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FFG Star Wars for me. I really love its dice pool system, funny symbols and all. (Honestly I'd use Genesys more often if it were better supported for VTTs.) I ran an Edge of the Empire campaign for a couple years, and my group and I had a great time with it.

I preferred the name Shadow of the Mad Wizard, but I get why it's been changed.

I know it's not as good as having the actual thing, but Esper Genesis is very obviously heavily inspired by Mass Effect. The caveat is that it does run on the 5e engine—which I know a lot of people aren't big on—but I think it works really well.

I like the way XP is used for both, just as I like the way your stat pools are used for both health and as spendable resource. It becomes an interesting resource management system where you have to weigh whether the immediate benefit outweighs the long-term benefit.

I remember seeing this advertised is a bunch of the comics I read at the time, and I so wanted a copy of it. Despite not really being religious, my mom was wary of D&D because she thought it might be psychologically harmful. Alas, I didn't get into D&D until 5e.

That's not entirely accurate. If you want to run monsters as basically as possible, then yes, their stats are virtually identical, but in practice, that's not always the case. For example, let's compare two different monsters from The Ninth World Bestiary for Numenera. Both are level 3. Erulian...

I'm thinking I might want to save Foresight and Wish for the campaign-ending final boss (when all the PCs are level 20). Thanks for the suggestion!

Ah! Thank you so much for pointing that out! I really need to reread all the descriptions for his spells to make sure I've got them down.

Since a couple of the PCs can cast counterspell, do you think it would be a good idea to have Acererak feint with a couple at-will spells first to see if he can get them to use up those spell slots? I'd hate to waste time stop. I understand that they would have to roll successfully to counter a...

I started in 2007 with a home brew rules system created by a friend and some of his gaming buddies. It was a generic system, and we used it for a Victorian-era gothic horror action game. (In retrospect, it was kind of like Rippers for Savage Worlds.) I didn't get super into roleplaying, though...

That's fair. Heinsoo and Tweet were definitely very overt about their intentions. I just wasn't sure how picky the OP was being about the definition of "not D&D."

I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of 13th Age. Is that because it's too similar to D&D for people to consider it, or is it just not that popular? I've personally been wanting to try it out with my group as a possible replacement for 5e because I like a lot of the differences. I think the...

Ooh, that's a cool idea! Thanks!

Holy crap! Thanks!

While I have people's attention, I'm also worried that I'll be having trouble for the very final encounter of the campaign. The way things are set up, the BBEG is yet another lich, in this case Raugilath. That said, the intended final boss is Dendar, The Night Serpent, but the PCs are already...

All characters are level 16 and will be when they face Acererak and the atropal. Okay, so the major damage dealer is the tiefling swashbuckler rogue who recklessly throws himself into danger. Since the characters had previously gone through Curse of Strahd, he's a wereraven. (He volunteered to...

I'd been running the Adventurers League adventures for Tomb of Annihilation, but when I got to the point where the death curse was over, I realized that the players would feel cheated if they weren't the ones to stop it. As such, I had them go to the Tomb of the Nine Gods, and since it's mainly...

I'm a big fan of Numenera. It's technically sci-fi, I suppose, but the technology is so advanced that it seems like magic, and civilization has come back around to a quasi-medieval society. I also really like The Black Hack 2nd Edition. It starts out a bit like D&D, but it uses a roll-under...

I've played and run it a few times, and I really like it. It's what I'd be running right now if I weren't in the middle of a long-running 5e campaign. Unlike others, I actually really like the fact that attribute pools double as HP and XP can be used for rerolls and player intrusions. I think...

I'm not currently playing or running a sci-fi campaign, but I really want to get Esper Genesis to the table. The setting reminds me a lot of Mass Effect, which is one of my all-time favorite settings.