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One thing of note here: I don't think that any Star Trek RPGs include Jedi as class or ability set (though it might have rules for psionics of some sort that could be used to fill some of those functions, but it might not be sufficient without house rules compromises). And I suspect it also...

Maybe Bard, Paladin, Ranger, Warlock probably. Maybe Artificer instead of Bard, and have the Ranger be spell-less except in some Fey/Nature Spirit related subclass. That means associating with powerful supernatural entities is the more common way to access magic, alternatively,y ou have to...

Draw Steel got rid of Constitution, for example. It has only Might, Agility, Reason, Intuition and Presence. 4E had Endurance and 3E had Concentration as Constitution skills, I think that was it. 4E used Constitution for some classes (Warlock for example), however. (I think 3E did for some of...

I think players shouldn't self-police actually. They should just play it as the Int 18 character having the smart idea. Because no one at the table is Int 3, but also no one is Int 18 either, so very likely, the party with that Int 18 Wizard should come up with way smarter plans than any single...

The last D&D character I played was with point buy, the last Pathfinder character was whatever Pathfinder uses with its background, class and race attributes bonuses. And for Shadowrun 6 I spent the build points I was allowed to spend according to my chosen priorities.

Time to pick a character than can deal with a dump stat, I suppose? Probably Charisma, probably Fighter or Wizard maybe?

I use the Forum List drop-down to go to the forum I wish to visit. Very often, I am opening multiple in tabs, and once I am inside a forum, I will scroll the list for topics of interest and open those in tabs.

But what if the player wants to play a mage? He just happens to want a simple mage? And what if the complex character enjoyer is tired of always playing spellcasters and really would like the flavor of playing a great warrior? One of the reasons I liked 4E so much was that it finally offered...

They can reuse the cast of voice actors freely, but I really think the story of our characters is mostly done and they don't need another world-saving adventure in their life. They could reappear as guest characters, I suppose, but even then, that might make your personal favorite play-through...

Yes. (Partial) nudity moving to fade-to-black it is. The rest is all to the richness of your imagination. (I wonder if some people using their imagination see things there that children shouldn't see, and don't realize that the children won't imagine those things because they simply lack the...

The more often you roll, the closer your average roll result is to the expected average. But it also makes it more likely that in some of the combats you experience, you will have very one-sided roll. A TPK due to a series of poor rolls might be "balanced" by 10 combats were you rolled slightly...

Speaking of old games like MMO2 - what ever happened to the Commander Keen series? Does anyone even remember that? I am not really sure I'd want to play Jump & Run games, but that's a 'property' that hasn't been used in forever.

It's certainly a good idea to use modern communication work to advance the plot instead of treating it as an obstacle. That said, it might also be a good idea from time to time for the horror entities to also use modern communication for themself. Maybe some cultists organize a flash mob, but...

"A game is a series of interesting choices" is one approach I like, and I guess that's the problem - what are the choices to make for space travel? I think you could probably create a space travel system that might have interesting choices, but it might not resemble anything you're familiar...

I'd expect the pact to be a major part of the story and this kinda fixed. Though since they aren't bound by the DnD 5 rules, they could very well have a Warlock that has many pacts instead of just one. And I wouldn't be surprised that if there is a character build component, you can pick...

Yes, that's something that is bothering me a lot, too. Sometimes, 1-20 is not enough range, but often, a range of 1-20 (with even distribution) really feels like too much and overriding the relevance of the skill proficiency bonus. With 3d6 as alternative it should be noted that modifiers can...

What traits and flaw system are you using a basis? I am not even aware of any, but 3.x has been some time for me and I probably haven't seen everything.

I was thinking about this after reading a thread about the "magic level" in D&D. How could you evoke a low level magic feel but still play someone that is a mage? I haven't really worked out a full solution, but the idea of using more rituals and making cantrips still something harder to pull...

I think the reason it works maybe is that the different roles are diverse and all contribute in some way directly to defeating the enemy, and are also all personally at risk. It's not like games have "party hit points" that the NPCs are removing when they attack someone - no, the enemy is going...

Yeah, it's something I've used before, including for homebrew systems. It seemed to make sense from a "versimilitude" perspective, it wasn't that exciting. What alternative approaches have you seen working? I mean, two ideas I had: 1) Every player is a combat pilot and you don't fly a Millenium...