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Covering that archetype does need another class, because none of the existing ones cover it. Draw Steel is a game where classes matter a whole lot – they are fundamental to your character, not just a shopping list of abilities like in e.g. Fabula Ultima. I like this, because it means each class...

Because the Fury doesn't have that kind of powers. Does Li Mu Bai strike you as a character fueled by rage, throwing people through walls right and left?

Goddamit, you made me go look things up. From Wikipedia: "In August 1995, WotC released Everway before closing its RPG product line four months later." Four months later would be December 1995. "Wizards of the Coast announced the purchase of TSR, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons, on April 10...

That is part of the premise, yes. "Could we survive eating only humans?"

Seems like a legit author at least. Author doesn't have a wikipedia page but there is an interview that's a few years old.

The most likely source would be records of battles as well as what loadouts archers had in battle (if a standard loadout includes one extra string, that's a "sometimes bleep happens" insurance, but if it includes three that indicates that strings breaking is expected). As for how many would snap...

It's possible he took it as a parting gift – I have a vague memory of a press release saying he bought it off them at some later point, but I can't be hedgehogged to look for it. I could be confusing it with the announcement of the rerelease on DTRPG. The relevant bit is that Wizards kept it in...

They sold the others off some time before acquiring TSR. I can't be hedgehogged to look up the actual date, but there was definitely a gap of like a year or two where Wizards didn't publish any RPGs at all. Basically their beancounters told them "Why are you spending money on these products that...

Well, they've clearly done some cross-pollination with MtG settings getting D&D sourcebooks and a few Magic sets being based on D&D, so they're not as opposed to doing it as they were back then. I think the success of Universes Beyond* sets probably showed them that there's little commercial...

I know Ryan Dancey talked back in the day about how if you have the #1 properties in different categories (like how D&D is the #1 RPG and MtG is the #1 CCG), there's little point to transferring over one property to the other category. Something about competing with yourself and running the risk...

If TORG sounds fun, there's a more recent version called TORG: Eternity that is set in the current "near now" (or well, the "near now" of a few years back), not the "near now" of the early 90s. It fixes many of the mechanical issues of the original game, and has a slightly more serious angle on...

Dark Side points in OG D6 were just a corruption mechanic. If you used a Force Point to do something evil, not only would it be lost permanently (to a minimum of 1) but you'd also gain a Dark Side point. Gaining a Dark Side point meant you had to roll a D6, and if you rolled below the number of...

It's well established that no-one ever looks up to the ceiling.

West End Games, with Greg Costikyan, Bill Slavicsek, and Greg Gorden were really ahead of their time when it came to narrative mechanics in mainstream RPGs. Star Wars has some of it, but look at TORG: Possibilities letting you boost rolls, Drama cards that not only give bonuses to various things...

I only played Star Wars D6, never ran it, and it's probably been 30 years since I last did. But let's see if I can find the phrasing... right, here it is. Getting the point back means "Being Heroic", which can require "Exposing yourself to great danger", "Sacrificing to help others", or "Taking...

As I recall, it was more tied to intent than drama: using one for evil purposes would lose it and gain you a Dark Side point (which had a chance of turning you into an evil NPC), using it for selfish but non-evil purposes (e.g. survival) would just lose it, using it heroically would give it back...

There's also this showing how spears can be pretty effective against swords until the wielder gets overconfident and lets other concerns than winning outweigh his judgment.

Most writings attributed to Lao Tzu were actually from his wife Lao Ma, who ruled in his name and kept him in a coma using pressure points because he was a real butthole. I saw that in a documentary.