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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with
Haha.
Luckily no one has ever advanced mocking criticism of the two RPGs I've spent more consecutive years playing than any others -... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.While I can understand the impulse to not like criticism of things one enjoys… and I know perfectly well that I do this myself from time...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.In thinking about it, I’m a bit odd in that I’m not big on generic systems… I dislike GURPS, I’ve never gotten into Savage Worlds, and...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with
Like.
The game that's closest to GURPS that I like is probably Savage Worlds. -
hawkeyefan reacted to soviet's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Haha.
And nor would you fill threads with endlessly repeated statements of that dislike.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.Honesty, GURPS is a pretty good litmus test for me. If a game feels like GURPS, chances are I’m not going to like it much.
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Haha.
The answer to this question is never 'grappling rules'.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.I don’t often play generic systems, but when I have, I tend to try and use the rules to create different characters. Can I use these...
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I think that in systems where roll is dice pool based (Burning Wheel and its cousins, BitD and its cousins, Prince Valiant, etc) people...
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Great minds and all that. :)
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If nobody else has mentioned it, V. Baker's "OSR" game draft takes exactly this approach.
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Worse, I think trying too hard to avoid being "meta" can actually (translation: "probably will") make the game less fun.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why I Hate Skills.Yeah, I’ve very much arrived at this stage of thinking. I just am not interested in worrying about “meta” elements in the same way many...
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These seem to be pretty similar ideas. A world where events occur with the regularity of a metronome is just as "meta" as the OotS...