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Half-elf rogue or human sorcerer/psion. Slightly cagey, slightly socially distant from society, but with a strong core motivation.

Tiny D6 would be a great choice.

Some of it depends on mindset. There are some "rules lite" systems that are really just trying to pare down the "traditional" RPG experience by offloading work to the GM. Some "rules lite" systems are a reaction to some of the built-in, assumed standard operating procedures of the...

Seconded. Both Starforged and its predecessor Ironsworn fit your requirements to a T. I too struggled with Dungeon World. Ironsworn is partially based on DungeonWorld, but has a better, more interesting core mechanic, and adds some additional rules layers that make it more fun and easier to get...

QFT. If you ever find an RPG you like based on a related media IP property, get as much of it as you can, while you can, because it is absolutely guaranteed at some point that the licensee will lose their license and the product will disappear forever.

Hard to decide between Savage Worlds Deluxe core rulebook, the 3.0 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and Ironsworn: Starforged. I guess if forced to choose I'd go with Starforged. Could adapt that ruleset to almost anything imaginable and it would be both playable and fun.

Commenting on some tricks I used to manage dice interpretation --- I know The Alexandrian was highly critical of the overall setup of the dice spread and interpretation. (You can go back and look at his playtesting from several years ago if you care). And I can see his points to a degree...

Genesys offers a unique, fun, collaborative system for GMs and players who want to sand down and refinish the "traditional" RPG experience into something .... Less traditional without going fully in another direction. It absolutely assumes a group that is comfortable with breaking from a...

Whereas for me it creates a false . . . positivity? Sensibility? Expectation? . . . about the variability of task resolution. As a player you DON'T KNOW that your chance of success is always "70%", or at least you shouldn't. Situational modifiers should be part and parcel with good GM-ing, IMHO...

I've read somewhere else that you can easily convert GURPS to a roll-over system by setting a default target DC of 21 for everything, roll 3d6, and add your skill to get the end result. I'm not saying I'd love GURPS if someone actually did this. But it would go a ways in making me not...

But even then, if I as GM want to modify the difficulty, it's counter-intuitive. "I want to penalize this roll by 20%, because it's 20% more difficult than normal." Counter-intuitively, you either have to subtract 20% from the target, or raise the roll by 20%. If I want to make something...

For me, "Roll Under" systems make it massively more difficult to establish the difficulty of the task at hand as something that's objectively part of the "game world" and not a mechanical artifact. It's the big problem I always had with GURPS. It never felt like doing anything that happened...

I could easily run a fantasy action / adventure campaign for at least 2 years with nothing but the 208-page Savage Worlds Adventurers Edition core rulebook. It wouldn't even be that hard.

I live near Seattle. I can occasionally find decent deals on smaller venues for that price. For example, just looked it up, you can get general admission tickets for $35 to see They Might Be Giants in Chicago later this summer. But for bigger name artists, yeah, the days of a $60 ticket are...

Pretty much agree with most of the sentiment so far. It's only as expensive as you want it to be. At its "minimum viable baseline" of a PHB and a set of dice for a player, the cost-per-hour of entertainment value is massive. Despite having more discretionary income now than I've ever had in...

So to follow up on Fingertips by They Might Be Giants . . . . . If you've never heard the song . . . well, um, yeah. It's the epitome of a juxtaposition. But seriously . . . This is clearly some Star Wars RPG character's life story . . . . Everything is catching, yes Everything is...

So Particle Man really needs no introduction . . . He's just doing the things a particle can. Totally a villain or superhero, probably in a post apocalypse nuclear wasteland. I love the idea for Undone --- "If you want to destroy my sweater . . . Watch me unravel", I think it would be a...

Particle Man or Fingertips by They Might Be Giants. Undone by Wheezer For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield

Microtransactions are coming. Really, you should plan now to embrace this reality. The whole point of a digital VTT of their own is to monetize transactions. And I don't blame them for it. So, I'm a mid-40s GenX gamer who's way into TTRPGs, CRPGs, FPS games, and sports video games. I just...

My experience with D&D 3 / PF1 for 9 years was a long procession of watching players engage in these same kinds of "hijinks" for much the same reason --- they just wanted something interesting to happen. This was one of the major reasons that led me to look away from D&D in the 2010s. No...