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This is true with a lot of games, honestly; almost any game, generic or not, carries certain kinds of fundamental design assumptions that will color how settings designed for it work out. You can make it work with systems derived from each other most of the time, but past that its always kind...

Still a little coarse for my taste; probably because I come from a Hero background, I'd prefer at least three buckets, not two.

Mutants and Masterminds has had it as an effective option (in terms of just allowing people to do character modelling and ignore the points) for a while, but I'm unsold it would go over well with most people; you can already have situations where people feel overshadowed, and knowing that it may...

Just be aware that while technically none of the direct RQ derivatives are lightweight, you'd likely find Mythras the heavies of the three (Mythras, RQ Classic and RQ:AIG). It made some serious attempts at tactical engagement, and for better or worse that has a price.

It never bothered me for whatever reason. I'm on his Patreon even though I don't watch him as much as I used to (some stuff I don't care about that he hits) because I watched him extensively as a breakfast entertainment for so many years I figure I owe him the backpay. :)

There are always going to be people who, even if they somewhat care about representation, are playing from a heavily gamist posture on some level, and they'll always want the most bang for the least buck. This was why when I did work on a superhero system years ago that I think may very well...

Just a side comment on one branch of this discussion, since I've seen it come up in other discussion: Disadvantages that work by yielding metacurrency instead of up-front points have some virtues: they're more or less good at automatically regulating frequency since they come up as often as...

Yeah, in a way its a team t-shirt.

Oh, I'm not questioning favorites. As I noted, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (none of the versions) are on my list of favorites; I just was noting some of them cast a bit of a shadow. I'm admittedly biased toward that period, but there's probably only two in my own top five (Forbidden Planet...

This is apparently a known problem for Let's Player's monetization sometimes; people will start watching an LP, then want to go off and play the game and stop watching because they don't want to be spoiled. Its one of the reasons Splattercat gave up on his one time longplay format LPs.

I grew up watching older SF movies on Saturday afternoon TV matinees in my childhood, so I have a disproportionate fondness for them. I think, to some extent, some of the 50's SF films looked fairly believeable to the people of the time. That's largely because their familiar palette of what...

The very first example I was going to give, in fact (though I'm not personally fond of it). I guess it also depends on whether you're talking about movies that had a broad impact, or a strong one in SF fandom: I'm not sure how well how many were well remembered outside of the latter, but within...

I'll say the same thing about this I've said when people suggest it about the Hero System; trying to move into the niche Savage Worlds has thoroughly colonized is not liable to be a net benefit. Heavy crunch systems definitely have lost a lot of their market, but tossing away much of what you...

While I value the current period heavily because people are doing good work both within and without the trad sphere, I'm kind of the mind that thinks the 1985-1995 period is what I consider the hobby at its healthiest. Arguably that's me showing my prejudices though, since its before the 3e era...

I gather we're ignoring the 50's here? There's some that (though they've mostly disappeared into the rear view mirror at that point) were considered kind of important earlier.

One of the hardest things to do sometimes in gaming is transitioning from one game to another that is very similar but different in fundamental ways. It can throw you off worse than going to something radically different.

I said "after one meaty suppliment", but honestly, it depends on the game and what its covering; some need more add-on materials than others. I'd call Champions Complete pretty self-contained for example. But Savage Worlds I wanted more material.

Just looked it up, and looks a lot like a lot of early econoboxes, honestly.

When I was young and dumb, I owned an already somewhat aged Ford Maverick. I remember more than one yahoo in sports cars who found out the hard way that thing had a V8 and could cling to the road like a tick.

Its not terrible, but most of the brutalist buildings I've liked have had somewhat more creative design. I mean anyone can (and do) just slap down a big block.