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Sounds great; wish I could play it with you. I strongly recommend using the Without Number fusion you spoke of as your engine. It's OSR style works well with the megadungeon concept, and it has the genres you need well-established. If you have access to it, the excellent Monster Overhaul has a...

But if the rules don't matter when you don't want them to, then why place any value on what's in the book versus what isn't? We can always stipulate that you can change the rules whenever you want (and I think we should), but if that's the argument, then there's no point in talking about the...

Ok, but "streamlining" is another way of saying, "simplifying".

Makes sense to me.

I have to ask: is there a driving need to always follow the cultural zeitgeist? And by this I mean that I think SJG is doing the right thing with this revision, as opposed to a new edition as you suggest. Small updates, mostly to visuals and some language is all that they should do IMO. GURPS...

I do wish that not every new edition of every game didn't make a point to talk about how much they've simplified the system.

Best play would have avoided a single PC not designed for solo melee hurtling into combat alone, which would have probably prevented the other characters from getting themselves killed too, so I'm going to have to disagree.

I picked up all the 2e books in pdf from a Humble Bundle a while back.

Yup. I can't see another explanation. The whole thing seems self-inflicted at least to some degree.

That 1e cover is very memorable, almost as much as the chaos spawn so many of my PCs devolved into!

I'm not saying lore and story aren't appreciated (they very much are), but the mechanics are IMO far and away what most RPG supplements are going to be used for in terms of reference. That's hard and valuable work and shouldn't be discounted.

I mean, that's the core of what you need for hard utility. Don't sell yourself short!

Yeah, I really don't understand the context under which the wererat event occurred. What was the reasoning for making the strike at all, let alone how it was done? Seems to me the rogue put themselves into a very disadvantaged position, and then the party followed suit.

For the record I have no issue with text readability here.

These are wonderful! Really looking forward to picking this up once it hits DriveThruRPG (not in a position to back the Kickstarter at the moment).

Well, there has been talk of using the comic book model to determine what Age is what. The 80s are pretty early in TTRPG history, so I can imagine seeing it as the Golden Age. To my mind that model makes it the Silver Age though. Golden Age would be mid-late 70s to very early 80s.

For me it was when I was with my first group and playing a game I love for the first time. There was a sense of wonder and excitement I just don't have anymore.

Oh, I very much wish WotC was far less of a guiding lodestone in the industry. I just don't think there's anything to be done about it, and complaining, (as I've learned from personal experience) just leads people to put you on ignore and ban you from internet forums.

But they also have all the connections and all the marketing money. No one can compete with them, so maybe it's better just to discount WotC and D&D entirely beyond their inspirational role.

Assuming I get to have the entire game and not just the corebook, it is in no particular order: Level Up, for the modern fantasy experience. Shadowdark, for the old school fantasy experience. Stars Without Number, for the science fiction experience. Lots of stuff right under these...