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For battle maps specifically, assuming you are playing face-to-face, map books are great. I have a collection of Loke Battlemap books and they can be used to spin up an interesting and sufficiently representative map in a few seconds. All their books are designed to work together so you can mix...

I still feel RM has one of the best class and level system implementations for that reason. By the time you got all the 2e Companions there was something crazy like 50 classes, too. Pretty much every imaginable niche had a class or three (one per type of magic) covering it.

We have a rotating roster of 4-5 GMs in my two regular groups, so I get to play more than I GM.

I get great value out of map books, in my case Loke but others are available. They have a wide array of fantasy map books, plus some sci-fi and cyberpunk stuff.

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Want more Hite? Luck is in - there is a Bundle of Holding on his stuff!

That almost exists… Suppressed Transmissions 1 & 2

It was pretty de rigueur for BECMI D&D. You got XP for the treasure you extracted from the dungeon / adventure and encumbrance was actually measured in coins so the concept was sign posted very strongly.

I’m no longer sure what my second RPG after BECMI D&D would have been. There are some contenders based on publication dates. It might have been FASA Star Trek, James Bond 007, or DC Heroes 1e. We tried all those and my memories are of playing them with my very first group when I was still in...

Are you thinking of Wild Cards, @Committed Hero ?

At the moment I would feel like I have lots of dungeon crawling options open to me. Both Draw Steel and Daggerheart would be really interesting to try. I still haven’t gotten Dragonbane to the table, or The Fantasy Trip either. Then I have stalwarts of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy or an implementation...

That’s no different from death due to combat, however.

in my mind it’s the difference between the Indiana Jones films and the Lord of the Rings books. With Indy films we ride the red line across the map and get straight to the action. With LotR we get detailed exposition on their demanding journey. Both can be great but you need to be cued up for...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 16 - Wilderness Adventures has some very detailed rules for overland adventures. You could certainly use it to make travel or exploration the focus of an adventure. I used this once with my group when we were trying out GURPS Dungeon Fantasy as a short campaign and it...