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I didn't say confront the antagonist, but the horror. Even a survival game needs a credible threat of meeting the zombies. In a game where the PCs need to investigate the horror, this is a greater imperative. Perhaps I should've said "interact" with the horror.

It's extremely hard to scare players. The best you can hope to achieve is to worry them about their PCs not accomplishing their objectives, or harassing NPCs the players come to care about. Games like the ones McGibster cites use mechanics to this effect. Give the PCs a selection between two...

Broomstix or Kids With Brooms. I would add Sorceror or Unknown Armies.

How does this apply to the ogre, especially if the players don't know one is lurking up ahead?

I'm interested in whether you think this goal clashes with "be a fan of the PCs" - or if the latter is important at all in your eyes.

I'm OK with this setup, for a couple reasons. First of all, as a player, I don't know how I would ever find out that meeting the ogre was inevitable. Why would a GM brag about it after the fact? Secondly, the setup is not an automatically antagonistic reaction between GM and players. Or between...

Talk with your players. Talk with your GM. Say what is working and what isn't. Say what you'd like to happen. Dancing around things in character wastes time no one has in abundance.

Do recipes converted from imperial measurements to metric round things off to manageable numbers, or are there calls for like 37.2mls of olive oil?

There is still some conversion required to switch within non-temperature metric units. I've never seen anyone measure anything in hectounits - and don't get me started on deci vs deca. It's like you need to know which steps to avoid! In honesty, I think it's easier to use the imperial system...

The Jedi should be barred from teaching anyone.

Skills and ability scores are redundant.

Savage Worlds has a ton across different genres, although the experience mechanism is not quite what you are looking for. Actually outside of D&D there are few that get you explicitly from novice to looking at retirement - and in a lot of games, including Savage Worlds, your characters start out...

For me the best part of the OTU over the years is how the likelihood of gas giants to have rings has steadily risen.

Combat is by far the most important thing in D&D. It is the only subsystem of the game that has more than one layer of complexity (hit points plus what is essentially a skill-check mechanism for hitting targets). To your main point, a good design does focus its rules on the core activity of the...

Night's Black Agents. Jason Bourne vs Dracula.

I know Ars Magica was translated into Russian, but I have never seen a game that originated there.

Poronkusema!

Convergence for Delta Green has the greatest reveal of all time. Orient Express for Top Secret was a very flexible toolkit for running missions aboard trains.

I do see some games reusing the "example of play" framed as a dialog between players and GM. That's another way to present the dungeon crawl structure.

I was intimating that a PC can "remember" owning one without having actually acquired it.