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Best System for a West Marches Game?
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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5047438" data-attributes="member: 1129"><p>Given the game systems you list, and my own familiarity with some of them, I think Warhammer 2nd ed might be the best one.</p><p></p><p>While there is a climb in power, it's not as radical as D&D's in virtually any edition. It can't be because of you run it as is with ye old random career, the players don't start off equal, but generally have equality in survivability. This allows 'old pros' and young 'uns to hang out. Perhaps customizing the starting career chart to those you'd think might be appropriate. Although mind you, I'm always reminded of what a friend of mine used to love about those charts, "that's what you used to do. You're a new man now!" </p><p></p><p>In addition, because a lot of the game isn't XP for combat (unless I'm way misremembering here), there is motivation to do other things. The game is also not magic item heavy, although there are a ton of great magic items and whole books devoted to the magical side of things.</p><p></p><p>The monster system is also simple enough to gank stuff out of the table top if you have the miniatures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 5047438, member: 1129"] Given the game systems you list, and my own familiarity with some of them, I think Warhammer 2nd ed might be the best one. While there is a climb in power, it's not as radical as D&D's in virtually any edition. It can't be because of you run it as is with ye old random career, the players don't start off equal, but generally have equality in survivability. This allows 'old pros' and young 'uns to hang out. Perhaps customizing the starting career chart to those you'd think might be appropriate. Although mind you, I'm always reminded of what a friend of mine used to love about those charts, "that's what you used to do. You're a new man now!" In addition, because a lot of the game isn't XP for combat (unless I'm way misremembering here), there is motivation to do other things. The game is also not magic item heavy, although there are a ton of great magic items and whole books devoted to the magical side of things. The monster system is also simple enough to gank stuff out of the table top if you have the miniatures. [/QUOTE]
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