What Licensed RPG Do You Wish Used A Different System?

[schneeland]

Have any of you saying Shadowrun taken a look at the Savage Worlds version? I think it's called Sprawlrunners.
I'm curious how it is.

Yes, playing in a Sprawlrunners game for ~2 years now. IMO it's the best unofficial version of Shadowrun so far. Definitely very playable.
The only thing to consider is: if I you grew up on the d6 dice pool-based system (in my case, Shadowrun 2e), then the feel will still be noticeably different. So in an ideal world, a competent game designer would disassemble SR 2e and 4e into basic building blocks, then judiciously start building a system with the roughly same crunch-level as the Savage Worlds version.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Yes, playing in a Sprawlrunners game for ~2 years now. IMO it's the best unofficial version of Shadowrun so far. Definitely very playable.
The only thing to consider is: if I you grew up on the d6 dice pool-based system (in my case, Shadowrun 2e), then the feel will still be noticeably different. So in an ideal world, a competent game designer would disassemble SR 2e and 4e into basic building blocks, then start judiciously start building a system with the roughly same crunch-level as the Savage Worlds version.

Yes.

I’m a real stickler for official versions for certain games.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Avatar the Last Airbender. I don't like narrative games.

 

[Greg K]

Avatar the Last Airbender. I don't like narrative games.

I forgot about Avatar. Yeah, I want a different system for that as well

 

[Reynard]

I forgot about Avatar. Yeah, I want a different system for that as well

I contend that it literally would not have mattered what system that game used, it still would have KSed for $10m. It is a super powerful touchstone for the millenial generation.

I also guess (but can't prove) about 25% of the people that backed it assumed it was 5E based.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I contend that it literally would not have mattered what system that game used, it still would have KSed for $10m. It is a super powerful touchstone for the millenial generation.

I also guess (but can't prove) about 25% of the people that backed it assumed it was 5E based.

Fair enough. I bought it without any intention of running it, but I would have appreciated a more traditional system.

 

[Reynard]

Anything from Modiphius using the 2d20 system. It’s just way too much. Even the “light” versions are too heavy. And of course Star Wars.

Obviously, YMMV etc, but I really like the 2d20 system in general and I think the Star Trek implementation is especially good. It has just the right amount of crunch for that setting for me. By contrast, I think the supposedly "narrative" Genesys system is WAY to fiddle for Star Wars. A Star Wars game should flow like water in play and absolutely does not need skill trees.

 

[Umbran]

Anything from Modiphius using the 2d20 system.

I was going to say, that Modiphius' Star Trek could use a different underlying system. I think Cortex Prime would be a good option.

 

[Reynard]

I was going to say, that Modiphius' Star Trek could use a different underlying system. I think Cortex Prime would be a good option.

ETA: This was kind of rude of me. Don't be like me.

I reiterate: 2d20 works great for STA in actual play.

 

[Umbran]

I reiterate: 2d20 works great for STA in actual play.

This thread isn't "What licensed RPGs are people wrong about wishing that they used another system?"