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There can be systems where a low-skilled person's proportion of critical successes exceed those of a more skilled character. If I need a natural 20 to hit that dragon, all of my hits are going to be crits!

Way back in Pyramid Online, Ken Hite wrote five supers seeds set in historical periods: Marvel Heroes in Imperial Rome DC Heroes in Renaissance Italy 99 Muslim heroes - one for each name of Allah - in the Crusades Civil War Indian Wars. Each one sounded great. "The alien craft fell to earth...

In a low roll wins scenario, there will be more instances where the more skilled individual succeeds while the less skilled one fails altogether. But in the cases where the latter succeeds, it negates the former's higher skill level.

I would say that Ars Magica is a progenitor of the d20 system as well. Jonathan Tweet worked on both, and the universal resolution is pretty similar.

The more a game is an exercise in tactical combat, the more it will benefit from a catalog of monsters. This is both for the novelty of encountering different challenges, and the likely necessity of antagonists at different power levels. Gumshoe occupies an interesting middle ground - in most...

"Realism" in a system is a perfectly acceptable goal, and GURPS has indeed striven to achieve it. But it clashes with principles of PC generation for me. I understand why Nuclear Physics should cost more than Unarmed Combat in reality; chances are, however, a higher rating in the latter will...

"You think he's being sincere" has enough room for a duplicitous NPC to be lying.

Crom! My games tend to be contiguous, but there is always room for discrete adventures.

Night's Black Agents. Arguably the only thing the author has tinkered with since its release is the chase rules. Other GM-forward releases have only expounded on the core material.

A giant beehive balanced on top of a mountain, and the PCs and major NPCs swinging a lot of ten foot poles around near the summit.

Because you play more than just high fantasy :) SW is a pretty good universal system.

Still better than The Battle of Five Armies.

After all, the driver can choose to put a flag sticker on his car, which expresses what he's trying to say.

Some states require car owner signatures to propose new designs; mine requires a vote of the state leg.

I would also add that the Avalanche Press covers are on the younger end of the 25-year dividing line.

That's what makes this discussion a bit more interesting. There was a definite line over which AD&D misogyny could cross; and did - in the first version of Palace of the Silver Princess. And while it is gratifying that the line has moved in a positive direction, I understand those who would...

For me, the reality is that my time is limited and the pool of players I have to try new stuff is small. I was lucky to play/run 6 different games this year, and they were all games I had played before.

I'm in your age bracket. I want to play, not learn new stuff.

If the player is a novice gamer, do they know that this is an unusual request for a PC? If they are a veteran player, do they have a sourcebook they are asking to be used? I think you can offer something similar to the concept, but you are in your rights to say no if they keep pushing back...

That's a great idea. Also available for free: https://dwarfstar.brainiac.com/ds_barbarianprince.html