Recent content by Fenris-77

No, it doesn't, but that doesn't mean that's not how the CR and class mechanics were designed. Hence the ... issues.

This is the issue, yes. You need to readjust this whole metric is you want things to feel different.

This seems about right. 5E has been turned to other purposes, as has Blades. Frankly, I like the Blades iterations more than the 5E ones, but part of that is that is just so much fat to trim with 5E to get down to a useful, portable system. Neither system is 'universal' as written (or even that...

That makes two of us. :D Perhaps familiarity is a barrier here? I don't know how familiar you are with the Blades mechanics or the host of other games that have purposed them in various ways.

Pardon? The core rules are not 'built for fantasy' at all (and less so that D&D is), and the downtime rules only need adjustment and reskinning to work for pretty much anything. Most games have an implied downtime phase. There's a reason why BitD turned into FitD and has produced so many...

I think you're conflating the rules and the setting. 5E doesn't have anything but the vaguest 'fantasy' setting implied, where BitD has Duskvol. Strip those both out and you get similarly useful mechanical chassis. D&D has a lot more fantasy baked into its core mechanics than Blades, which, IMO...

Yeah, no. 5E isn't remotely generic in its design and implementation. I'm not even sure why you'd say that. The underlying mechanical chassis is more that thing, but not the game as written. For both 5E and BitD we need to strip away setting conceits before we have something even remotely...

What people have used it for and what its designed for are two different things. Intentional design is a break point here. GURPS is designed to be universal while an example like FitD has been used pretty universally but wasn't designed or presented to do that job. Most base mechanics can be...

My published setting for Shadowdark does have the printing press (and firearms). That said, I haven't explored the book aspect of the setting too deeply. My current project, a city supplement, is putting the printing press front and center however. Broadsheets sold on streetcorners by shouting...

We also shouldn't assume that with D&D that the various mechanics remain as-is in a different genre approach. If you take some mechanical steps to limit HP accrual the combat system works quite differently (as you can see with Shadowdark, for example).

Oh yeah, I know they are different in lots of ways, but SW has a lot more in common with GURPS than any other game I currently play.

The game that's closest to GURPS that I like is probably Savage Worlds.

No, but I just did even if was just for rhetorical effect. Who got hurt there? No one, that's who. There's no problem to fix here. @Thomas Shey - I agree completely, but I don't think that's what's happening in this case.

I quite enjoy disagreeing disrespectfully. We need to respect other posters, not the games they may or may not like. For example, I think GURPS is a festering pile of monkey poo and I'd rather have my ears ripped off by a baboon than either run or play it. Does that mean someone else shouldn't...

No one is going to answer those questions, my friend. Why would they? It looks like you are trying to pick a fight that has nothing to do with thread. I'm just going to sail on my merry way with a polite no thanks. We can all have our opinions this evening as far as I'm concerned.