small bonus to a PC using his preferred...

I used MapTools for years. Its good, and free, but the learning curve is much steeper than Roll20, and the support is less.

I'm older than you. I find that my retention is fine, I need readers, but for me, the big change is my patience for new systems and settings has declined sharply. I look at a new scenario, and if it doesn't have a concise summary of the plot up front, I won't bother. Sloppy maps? Trash can...