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This is exactly right. The Expanse RPG is one of my favorite tabletop systems, with all of its Newtonian physics and somewhat realistic premise of combat via missiles, railguns, and belt-fed slugthrowers, each effective at a specific range and pretty much worthless outside of that range...

The only thing I'd add to @tabletopjess' comment is that the system is pretty easy to learn and run, which also makes it pretty easy to adapt to whatever settings or scenarios you want to play in. It's got a very old-school vibe, and I mean that in a good way.

The books were released mostly before, but also during, the run of the show. The show used visual elements not explicitly called out in the books to convey ideas in shorthand which the books explained in detail. For example, the books explain in great detail how a ship's crew only experiences...

Fair point-- not arguing against you-- but my take is that The Expanse's fantasy elements don't negate its attention to real-world physics when it comes to ship design and its depiction of ship-to-ship combat. In general, I think the show did a fair job of remaining somewhat grounded in...

M&M3e's chargen fiddly factor is near-nil if you're making a character which is neatly covered by one of the templates and it dials up gradually from there the further you depart from a template. Where it gets uber fiddly though, unless you're already pretty familiar with character options, is...

Sounds fantastic! I'll pick it up as soon as it's available from someone with better shipping rates. I mean, the Melsonian website lists 'sensual snails' as a product feature, so how could I not??? Thanks for the personal response!

Perfect! I'm looking forward to receiving my copy.

I just ordered Fronds from IndiePressRevolution to avoid Melsonian's horrendous shipping charges. Sadly, Seasons of the Snail isn't available there yet.

Thanks for the review! I completely dig Troika! but passed on Fronds of Benevolence because I figured that between the core rules, Acid Death Fantasy, and Academies of the Arcane I already had more weirdness for the system than I'd ever have a chance to use in an actual campaign. Plus, I'm...

I'd be proud too. Acid Death Fantasy is a personal fave.

Heart is a super-cool game that I wish more people knew about. It sort of takes the Spire setting, which is guaranteed to turn your player characters into hateful violent revolutionaries, and turns it into a tunnel crawl, only the tunnel is a weird transdimensional space.

Seconded. When we were playing M&M3e we started using the Basic Heroes Handbook instead of the 'core' rules because creating characters using archetypes was so much easier. And it looks like maybe M&M4e is going to lean into this method.

If any enterprising RPG designers out there need a playtester... I'm your dude.

Bazinga.

I support Green Ronin wherever I can because I like their products and because I like the ethos of the company. (That's a fancy way of saying that they make cool stuff and treat people right). I'm sure I'll pick up the playtest just because although it'll take a lot to dislodge me from M&M3e.

Congratulations Chaosium! I don't remember if I played RuneQuest or Basic Role-Playing first, but both titles were among the first ten or so tabletop PRGs that I ever tried out, back in the days when adolescent me was obsessed with gaming and had to play everything that I could get my hands on...

Adult themes, edibles… this is my kind of thread.

Funny, I'd never considered mixing edibles and roleplaying games in precisely this manner.

Honestly, this part of the revised book was really hard for me to understand upon first read-through, but once it clicked and I realized just how customizable characters in Cypher system could be, it's also the chapter which made me want to stop reading Cypher and start playing it.

I'm willing to split the baby: Cypher shares some general design elements with Fate while its game mechanics and resolution system are completely different. More specifically, both systems have a meta-currency which players can acquire by agreeing to accept certain roleplaying cues and can...