Then the DM starts playing this music.

My mom’s favorite is the phrase “nothing discernable happens.”

“So ya know what happens when you…” is a terrifying way to begin a description of such a thing, too!

But you don’t understand! The Wraeththu are just better than us, so they know how to make things that look weak from the point of view of a dumb, inferior human, but they’re actually even better than katanas, which we all know to be the pinnacle of human weaponsmithing!

_/s

Oh, wow! TBZ reference!

Yeah, CthulhuTech has issues…

Cities Without Number’s paid version has what is very clearly “Shadowrun without the Shadowrun rules.” I haven’t tried much of the system, and none with the magic stuff, but it might be pretty good?

I recently played A Link to the Past for the first time, and several dungeons have rooms (and even big treasure chests) that are not necessary for completion. Still did it, though.