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I handled this by instead of having a fighter combat matrix or a thief combat matrix, I clipped a "Bob" combat matrix and a "Mike" combat matrix to my DMs screen with their to-hit versus AC with their commonly used weapons precalculated for their level, strength, degree of proficiency, and...

I never play any game with more than say a 20-page rulebook RAW. Heck, I'm ready to start house ruling Wingspan. Most RPGs get house rules by the second session and often before we start play if CharGen is noticeably wonky and unbalanced. Usually about 20 or 30 sessions in I'm ready to...

You've already touched on this somewhat, but to add to what @Charlaquin said about D&D being largely written lately by people with little background in religion, most ancient societies defined "gods" rather more loosely than we would to today where "god" means something like the Abrahamic god...

This is a setting decision just as the decision to have abstract or nonexistent deities are. It doesn't reflect how gods are observed as active in source material like Greek myths, or even how the Greeks and Romans recorded their own histories. In my homebrew, you can make divine...

I voted an '8' but a lot of people would probably consider my tastes closer to a '9'. The thing is that I like a very simple and clean core mechanic but an abundance of supplemental rules for handling pretty much anything that could happen in the setting. So I want mass combat rules, crafting...

I have long claimed that the RPG landscape has too many systems as it is, and people should pick a "good enough" system and focus on producing good IP for that system. Unique systems are I think a waste of time now for a designer, and represent a creative impulse that while I perfectly...

They certainly can be and are often intended to be, but I think it's possible for that to cross the line. D6 has a "force point" that is both a meta currency and intended to represent something that does exist in the setting. Whether the ability to occasionally dramatically access the force...

Obi Wan isn't prominent prequel trilogy character? I don't see how if I'd listed Captain Panaka, Jango Fett, and Obi Wan Kenobi it would have made a difference to my point. Or Captain Rex if you prefer. Either way, all in the same universe meaningfully together and also capable of interacting...

I've been running Star Wars as an RPG for the last 4 years or so and I guess I'm not a guy that puts as much attention to the details as you, but I don't see it. I will say this though, the RPG won't feel like Star Wars to me if you can't have Obi Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, and Cassian Andor...

Setting obviously. At times, tone, in that one is rated "PG" and the other rated "R" and so there are certain topics that are handled more graphically and less sensitively in one than the other. Pulp Fiction is trying to hit you in the face with blood splatter, and Star Wars typically is more...

I don't make a distinction nor do I agree that they are different. I assume that the only difference between scrappy Andor and Obi Wan Kenobi in the prequels is the level of the character (as it were). And in general, the dice pools do seem to make this happen as large dice pools make for...

Isn't this true of adapting all fiction to a game though? In the fiction, the characters have plot protection always. That is, whatever happens to them is ultimately just the whim of the author. But in no game does the character have plot protection always. They are always subject to the...

I detest 2D20. Personally, I think the answer is D6 with hit points and levels (of a sort) plus much more rigorous balancing of the supplemental content like races, equipment, vehicles, etc. After running D6 for about 4 years I'm beginning to see where the system needs to go. Maybe in four...

It's a con-vention.

I do what the particular group wants. This group in session zero thirteen years ago now expressed very strong desires for linear play with a strong narrative hooks and not for open ended play where they create the fun, probably because the few then experienced players had had bad experiences...

In space combat, suits leak.

So does this world preexist your attempts to make it more fey? It's going to increase the difficulty of giving you advice because fitting into existing world building is challenging. In addition to Swedish and British Isles centered folklore, may I recommend you look into Japanese folklore as...

So, do by "this world" do you mean "the (nominally) real world" or do you mean some fantasy gameable D&D world. A lot of the things that I would have recommended to you involve living in Fairie or at least exploring it, but the immediate recommendation for something a bit numinous and fey is...

Around the time this post was originally written, I divided the Ranger into two classes - the Explorer a jack-of-all-trades focused on movement ability, navigation, and two-handed fighting and the Hunter focused on ranged weapons and killing things. Potentially shared stealth and survival, but...

I think you'd get more response if you gave us a longer summary of what you are thinking. Like, why do you want to do "fey things" and what is your existing inspiration (your "Appendix N" if you would like). For example, are you more Spiderwick Chronicles or Brothers Grimm. Is this Darbie...