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The Action! line is all about using more fuzzy / less concrete options to keep things moving. There’s usually a GURPS for any variation you want to go with.

The main tactical choice in DW is avoiding being ganged-up on. Since you split your defence score between your attackers, being out-numbered is very dangerous. That makes it potentially more tactical than contemporary D&D IMO. (still have the originals, plus the Serpent King books on my shelf)

I bough SotWW a little while back and have read the player's and GM's books. It's an interesting, relatively lightweight system. I would be very interested to hear actual play experiences, especially how GMs find the non-combat elements of the rules?

There is a new ‘retro clone’ of Magic Realms - Dragons Down. Much easier to get hold of, and the rules have been cleaned up, too.

Titan is amazing and pretty unique. You move around a strategic board, recruiting forces, and when army stacks meet you break out small boards with tactical maps on them to fight. I have never come across another game which encompasses the strategic and tactical in this way. The downsides are...

I still play Car Wars, but now with the 6e set. I still own Titan, and would play it again, but haven’t in a long time.

Smallville showed how to do that… (at least the heroes and villains part)

To me, this is where effects-based systems really shine. You can usually build anything and cloak it in whatever description you want or need. The question then becomes - do you want a character who can do what Iron Man can do, or do you want a character ‘like’ Iron Man which implies a stronger...

I would definitely use Sorcery if I wanted to bring in other powers-based systems like the divine and psionic powers books. It’s very robust for that sort of thing. I would also use it if I wanted a super-magician in a supers campaign. The thing I like about RPM is that it defaults to magic...

A read a while back about someone who did run a West Marches style supers campaign. They built a matrix of plots and enemies that connected to each character and would use that to spin up the session based on which players attended, pretty much spontaneously. Sounded cool…

Talking about magic, the classic system for GURPS is known as ‘spells as skills’ by many people. Here. magic is implemented through an extensive set of skills, each spell a separate skill. These are organised into colleges like ‘communication magic’, ‘fire magic’ and so on, and there are...

Oh sure (it’s my current #1 game); but it isn’t as modifiable as GURPS IMO as it isn’t as granular. There are fewer levers to pull or dials to twiddle.

There are many ‘generic’ systems, for sure. I have most of them since I love flexible engines. But I would agree that GURPS is top-of-the-pile for adjustability. Fate, Fudge, and Cortex Prime can all do as wide a range of genres, but they achieve that by having few rules / build your own rules...

There are a whole bunch provided and it just says to discuss with your GM if you want something different. That’s pretty much Rule 1 when making a GURPS character anyway…

This is the best typo I have seen for some time… Maybe those aliens like to snack on tasty crims… Love a Cornish Pasty 🙂 To the thread properly - I think world building is interesting. My most recent supers campaign was built around a single origin for all powers, which means players adding...

Talents are the solution to that problem. You can design a group of related skills which the bonus applies to.

Power Ups 10 basically offers a system for doing that, and Kromm is currently working on Power Ups 11 which will offer even more options for changing the skills system.

From 3e Core revised, p51, on Guns: “This is the ability to use any type of 20th-century cartridge-type gunpowder weapon. Add 1 to your skill for an IQ of 10 or 11, and 2 for an IQ of 12 or better. Modifiers: See Familiarity, p. 43. -2 for an unfamiliar weapon of a known type (e.g., .22-cal when...

Indeed, as @Staffan says, within the Guns skill description it says specialisation is mandatory, and there are other limiting factors like differences in Tech Level (so using a WW2 sniper rifle would be more difficult if you are used to a modern sniper rifle - and the older rifle would have...

Another plus for Savage Worlds SPC - the core system has a Dramatic Tasks sub-system which is spot-on for this sort of thing.