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I am super stoked for M&M 4e. I had a lot of fun with 2e, but never did play 3e. The third edition was beautifully streamlined in some ways, such as the powers, but then added cruft in that seemed unnecessary (two new stats), plus some other stuff I didn't like. 4e feels like a marriage between...

Add me to the list of folks who count 2e M&M as an upgrade. This is especially true with Ultimate Power. I like the changes to the powers in 3e, overall. But I didn't like some other things, like skills and adding attributes. From what I have seen of 4e, I will be adding it to the upgrade...

I consider GURPS 4e an all around upgrade. While the text book nature of the rules make it a less fun read, I like how it all comes together in two books. I have come back to GURPS after a 20+ year break from the system, and am considering running it after my current SotWW games end. I never...

My first two are easy: 1. GURPS 4e 2. Mutants & Masterminds (probably 4e, from the way it is shaping up) With those two systems, the breadth of games I could run is pretty vast. After that it becomes harder to pin down a third system. I thought about Cortex for the quick games or one-offs...

This is my answer as well. I had planned on running a GURPS fantasy game, but then other factors arose, leading me to... I am currently running two SotWW games. I switched my plan from GURPS to SotWW as I had some newbs wanted to play in a game, but I didn't want to put them in with my all...

A subset of narrativism that I find to be particularly modern is more hardcoded genre emulation. Mutants & Masterminds generally emulates genre via character capabilities and actions. Its rules can be used to create most comic book superheroes and then play out their actions and adventures. The...

I would posit that while you seem to place a lot of value on this, it is meaningless to potential consumers.

The playmats I had printed were offset squares. And, I did mention the facing issue above, and thus why they aren't a great idea for GURPS.

Most of my use of offset squares was 4e D&D, and so I tended to have larger rooms to allow for a lot of movement, so the two of the walls in a larger square room that had half squares didn't come up as often. But I get your point.

I always just treated them as whole squares. Sometimes it felt dd, depending on the layout, but other than for hallways it didn't come up that much.

Though now that I think about it, that wouldn’t work for the more tactical combat rules in GURPS all that well, since it doesn’t work well with facing. But other than that, offset squares are awesome.

My favorite kind of grid is offset squares. You get a lot of the benefits of both squares and hexes. I used to get my own custom offset square battlemat printed and laminated. I wish Foundry had that as an option for the grid.

I have no answer for the second item, other than "Don't," which isn't helpful. As for the one second combat rounds, it does take some getting used to. What I have generally done in the past is to simply say that turns are from one to three seconds, depending on what is happening. I wouldn't try...

That would be article "The Last Gasp" in Pyramid 3/44, if anyone is interested in reading it.

I used to really love the default spells as skills magic system for GURPS, back in the 2e and 3e days. Coming back to GURPS via 4e, I find the system hasn't aged as well as I'dve liked. It doesn't help that it was a rush job not properly aligned with other 4e rules. I still like it, and can see...

Those are wildcard skills. There is an entire book on using wildcard skills to reduce the size of the GURPS skill list.

I started GURPS back with the 2e boxed set. I ran a fair amount of the game back in the day. Cyberpunk, superheroes, scifi, and, of course, fantasy. I loved it to pieces...until I didn't. At some point I found it kind of a sprawling mess, and didn't feel like the Compendiums went far enough. I...

I gave up on GURPS 25 years ago or so, and have come back to it recently. This is part of the reason why. I, too, am a constant tinkerer. In recent years, a lot of my tinkering has been working on my own game systems. While I have a lot of work into two different games, to the point of being...

While it wouldn't have solved you other issues, there is now GURPS 4e – Skill Categories, which is free. It groups skills into, well, categories, and makes it much easier to eyeball what skills might be useful for a character. As for statting our creatures, a lack of a decent bestiaries is a...

I haven’t run an RPG in a decade or so. I went from mostly running games to mostly playing. So this year I’m going to finally get back into running something as GM. It is looking like I’ll be doubling down, too, and will likely be running two games. Two wholly separate groups, but same system...