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To the OP- there are definitely games where this is the case for me and my group. I am a fan of JRPGs personally, but most of my group are not. There are some cool, JRPG inspired games with great mechanics but people bounce of the presentation when they try to read them.

Kim Mohan, a long time member of the industry who started with TSR in 1979. One of the main contributors to the original Unearthed Arcana.

Have to wonder if it is sitting in someone sideboard or ended up in landfill…

Is the original trophy still lost?

Savage Worlds Horror Companion would give you all the tools you need to run an urban fantasy game. It covers the spectrum from completely mundane characters stumbling into ‘things man was not meant to know’ up to vampires and werewolves (who may or may not be vying for the affections of a...

Any initial view on what the impact of this will be, @Morrus? Do they distribute RPGs for many publishers? Do they tend to be the primary distribution channel in certain sectors? You are much more informed on this sort of thing than us consumers.

If people are planning to run this, Pelgrane sell a physical copy of Dracula Unredacted - well worth investing in.

Douglas Cole is working on a modern action box set along the lines of XCOM for inspiration IIRC. So at least there may be a new ‘on ramp’ for people in the medium term.

From a meta perspective this seems like too easy a ‘win’. Both players could pull this trick every session and their Weaknesses would have been exercised from a game perspective with no downside since they are countering each other. In most systems a disadvantage has to actually impact you for...

This is the table for 4e:

I just got some additional stuff on a 24hr turnaround… (Didn’t realise the standee pack was different to what was included in the box set)

I run most all of my sessions from an iPad so PDF is my preference. But having the books to pass around at the table is great, and given that I am always hoping the other GMs in our group will like a system enough to run it and I can play, having physical books makes lending possible.

GURPS was my favourite system for decades, and is still in my Top 3. I think it is most suited to games with nuanced characters doing more than just a series of combats. If I wanted to run a game about investigation which focussed on the investigating (as opposed to the apprehension of perps)...

A second book for the table is always useful…

I finished reading the core book last night. I think some extra options will significantly increase the appeal of the game to my group (who like crunch on the whole). I’m currently GMing a Savage Worlds campaign which has another 4-6 sessions to run, then it will be someone else’s turn to run...

Looking at the label in more detail, it looks like it came from GamesQuest who are based in the UK. I don’t know if that means GQ serves UK orders only, or also cover their EU orders, too. So, technically it was bought local to me rather than international. But Free League’s operation is...

From EU to UK

Impressive service from FL’s web store. Ordered Friday, arrived today (international, no less). And free download codes for DriveThru - top result!

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say systems other than (A)D&D and spin offs then. The d20 family tend so share that exponential growth, with the exception of BX family that is a bit more grounded. Look at other families like BRP and spin offs, Traveller spin offs, Advanced Fighting Fantasy...

If you substitute the phrase ‘flat character growth’ for ‘bounded accuracy’ then I would suggest there are many games which will scratch this itch, including a swathe of OSR games and modern fantasy games. Even a game like GURPS has a pretty flat power growth structure in my experience (though...