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<blockquote data-quote="dialNforNinja" data-source="post: 7636989" data-attributes="member: 6999704"><p>BESM/TriStat in general</p><p>Champions 4th or 6th ed</p><p>Mekton Zeta</p><p>FASAtrek</p><p>WOIN NEW with FASAtrek ships</p><p>WEG D6 Star Wars/OpenD6</p><p>EABA, because "roll a dice pool, keep the best three or sometimes four" is just <em>inspired</em></p><p>GURPS has some great sourcebooks but I've never made a character for it let alone played</p><p></p><p>The concepts of TOON and Tales of the Floating Vagabond had some appeal, but I couldn't get into the mechanics, and TotFV wasn't in my car when I had a house fire like most of the above were, and I haven't gotten replacements.</p><p></p><p>I've tried making a few homebrew game systems, but the only one that even comes close to complete was a lightweight thing with d8 dice pools , because counting four pips per die made for more intuitive halves and quarters mental math than three pips per die as in WEGd6 and all other d6 pool games that bother with partial dice at all. I also managed to fit exactly eight skills under each of the stats (Strength, Guts, Brains, and Footwork) and have suitably wide coverage for all the cases I could think of, though that includes things like "Expert Knowledge (specify field)" and similar placeholders for manufacturing and service professions.</p><p></p><p>Oh, you meant video games?</p><p></p><p>Uh. I was a fiend for Carmageddon and Carmageddon II back in the late 90s... I bought a PS3 to play Macross 30, LEGO Star Wars, and the Disgaea games a couple years ago... and I recently got Disgaea 5 Complete for PC. That's a lot of games to play, right? I haven't even finished all the postgame on any of the Disgaea games! Even if you don't count fighting Maximum Ultimate Carnage Extra Cheese Baal! </p><p></p><p>Oh, and I had Tron 2.0 and Transformers: War for Cybertron on PC in the middle there somewhere too, but I sucked at them, um, a lot.</p><p></p><p>And Morrowind, but in three tries at playing that I've gotten half an hour into the story, 3Gb into downloading mods, and around three months into muckin' about with the editor, so I don't think that really counts as playing the game. I did get really really good at getting through the new game character generation scenes so I could open the Loot4U box right outside the door out to the starter town and play with whatever I put in it this time, though! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dialNforNinja, post: 7636989, member: 6999704"] BESM/TriStat in general Champions 4th or 6th ed Mekton Zeta FASAtrek WOIN NEW with FASAtrek ships WEG D6 Star Wars/OpenD6 EABA, because "roll a dice pool, keep the best three or sometimes four" is just [I]inspired[/I] GURPS has some great sourcebooks but I've never made a character for it let alone played The concepts of TOON and Tales of the Floating Vagabond had some appeal, but I couldn't get into the mechanics, and TotFV wasn't in my car when I had a house fire like most of the above were, and I haven't gotten replacements. I've tried making a few homebrew game systems, but the only one that even comes close to complete was a lightweight thing with d8 dice pools , because counting four pips per die made for more intuitive halves and quarters mental math than three pips per die as in WEGd6 and all other d6 pool games that bother with partial dice at all. I also managed to fit exactly eight skills under each of the stats (Strength, Guts, Brains, and Footwork) and have suitably wide coverage for all the cases I could think of, though that includes things like "Expert Knowledge (specify field)" and similar placeholders for manufacturing and service professions. Oh, you meant video games? Uh. I was a fiend for Carmageddon and Carmageddon II back in the late 90s... I bought a PS3 to play Macross 30, LEGO Star Wars, and the Disgaea games a couple years ago... and I recently got Disgaea 5 Complete for PC. That's a lot of games to play, right? I haven't even finished all the postgame on any of the Disgaea games! Even if you don't count fighting Maximum Ultimate Carnage Extra Cheese Baal! Oh, and I had Tron 2.0 and Transformers: War for Cybertron on PC in the middle there somewhere too, but I sucked at them, um, a lot. And Morrowind, but in three tries at playing that I've gotten half an hour into the story, 3Gb into downloading mods, and around three months into muckin' about with the editor, so I don't think that really counts as playing the game. I did get really really good at getting through the new game character generation scenes so I could open the Loot4U box right outside the door out to the starter town and play with whatever I put in it this time, though! :p [/QUOTE]
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