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Rowling doesn't need more of my money, but the school in Harry's 7th year is tailor-made setting for a game.

00 - create a new table and roll on that. My pick is the Alvin Maker stories in a fictional early USA with psychic powers. Steve Jackson Games announced a GURPS title for it decades ago but it never happened.

And Loren would have known - as a part owner of GDW, he is one of the fathers of Traveller.

Several companies prospered by publishing d20 titles and using the profit to fund other lines: Green Ronin & Atlas Games come immediately to mind.

After the game I am a lot like George Costanza and the comeback: I think of great things I should have done.

Runner up: The GM's job is to create situations, and the players' job is to have their characters figure them out. Winner: If there is a problem, talk about it at the table. There are no awards out for most in-character performance at a gaming session.

I played the original as a tween and it definitely made an impression.

I used it for a pulp one-shot, to good effect.

Pretty sure it was G2.

Offhand, I would say you focus on family/known associates you can interview; if you have the ability to track a ship, its whereabouts; if the target is a thief, where stolen valuables are exchanged for things. Watch Andor and root for the ISB :) Intercept transmissions, find patterns from...

-can a bounty hunter bring in the clone of a target? -is all I got rn

There is a GURPS Traveller book about Bounty Hunters you can mine for information.

I think the common thread of both wargames and board games leading to RPGs is investing your tokens with a personality if you play them often enough: "this soldier with the bent barrel has made it across North Africa, Sicily, and Italy!" Someone else - I wish I could recall who, possibly Greg...

A GM who has taken time to familiarize herself with the setting lore (whether by creating it or absorbing it) can smooth over the edges of where the lore runs out. An example might be creating a new mercenary company on the fly in the Battletech universe: having seen enough of them, she can make...

This dovetails nicely with the thread about rules not being important. If your game is about PCs doing X, the rules you include should reinforce the ability of PCs to do X. It's not a fair knock on D&D to say it doesn't run heists, since we don't typically turn to D&D to scratch that itch. Nor...

Good rules are reliable, in the sense that players who know them acquire some predictive control over the actions they attempt. If I have discovered through play that my warrior tends to best a skeleton in combat about half the time, I should realize pretty quickly that facing five of them alone...

Can any recommend an adventure in which the party must get from point A to point B while being pursued? Can be any genre.

Several Gumshoe games have a Network ability with which you make contacts who can provide things your PC lacks. I think there is a notable distinction between contrivance and setting. Anything that happens before the start of play is the latter - as are events which will happen regardless of...

If I rule is cool I suspect the group generates scenes in which it's useful.

Grim Tales was OGL as opposed to d20 license. I don't think it had advanced classes like d20 Modern did.