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The bad news is that once the Duke Nukem RPG is announced, it will be fourteen years before it's released.

Almost 23 years later, I think this thread is now in the wrong forum? 🤔

Also, the movie business still hasn't recovered to pre-2020 levels. Look at the yearly box office totals, domestic or international - global box office for 2023 was ~70% of what it was in 2019. WotC has nominally gone back to a "franchise model" that they used before 2020. Before 2020, they...

Rule 34 predates 4chan (by two months, and 4chan popularized it, and added the other rules). I never frequented any chan site, but I knew about Rule 34, even before Charles Stross wrote a book with that title. Wrapping back around to the topic, if Warlock is at all notable, Rule 35 applies...

The End of the World RPGs (Zombie Apocalypse, Wrath of the Gods, Revolt of the Machines, and Alien Invasion) don't use the Genesys system. I don't remember the details, but IIRC, it just uses d6s. They're available in PDF on DriveThru, now from EDGE Studio...

Pinnacle has their Rippers setting for Savage Worlds; IIRC, it's steampunk horror. Deadlands also has some steampunk flavor, with the weird science stuff. Castle Falkenstein is a fairly early steampunk RPG, AFAIK - released in 1994. It's available in PDF and POD via DriveThruRPG. Also, there...

My first RPG was AD&D (though it could have been OD&D, I guess). I was a kid, my mom and her boyfriend went out to dinner with neighbors, leaving their teenage son to babysit me. He had me roll up a fighter (IIRC, he had 4 hp), and then my guy headed out for this big city that he had this...

Marvel and DC do add new characters, they very often just don't become popular enough to last and join the ranks of the famous characters. Most of the more recent superheroes that seem to have some stickiness are versions of previous characters - e.g., Miles Morales Spider-Man, Ghost...

I ran ~39 sessions of D&D this year, about 200 hours probably. I played ~27 sessions of D&D this year, 3-3.5 hours each, so over 80 hours.

So far, 47 sessions of Mutants & Masterminds 2e (as a player), mostly about 4 hours (not counting an hour of chatting), so that's more than 150 hours, maybe about 175-180? Perhaps more; there've been a couple of 6 hour sessions. I have also GMed 67 sessions of Shadowrun 5e this year, mostly...

From the New Guardians book, IIRC. And that was an...odd book.

There's even a song:

The average person doesn't roll to drive every month, or every other month; you don't roll for your daily commute. They roll to drive when they are in a dangerous situation, and how often that happens to the average person isn't defined by the rules. Unless everyone has a much more exciting...

Probably: GURPS 4e Mutants & Masterminds (probably 2e, maybe 4e) D&D 5e or SWADE or a 2d20 game, probably

Oh, yeah; we ran some Special Ops-ish games, so many grenades were thrown. We had someone with a Milkor MGL fire full RoF into a horde of charging orks. It was impressive, in both amount of effort and effect in game.

For my D&D game, I don't think I'd use it. I'm running a relatively low-wahoo Greyhawk game, so the only "tanks" would be the container type, and it doesn't really make much sense. OTOH, my Shadowrun game - yeah, a tank junkyard. The MacGuffin Mr. Johnson wants got traced to a driver in a tank...

Ah, but due to the editing and developing of recent Shadowrun editions, familiarity with previous versions is pretty key to figuring out how the rules are supposed to work, and the setting. 🫤

I don't know for sure, but "paynim" is a real world word, an archaic term more or less synonymous with "heathen", largely (AFAIK) applied specifically to Muslims. I imagine WotC changed it because it was largely a term of disparagement. Ulakandar would be what the nomadic peoples that live on...

Every edition* of Shadowrun takes place in a later year than the previous one. They do try to explain some rule changes as being due to changes over time, but that's not really followed through on (the prices of things, for example; tech has gotten cheaper over time, historically, then inflation...