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I played a fair bit of V:TM back in the day (1e and 2e) and ran a game of V5 just before the pandemic. I'd agree with your assessment; in fact, I'd say that V5's mechanics do a much better job at delivering on the horror element of the game than any prior edition.

This year's Gen Con is a little odd because some publishers from overseas won't be attending thanks to our current political situation - Rowan, Rook, and Decard aren't going to be there, and I think Pelgrane is missing the con as well. They typically run a good number of games using their systems.

I'm interested to see how they handle the mixed enemy pool situation for superheroes as well. One thought I had, similar to @Ruin Explorer 's suggestion of having the encounter change at various grit thresholds, would be to take a page from 2LM's earlier game, Household. In Household you play...

I wouldn't say it's good, exactly, but Once and Future King inspired a long-running desire to do a sci-fi take on the Arthur story. I've thought about doing it in a Battletech-ish setting, with possession of a mech being the rough equivalent to the arms and armor a knight would have possessed in...

A handful of other classes get AoE or multi-target at-wills - swordmages, artificers, battleminds, monks, and sorcerers get AoEs and rangers, fighters and barbarians have multi-target attacks.

I'm not @pemerton , but I've heard others express the idea that the fighter is the martial controller before. Fighters in 4e got a lot of powers that overlapped with controller abilities, including forced movement and imposing action-denying conditions. Other defenders could do this, but not to...

May I introduce you to World Wide Wrestling? I've not played the second edition, but I enjoyed the first quite a bit.

When 4e was just coming out, I ran a bunch of "Dungeon Delve" events at Gen Con with what was then called the RPGA. These were relatively short two-hour sessions that were essentially just three combats back to back, designed to show off the combat system, and there were prizes for getting...

Can't speak to the market, but Good Society is a Jane Austen RPG and is fairly well known. There's also a FATE World of Adventure called Romance in the Air which takes Austen as an inspiration, but in a more action-heavy setting. Regency Cthulhu name checks Austen on the cover, but I wouldn't...

A suggestion: rather than make firearms more complex, just make them better if you want them to be a significant feature of the campaign. I tried to go down the route you're exploring when I did a 5e pirates campaign, and the result was that no one ended up using firearms; they simply weren't...

The rules in the quickstart for TA aren't quite the same as the rules in the final game - I believe the quickstart is the Delta Test, which was also the final public playtest for the game. In the full rules, you're basically just counting 3s.

In my experience, the silicone dice are also quite bouncy. I don't know if I'd say they're unusable, but they're right on the borderline. I've tested a bunch of sets at Gen Con over the past few years. I think you can manage if you're rolling them on a surface that'll mute the bounciness. I...

Frosthaven is sadly a very bad game to learn from; the rulebook is geared toward people who've already played Gloomhaven and understand the basic mechanics. You might try looking for a Gloomhaven tutorial? The digital version of GH might work as well. For games in general, I typically am the one...

There's at least two families of games in the Gumshoe space, IMO - you have maximalist implementations, like Trail of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, and Mutant City Blues, with very large skill lists and special-case rules/subsystems. Night's Black Agents is probably the best exemplar here, with...

Minor quibble: It's called the Isle of the Necromancer Kings, and it involves a lost society of necromancers, mostly of the evil stripe, with a mostly-uninhabited island playing host to a lot of ruins and a few powerful necromancers intent on plundering them. It is still quite cool, IMO.

A reflavored Rune Knight fighter might work.

A few others that came to mind: Cthulutech is all about various invasions, including at least one traditional invasion of aliens from outer space in the form of the Mi-Go, but it's also tied heavily into the Cthulhu mythos and has way more edgelord bull than I like. The very first Palladium RPG...

A few other possibilities: The Dark Matter setting for Alternity (original recipe) and D20 Modern features your more conspiracy-laden, X-Files-esque alien invasion. Back in the distant days of AD&D 2e, there was a boxed set called Tale of the Comet featuring a 'standard' D&D world getting...

Relic by the now-defunct Bandit Camp is a failed Kickstarter; its creator has left the gaming space after some personal issues. Urban Shadows 2e is finally being delivered, but 3-4 years late, with the people who pledged for the limited edition getting hurt the worst by delays. The one I'm...

I've been enjoying Triangle Agency recently, and while I don't know if it has the best art it definitely has very evocative art that really gets the mood and tone of the game across. I'd also put Symbaroum in the same category. Everything by 2 Little Mice also deserves mention - Household...