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Just a few around the edges: Police Officer and Spy; maybe a Revolutionary, Explorer (still some of those in the 1920s), Salesman, or Charlatan (ie a conductor of fake occultism).

How did you arrive at the balance you are looking for? I am not disputing it, just curious. I don't think the authors of CoC ever wanted professions to be of relatively equal worth; as I understand it, part of the design was to make a 1920s historical game, balance be damned.

There's a big difference between making a new character and making a character to start playing. A lot of players put deep thought into the process - regardless of what the GM wants or expects - and I can understand feeling that the effort was wasted if the PC dies after a handful of sessions. I...

This is one of mine, along with the original Delta Green sourcebook (for Call of Cthulhu) and Bookhounds of London (for Trail of Cthulhu).

No more than 30. It depends on the core activity of the game.

No stats just skills.

Making a replacement character would not be "fun" for me, especially if I spent a good deal of time coming up with the dead one. But I can do that in between sessions.

It can be, but it also depends on a lot of factors. How hard is it to make a PC in the first place - will it annoy someone to have to do it again? Is the risk of death implicit in play (ie, will it happen randomly, or is it more dependent on player choice)? Does the GM specifically expect a...

Anything that doesn't simply increase the size of the book risks significant disruptions to the project, in the form of unexpected costs and just being a different beast than publishing an rpg. Rpg campaigns can offer backers the unique opportunity to be memorialized in a project via an NPC...

If GURPS isn't the best, it certainly tries the hardest.

For horror investigations and/or the Mythos, you can't beat The Fall of Delta Green.

"Tell us why your character is looking for Vecna's mobile."

I will point out that the weakness of that edition is that there are only 2 classes.

And to break the 4th wall when necessary. In a con game I think it's acceptable to say "this is the adventure, and I don't have time to prep something else."

The subsidies for filming there are incredible.

With the Star Wars setting I think you'd have to be as precise with time as with location. You have some pretty powerful NPCs who are making lots of changes, while other planets seem to not change at all regardless of the era.

I was enamored with Hyboria as a teen, but as I accumulated information I realized he just grabbed place names from all over.

It's traditional: not only in the games themselves but also fantasy literature. If exploration is a pillar of the game - which RAW and statistically speaking, refers to a large majority of all rpg play - you need some place to explore. Geography can be used to emphasize different parts of the...

If the definition of tolerance is "a permissive attitude towards opinions/beliefs/ethnicities/practices that differ from one's own" then it probably hinges on whether those differences arise from personal distinctions or societal. For the former, I would consider tolerance a Good trait; for the...

No I have never seen it portrayed as a tool to respond to player input.