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But isn't the point of worldbuilding to make something exciting? Or at least part of it? Maybe Waterdeep has galleons docking there? Which would be anachronistic, but that's hardly out-of-bounds for D&D and FR.

Maybe a wizard did it! Or a god.

What, for messing with Sam Gamgee?

I'm not sure how precise "measure" is being used. But one way to judge a "golden age" for creative production is by the quality of what is produced.

I'm not sure why we would judge a golden age of RPGs by reference to the commercial success of a few RPG companies. Nor by, say, the publication of adventures and supplements. Some great RPGs by their nature don't rely on pre-authored scenarios.

Some novels are well written. Some novels are poorly written. All novels, though, are written; and all (or near enough to all) aspire to be well written, or, at least, engaging to the reader. The novel that sets out to be boring, a bad read, poorly written, etc is a pretty rare exception...

Anything can be "an event that happens in the game". That doesn't tell us whether or not it is railroading.

That is how 4e Dark Sun handled it (and also gladiators): templar is a theme, not a class. From p 34: A theme embraces characters of almost any class. For example, many templar characters are warlocks, but a templar who serves chiefly as a commander of the sorcerer-king’s troops might be better...

Marvel Multiverse is d666. I haven't read or played it - but from what I've read about it, it's a pretty conventional RPG design. Marvel Heroic RP is less conventional - some people compare it to Fate, although I don't personally think they're as close as is sometimes mooted. I think it's a...

Marvel Heroic RP, not Marvel Multiverse.

You didn't get Civil War X-Men?

100%. The Episode Book has some episodes with interesting supernatural elements (The Blue Cloak, The Crimson Bull, The Rattling Forest) but there's scope for more like them; and also for more non-supernatural but still appropriate stuff: eg there's no enchanted castle, no maze garden/forest, no...

Well, I'm not sure that Prince Valiant is well-suited to that sort of thing, but more Episodes would be great.

Have you looked at Blades of the Iron Throne? https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/114920/blade-of-the-iron-throne-b-w-edition Because I never had a copy of TRoS, I don't know how close BotIT is to it. Though I think it moves from d10s to d12s? (Which I know some people think is a major...

Prince Valiant (I don't think it's been mentioned yet.)

@zarionofarabel I'm not sure what has shocked you. But traditional/conventional D&D has a lot of knights, nobles, lords and vassals, hereditary monarchs, etc. And the way the game and its settings are presented, these are often - even typically - presented as social relations to be affirmed...

This generalises to any game set in the past. Not just Arthurian RPGing. The most straightforward way to deal with it is to just elide that sort of thing in play. How far you want/need to elide is probably table-relative. Here's some stuff that happened in my own Prince Valiant RPGing: Some...

It's more about being a guardian of the land than a preserver, isn't it? So the issue is not so much that it's a druid restoring an area, but that it's mislabelled. There's also the issue that this doesn't really count as restoring the land - "nonmagical vegetation native to the region sprouts...

From memory, slavery in Dark Sun is not racialised. So I'm not sure why it is being said to more closely resemble US than classical Roman slavery. Roman slavery was chattel slavery, involved frequent sexual violence against enslaved women, etc.

I haven't run the Prince Valiant episode. But based on my experience with the system, I'd expect an hour or so of play - but it could well be more, depending on how the possible conflicts work out. The TB2e adventure - together with the intro and the outro - was a session's play, as per the...