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D6 Adventure would be my first suggestion. It's really the d6 version of Indiana Jones, minus the Lucas IP. And mechanically, aside from damage, it's the same as WEG's Star Wars. It's relatively fast, character gen is usually short enough to do at a con (don't include the ads/disads in con use)...

I liked the idea of GURPS, and got my copy of 1e on a preorder. I wasn't thrilled with GURPS by 1990... and mostly shifted to Hero for my universal system needs. I almost completely quit GURPS in the late 90's... I found G:IOU to be compelling setting, but completely ruined by the details of...

Yes. Some oversights, such as no picker for adversary powers in the Foundryheart one. And a few small bugs.

Fundamentally, I think the most common flaw is perverse incentives. For example, TSR AMSH, you can't play a vicious anithero such as Blade, Hellboy, or even hulk, if you want to advance; moreover, missing a date is a higher hit to Karma than stopping a mugging gains... causing Spidey (Peter) to...

Players at an adjacent table, playing a different module are the ones that have a real reason to be able to complain. A very real situation at organized play and conventions. Parents, having to be in LOS of their under 15's That's the core issue with the X-Card as initially described; it was...

Found family is a category I left out; it always seems to arise from the other kinds. In the case of the FF, Ben's found family well before the accident. The accident makes them into a different subgroup - common origin groups. Which often are families, anyway. See also the Norse Gods in Marvel.

Depends upon the game. Tunnels and Trolls, where it's common for the rolls to be 3-12 dice per player, rolled and totalled, and also checked for 6's, and GM's can wind up rolling 30-100 dice... the roller is often faster. Same for WEG Star Wars, where 4-10 d6 are not uncommon player rolls...

There are severa kinds of Team comics I've seen... Fantastic Four, X-Men, TMNT: Most of the cast is stable long term, some changes at reboots. Characters are created specifically for the team... tho' certain characters may also have solo series. The TV "Why the «bleep» are they together?"...

The mechanics are 99% the same, except that many powers weren't in the system yet. Champions 1e is 64 pp., minimal art, few examples. Champions 3e is 142 pp. Much more art, many more examples. More villains and iconics, all on full sheets plus more description. HSR 4 is not huge; 224pp... but...

Unless you're running a Ferengi ship... or a Klingon one. And the latter is a fully supported mode. I aim for morality play first. Even in the action oriented scenarios.

It's a stance I've taken in D&DAL play... when every other player groaned at the objection. In that case, it was spiders. I asked if they wanted to sit out the scene in the hall and come back; they did. I've not had pay-to-play players in 34 years now... not counting the low-cost local cons'...

Wed Daggerheart 7 encounters, 3 combats... Smooth...

Supported on Mac, Win, Android, iOS. Map and tokens. Supports square grid, hex grid, ungridded, and isomorphic (long axis horizonal diamond/lozenge grid) supports 15° rotation increments supports both metric and English Traditional Measure; Japanese traditional measures a bonus. Ideally, the...

If the GM is on the ball, one can run it in any era. I've run TOS, Disco, and post-DS9 campaigns, it's not a big issue. It does work when players opt to not use stored metacurrency; momentum thus either buys traits or info, and all rolls are 2d20, plus helper 1d20 and ship/computer 1d20, both...

I'll note also: the budget for SCC's in a given adventure is ship-set; I basically stopped counting because it didn't matter as much as keeping relevant characters available... and only once did it go above a cruiser's rating. Also, in one campaign, a PC died; he opted to take his favorite SCC...

Another key item: safety tools. I use a reference to my nation's movie &/or TV ratings for a start. Con play, I use US PG13 or R, by setting. X-card is easy. Well, usually. I'll come back to it, tho' Whiile full lines/veils for everone is usually not worth it, if you, as a GM have some, put...

IMO: One of the most important, for anything but D&D/Pathfinder, is the core mechanic handout. Have a handout with the core mechanic(s)... how many dice of how many sides and how to read them, and when to roll them. What the effects of running out of HP does.

No. Overgeeked did on page 1. It's lasted about 40 years... with minor changes. That said, it makes the biggest and most common mythos mistake... statting up things man was not meant to kill nor know. If you stat it, players WILL find a way to kill it. I'll note that horror themes are easily...

Sun Dragonbane session zero: ninety-eight percent done. (counting the hyphenate as a single compounded word.)

Fundamentally, within real world known physics, lasers and missiles are about the only real ways to do it. Particle beams and magnetic shielding are a secondary and its counter, but any serious space navy has mag shields for solar flares... making the race with PBs pretty weak. Due to most being...