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For me, the "sweet spot" is between broad and player/table-defined skills and limited numbers of skills. For instance, Barbarians of Lemuria defaults to about 20 Careers per setting/minigame, and any given player character is highly unlikely to ever have ranks in more than 5 of them, but one of...

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I generally lean toward 2e because of the Player's (GM's) Option line, but without those books... it's hard to choose between them. They're too similar, for starters, and for everything I'm glad 2e cut there's something I wish they hadn't. In practice, I don't choose. I include all of the 1e...

Chinese martial arts fantasy with overtly supernatural elements.

It's a balm, but it's not the balm I'm looking for. I want space opera outside of the superheroes genre, I want modern urban xianxia outside of the superheroes genre, I want the rich diversity of nerd topics coming from the Mouse to be reflected in the film industry outside of the Mouse.

I wish I'd appreciated 4e better when it was in print.

Like I always say, the pineapples are necessary to keep the anchovies from being overpowering.

Funny thing that the one thing all of the best Disney MCU movies have in common is how much I wish anyone but Disney Marvel was making movies like that, independently of the MCU. With Disney setting the bar for so many different genres now... I wish they had more competition. I wish we'd gotten...

I like to do a stingy point buy, or a selection of modest arrays, and then let players roll 4d4 in order against their purchased abilities. That way they're guaranteed minimum functional stats for the class/role they want to play, and are more likely to have "happy accidents" in their dumpstats...

You mean like exactly none of the prior edition numbers made sense? Wizards of the Coast can and should feel free to call their new launch of the core books whatever the Hell they want. Fans of the game are still going to call it Sixth Edition.

It's worth remembering, that wasn't a marketing strategy, that was a legal settlement-- that WotC bought off in 1997.

Do people not remember the acrobatic marketing D&D engaged in trying to avoid Fifth Edition being called Fifth Edition? Has nobody noticed that none of your 5e D&D books have "Fifth Edition" on the cover, and wondered about that? It's going to be Sixth Edition, whether they like it or not, and...

Well, if we're opening up the table to games we wish would revert to an earlier state and then get a new edition... Alternity Science Fiction Roleplaying, based on the original rules but incorporating some of the most popular house rules. With the settings intact-- the non-licensed ones, at...

It occurs to me that there is practically a one-to-one correspondence between the works and franchises I might suggest in this thread, and the works and franchises I would list in my personal Appendix N. Mario, He-Man and She-Ra, Phantasy Star, BraveStarr, Galaxy Rangers, Thundarr the Barbarian...

Reminds me of the time I sat down and figured out that by the most generous interpretation of AD&D's Weapon Proficiency rules, I was at least a 15th level Fighter. Can't imagine what actual trained soldiers and martial artists are like...

Serendipity.

Three week supply of medication, no wheelchair, Wyoming winter in my bathrobe and slippers? Sure. I grab my cellphone, my tablet, and my friend's Steam Deck, and my pistol case. I take the pistol out of the case and I put the electronics in it so that they have a better chance of surviving to...

Masters of the Universe. No, I'm not counting FASA. I'd be happy to count Legends of Grayskull if I thought there was a snowball's chance in Hell we'll ever see it again,.

The RPG primarily focuses on the Resistance in the Future, in the 2020s and 2030s. It has a little bit about the Player Characters going back into the past in hot pursuit of a Terminator, but the core book only had the license for the first movie and the Dark Horse comics and the T2 supplement...

I don't feel like I've been the target audience for Official D&D for fifteen years and counting, with practically everything WotC has published and practically everything they've said about what they've published since 2008-2009 or so confirming that they don't consider people like me to be a...