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5e Tomb of Annihilation (dropping for Call of Cthulhu, hopefully) and DCC (loving it). I'm leaving 5e (and its revised ed.) behind, something I should've done a long time ago.

I'm glad they are. I've recently left behind a long-time prejudice for DCC and, after GMing 5 sessions, I can safely say I'm home. DCC has earned its place alongside Call of Cthulhu and OD&D as my go-to games. Edit: minor fixes

Two decades of D&D taught me to never go with PCs as bodyguards, no matter their level. Odds are you'll end up in a cheap tavern armwrestling a thri-kreen for the prize of tasting his carapace or chasing a squirrel into Mirkwood because that's supper for today (although everyone has a fortnight...

"Milestone XP" is way better than "milestone leveling", IME. An actual number in the sheet lets the players know how far they've advanced and helps them evaluate the risk/reward of challenges. Also, it mitigates "when do we level up" kind of questions. Do your math, kiddo, you level up when you...

For real me? Ring of Haste. It's the 21st century, the age of many-things-at-once. Also, I'm not in the military, uniforms nor do I do fighting (pro or street), so Bless and Blur greatest effects would be rendered useless. If I put my dogs in the equation, though: Ring of Blur! They deserve...

You could treat Shield, Flame, Charm and Aard as skills, instead of spells, usable once per turn. The Witcher is never a full caster (or even half or third caster), but uses their few tricks often and get better in using them in time. Carcass Crawler #1, the 'zine from Necrotic Gnome...

The Gauntlet is missing a spot. That makes the Sixth Stone their eye. Huh, not bad, not bad...

I second that. In one of my last games, I had no clue how the party would "win" against the BBEG. I didn't even stat him or anything until 10 sessions in. He was there, from the very first session, as a voice through a monolith that catapulted the party into a race against time, but the "how to...

That, sir, is called busting a door with style. Things you learn at Barbarian School in class Busting Doors Advanced: How to Mix It with Beyoncé-inspired Moves.

A quick look at the props and I calmly thought: "Cool, a flashdrive with 3e logo". Then the big "2000" hit me...

Yeah, it's kind of weird we never got one. Final Fantasy RPG: that could challenge Avatar Legends for top 1 on Kickstarter.

OSE will have you worried about one and only one thing in your inventory: coins, be it silver or gold pieces. You pack a weapon or two, a piece of armor, and a backpack full of stuff and go adventuring. You note the weight (in coins) of those items with the backpack worth 80 no matter what you...

Charmed thief backstabs two characters [BX-OSE]

Pilot freezes, the kid pilots! [ALIEN]

Sure, but in terms of IP, TWD, World War Z, and even Zombieland are recognizable by the masses. DoW, not even close. I'm with you as in any of those can fit a Z-RPG and wouldn't make much of a difference. Except Zombieland, for the tone.

Dead of Winter does a good job as a board game. I don't see an IP there worthy of licensing, though. The crossroads cards are generic "zombie apocalypse trouble" and the name doesn't have brand recognition. You can do a DoW game with a different name.

Oh, I agree there are problems with the show. Granted, I've only watched the first two seasons and I'm aware of its story from third-party accounts from friends. I also think that Zombie games can only go so far, and when you enter the dystopian aspects, its becomes a broad genre, with many...

Sheer number. IIRC, 0.3% of humankind didn't succumb to the virus in the 48 hours or so of the outbreak. In a city like L.A., some 12,000 people found themselves trapped by 3,988,000 walkers in the span of 2 days. That's a lot of biting. Combine that to the fact no-one knew what the hell was...

I always thought The Matrix universe would make a cool RPG. Unfortunately, the last movie did very little to ignite the franchise again, and perhaps its esthetic is a bit dated. Yet the adventure setup is all there: awakened rebels hacking into the Matrix to run quests inside dynamic dung...