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That is almost exactly what The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is about!

There are some on Amazon, here’s one for example: Fantasy World Maps. The publisher also has dungeon, town and village maps in the same...

I don't think its particularly hard to point at examples that lean heavily into that. D&D has been that pretty much from day one.

Nearly every edition of D&D is an exception based game? 4e is the odd one out.

I haven’t proposed a definition of exception based design?

I think with D&D the appearance of complexity at character creation is a negative in its own right to a big chunk of the (usually...

I think that is a likely take. One of D&D’s strengths is being easy for players to pick up (which is a good thing) whereas effects based...

I would call what @Thomas Shey is describing an effects based system. Even though Rob Heinsoo uses the label ‘exception based’ for the...

Ugh, sorry. Yes. I'll correct my prior post.

I presume you meant Fantasy Flight Games? I don’t see anything online that suggests they own Fantasy Grounds? Edit for typo

PDF is an open format, so you will always be able to use the material. Proprietary formats are subject to the whims of the corporate...

The lifepath system is something I will look into as that sounds like a rather interesting implementation of a ability score rolling...

The 2d20 games use a lifepath system, where the life events you roll for your character influence their stats. Some games like GURPS...

I’m another person who was a huge GURPS fan but would rarely run it these days. ‘Too fiddly for me’ is probably the easiest way to...

I haven’t used it personally, but there is an entire WWII line for GURPS 3e. I would agree that 4e is marginally better than 3e, and I...