Owen K. C. Stephens

If you're into playing dragon-people then this is for you, but it didn't grab me at all and I'll stick with my dwarf cleric!

A way cleaner system than Dungeons and Dragons (even 4th edition)

Even if you're not big on Star Wars, the various role-playing possibilities of that universe are effectively exploited. There is far less emphasis on number-crunching, and yet the rules derived from the fairly-simple numeric structure seem far more intuitive than the grand D20 framework it borrowed from.

This will be immensely useful if I can get my players to take the pilot skill. In the meantime, I can just drool over the many space battles that I can't participate in, and pine over that particular starcraft that I could never afford unless I had pulled-off that last great heist against the trade confederation. Sigh. Gimmie that really old-time feeling, in a galaxy oh so far away.

I'm currently getting ready to GM a system I've never played before, so I'm doing a lot of reading from a number of books at once. It's an odd sensation to be doing this again, but quite fun. A decent rpg, so far. I suppose I was guessing it would be a great deal different from the 3.5 ruleset, but it turns out to be only significantly different. We shall see very soon how well everyone enjoys it.