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One thing that universal games allow you to do is create your own settings. My games of Other Worlds have included cyberpunk, Star Wars, WW2 zombie apocalypse, and epic fantasy (the four players created the four races of the world and played the chosen champions of those races, put together in a...

I'm bored of this now, I will disengage.

No game models anything accurately, but in any event I don't care about modelling anything accurately. What you're talking about is a playstyle issue (focus on verisimilitude) rather than a genre issue.

I'm not all that cynical about the general population. Most people reject AI slop and rightly so. You've tried to portray your acceptance of AI as the majority view but I think that's false.

I notice that once again you have made quite a big leap, from 'just about all works of art and design that exist' to 'Netflix movies', but nonetheless: You are saying that your position is that the writing, direction, acting, and production of such movies (or all movies) are all purely...

I think this is to much more to do with 5e's market dominance than any factor of the game design.

The sheer amount of people who die from eating spoiled food proves that spoiled food is delicious!

What an open-input conflict resolution system lets you do is give weight to the factors you're interested in. So, if you want to run a sort of hard scrabble post apocalypse game where scarcity of resources is a Big Deal, then you can make the securing of those things a goal of conflicts, failure...

Many people recommend Other Worlds, and also its author is apparently very handsome.

No it isn't. Name some examples.

"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert To me, this is the essential point. I designed a generic game (Other Worlds). It can do absolutely any genre. But it will do them in an Other Worlds way, where character backgrounds matter, players have a certain level...

Agreed. When I first wanted to run the Issaries RPG HeroQuest, I let the players choose what setting they wanted to use it for and they said Star Wars, which worked well. I guess what's good with Star Wars here is that the setting is enormous and fairly loosely-drawn, but also contains within...

Yes, but this doesn't mean you need to have a bespoke combat system, a bespoke driving system, a bespoke spaceship maintenance system, etc. You can have a broad resolution system that covers all those things and more besides.

I guess it might make sense if your one and only imperative is commercial, but it represents exactly the kind of race to the bottom that most people abhor. You also made quite the leap to go from 'not everyone appreciates it' to 'only artists appreciate it'.

This makes a lot of assumptions about what RPGs 'must' cover, including combat systems, resource management, bespoke subsystems, and equipment shopping lists. None of those are necessary.

I published such a game. My intent, and as far as I understand the intent of other such designers/publishers, is not to create something that can apply to any genre and any playstyle. That would be basically impossible. The universality is regarding genre and setting only. So you can run Star...

Well, much of nature is alive, so I'm not sure about soul. I also don't believe in a divine creator. But the process that creates birds, rivers, flowers, and sunsets is incredibly complex and multi-layered. It can be beautiful and soulful without having to have had a designer. But 'Lol...

AI art will never be good because it will never be art. It will have no soul or creative expression. It will only ever be a 'will this do?' copy and paste.

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All I ever knew of Shadowrun was i) the fantastic Larry Elmore cover that featured in every Dragon magazine at the time, and ii) the idea is a bit silly. I played it once about 16 years ago and it was way too complicated, I don't know what the FASA editions were like. It also seemed to take...