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Unless you are letting these modifiers dip results into the negatives - which becomes the exact same system as roll high! - you will need to take steps to keep the results as close to the positive side of zero as you can. Making a lot of modifiers ultimately worthless. 5th edition essentially...

Especially since 1990, the games that have drawn the most players into the hobby are roll high systems. That's going to be a default for a vast majority of people.

A core activity and a means to emulate it. Useful character differentiation with a minimum of descriptors.

A random generator is limited by the content its creator provides. I assume the AI has a set of instructions that tells it where to look, but it could be pretty far-reaching. The consent issue is a tricky one, because the AI can do what a human can do, just much faster.

Sting wrote "Shape of My Heart" with similar symbology. It ran in the end credits of The Professional IIRC.

Anyone who has been inspired by the atmosphere of Blade Runner has heard his work.

Every Night's Black Agents game I run is inspired by these emo nerds.

In only 8 lines, Donald Fagen's "True Companion" in that movie is another of a long list of Traveller inspirations: Crewmen of the True Companion I can see you're tired of action In this everlasting twilight Home is just a sad abstraction Just beyond the troubled skyways Young men dream of...

I'd say it's not expensive. A cost-conscious person could play without spending any money beyond expenses for internet or other things they'd already be paying for. Comparatively, roleplaying gives a better return on investment than similar hobbies I can think of. Especially if you consider a...

It had an effect, to the extent that GTG didn't allow conversions of Marvel and DC heroes on its boards. I would direct the OP and anyone interested in that sort of thing to the rpg.net forums. There are even some folks who have created their own fake comics publishers. I ran it once and would...

It's probably better to compare cooperative board games and RPGs. Just as it's probably better not to compare a turn in a board game to a turn in an rpg combat.

Gaz has played some Gumshoe games - I nominate some that aren't Night's Black Agents.

I don't think any other company will attain the amount of sales WotC enjoys with D&D. Of course, few can compete with the sheer size of Hasbro, even when they aren't trying to run its goodwill into the ground. But there are plenty of smaller publishers that have been business for decades...

I was kinda hoping you failed a Navigation roll and wandered into another space.

My definition of railroading requires oppositional deprivation of meaningful player choice. So there needs to be an element of consciously countering the group's pIans. I would also note that a GM who wanders into a situation in which she might railroad can almost universally avoid it by talking...

I have to assume there is a vibrant Discord community. Perhaps they didn't want to overlap.

The optimal skill number is a variable calculated along several axes: what are a game's core activities, how much simulationism does the designer want, how important is character differentiation and/or niche protection, how closely should the design emulate other games in the genre, and I'm sure...

"When we started this game I gave you my expectation that your characters would be heroes and go on quests. You agreed, or at least indicated that this was acceptable. I'm not prepared to run a game set in one place from where you never leave. So either someone else needs to DM, or you have to...

It also may be bad news if the things the PCs are hunting can see further into the electromagnetic spectrum than we can.

I would expect the baseline to be above 50%. Then, depending on the types of PCs and type of game, this would be adjusted further. If my character was an expert at something, like a professor or ninja, I would expect more successes. In a horror game, I like to think I'd be willing to accept...