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I don't associate "excessive detail" as being a feature of the Wuxia genre. Or any film genre for that matter. My point is that Wushu doesn't award dice for colorful narration, just detailed narration. You could spit out a dozen boring details and earn a dozen dice. It's not about the quality of...

No. In Wushu, players earn dice to resolve actions for adding details to their description of said action. Each detail earns an extra die. The more detailed your description of an action, the more dice you get to roll. So, mechanically, the rules are punitive to players who aren't good at...

Wuahu, with one caveat - it's greatest weakness is that it demands its players are extroverts who can think on their feet and improvise speech. If they can't, the game immediately falls apart.

A slightly older selfie (lighting courtesy of antique lamps).

Superman, Fantastic Four, and 28 Years Later (in that order).

D&D Basic Set (B/X) at a garage sale.

Eh. I had no issues with it. I mean, it didn't blow me away but I've seen much, much worse over the years. It's ultimately a matter of personal taste, I think.

You can play Night's Black Agents as a straight spy thriller (just drop the vampires). It's a very, very, good game.

I picked up some extra cash from fixing some computer account issues today, so after I bought some groceries, I picked up Rasyr's Fantasy Express Lite and a copy of Adventure Perilous.

When I was growing up in Kansas, it was "pop" - but everywhere I've lived since then, it's been "soda". So, for me, it's now "soda".

I use "Debrau Initiative" (named after my old Star Wars WEG GM). Basically, in combat, players take turns starting with the person seated to the left or right of the GM and rotating clockwise or counterclockwise (the GM may shake this up at their discretion). Characters get one action each by...

It depends on the game. In my horror/weirdness games, my goal is to reach and maintain this tempo (Caution! NSFW because of violence!): My fantasy games tend to be much less frantic.

For me, it was the copious amounts of malt liquor and the Manowar (played on 10, of course).

That might be difficult. While Maelstrom is technically still in print, it's through a different publisher. I think the original designers are no longer involved with the TTRPG industry.

Maelstrom Storytelling used/uses a die pool system where only odds count as successes vs. a target number. It's a legitimate system.

My current house system, Front Range Minimalist, is complete in three pages (there is a supplement of character creation and world-building options). I love it. It's very much inspired by PbtA (the dice) and Risus (the descriptors). Perfect for one-offs and short campaigns. PM me if you'd like...

Anything that isn't current edition official D&D or current edition World of Darkness, sadly.

See post #10 for a list of systems I'm interested in running. :)