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The "solve a murder" mystery is the basic structure of most games. But you can also have a sandboxy "the cult is present, they're not trying to destroy the world, but their presence is nonetheless bad for everyone" setup. This might be preferable since a Keeper doesn't need to end the campaign...

We played the original Shadows of Yog-Sothoth in high school, and the Keeper had made props for the Arc of Vlactos and others. It left a lasting impression on me for sure.

This thought linking Westerns and Call of Cthulhu is never far from my Keeper's heart.

Likewise, The Fall of Delta Green is in the DG setting but set in the 1960s. I have a player who has used the same character in both settings (although I'm only involved in one of them). Both Traveller and Ars Magica have set new editions of the game at differing points of their timeline. And...

Anything that uses a chart to determine a result is not modern. Any system that uses more than one mechanic to resolve activities isn't modern (I'll call combat an edge case - hit point subsystems arguably constitute a second mechanic, and they are 50 years old!). OSRIC systems are designed to...

I'd estimate 2/3 ad lib.

If you are only writing for yourself, you can cut corners you wouldn't do when writing for an audience. Of course, many of us develop our thoughts further when we do write things down, but even then you can be less consistent and clear in your personal writing. I think the biggest trap is to...

John McClaine in Die Hard. We know running across broken glass with bare feet will hurt, but the only effect it has is staining the windows.

I am looking for up to 3 or 4 souls to try a play by post adventure using The Fall of Delta Green. The PCs will be members of that group investigating a multi-day rock festival in Rhode Island; think Woodstock with Cthulhu.

Player buy in is almost as important as in a horror game. At a minimum I would want all players to agree whether secret identities are important or not (since this affects the kind of personal stories you can use), and whether the heroes will be keeping to a moral code with respect to killing...

How much setting details does this contain?

Honestly, the Sentinel Comics RPG What?

The horror reveal in the Delta Green scenario Convergence is the best I've ever experienced. It was CoC at the time it was released.

I expect you hand-wave the trip back to the haven.

The d10 is a latecomer, probably because it's not a platonic solid. In some instances, the Genesys rules have you apply the dice results mathematically, but in others, they allow for narrative interpretation. So it can feel inconsistent. In play I thought Genesys handles large combats as well...

Outgunned would be the easiest. Night's Black Agents if you wanted supernatural elements (or don't mind using the mod in back for mundane action).

I can't say it any better that that, so I will add "mechanics that promote synergies in team fighting itself." Supers gaming suffers from a variation of James Bond's laser watch problem, where the emulation of other media in an rpg strains to operate. If a character has two powers, but one is...

A class/level system has its benefits; the game distanced itself from them to its detriment.

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The One Ring starter set sold out, but there were still lots of 5e copies available on Sunday.