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There's a couple of games that do this. My current favorite is the newer Otherscape. Cyberpunk genre as a general topic: My favorites have always been the stories that are not about the future internet nor cybernetics. But about larger society or otherwise deeper topics.

When the alignment system came about the games were just moving from wargame to roleplaying game and what that meant was still a little fuzzy. Alignment makes sense when you think of the characters as 'units' in a simulation. These guys are the Mayans, those guys are the Aztecs, those guys are...

Something I keep looking for and not seeing in tRPGs is Undead as seen from some MesoAmerican, Latin American, and Indigenous sources. Most of these might still be horror, but there’s curious space for some creative lore here - maybe that skeleton hanging out with the kids is an ancestor...

What can be fascinating is to look at actors who played "that dude is seriously old" characters in past decades and realize they were often in their 30s or 40s. At the time I often look at people my age and they can look really old. Yet my friends who are my age don't look so old. And I wonder...

Both have been updated. Their pagecount is different but this is because the one on DriveThru splits it into 3 PDFs and one direct from CR has it all in one PDF file.

Yeah. Whether I've favorited extremely detailed system or very light systems, very narrative systems or very gamist systems - I've always held to liking very CONSISTENT systems. Have some common metrics, and re-use them everywhere instead of making 'special mechanics and subsystems' for so many...

Yeah I took almost 2 decades off from the hobby (2005-2022) and that leads me having to put caveats around a lot of things. Which I sometimes forget to do. Like my perception of rules light vs rules heavy is shaped by games like Rolemaster, GURPS, And D&D 3.5 vs Amber, Everway, BESM, etc… Then...

Yeah. In consider Mist engine rules light because the "rules" fits on a 2 page spread that is half art. There's a several hundred page book but it's mostly guidance on how to do rulings. It's a multi-hudred advice column. Like the ancient game 'Go' - the rules for that can fit on an index...

What a difference a bit of time can make. The me of late 2025 is on the other side of this split from the me of early 2025. Over the course of 2025 I saw my Pathfinder game start to unravel, and right as that was happening Daggerheart hit. For a long time I've only seen 'rules light systems'...

You could go another way with that too. A WWI style 'hopeless war for no reason' scenario. Everyone always sets things in worlds AFTER the Time War, or where there's some Time Agency. But what about setting it in the final parts of a doomed time war where everyone is going to lose but they're...

CW is/was (didn't they go out of business?) mostly a teen network, and they like ensemble casts. My guess is they think the way to get teens to pay attention is to have a bunch of adults act like overly EMO versions of teens and spend hours on relationship drama. Every one of their shows is...

I liked that. They were rural folksy people with good hearts. Today’s politics has us all thinking rural people are hopelessly lost in a cult which just isn’t true. I liked that Gunn made them true to form and let them be country people as well as an ethical center for Clark.

This is a Supergirl who who watched her home planet die. She’s got trauma to work through. Unlike Superman she also likely knew all along that the Kryptonians intended not to help Earth but to invade it. Going somewhere else and getting wasted has probably been a way of avoiding that. Next...

I just put 9 or so links into the first post in the thread. :)

Nah this keeps getting buried. Despite being the number two seller on DriveThruRPG there seems to be very little hype for the game. That said there’s a surprising number of actual plays out there. Especially if you expand your search timo include their other two older games - handy for seeing...

The different actual plays have revealed to me that you really need to bring in a lot if narrative play like the GMing advice of Daggerheart noted, and some Group Design - pejoratively known as description on demand, and I forget the real name but will edit once I have it. That’s needed to...

Bumping since we’ve got another thread picking up on it also. I’ve spent the time between then and now trying to find a group running it but most of them are on European time. Also picked up Otherscape and have been reading both and listening to actual plays. I think Mist in general is now my...

Quite a few people just simply never were on the ride, or only slightly so. I started tRPGs in a one-shot in 1980 at my cousin's but that never went anywhere and it's a side of the family I've not even seen since that day. So... in 82 two things happened. I got the D&D basic set as a birthday...

This analysis really hit home for me on that point, and the contrast with Superman in the new movie. It's also an insanely brutal takedown of both the older movie, it's director, and that director's "faith"...: And on topic. It shows how two radically different ways of handling violence leaves...

Folks probably won't understand my perspective. Since I'm in the middle of working through it I'm not sure I fully understand it yet either. This topic has been on my mind a LOT of late. Especially after watching comparisons between the new Superman movie and the one where he was evil from a...