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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 4524900" data-attributes="member: 60965">In order: Exalted, 1st Edition - Favorite game system ever, in spite of its flaws, and awesome world.Alternity - Best generic Sci-fi system I've ever found.Dark Heresy - Great game system, huge, epic, dark universeStar Wars: SAGA - In case an overwhelming urge to play Star Wars came up.GURPS - If we were stranded on an island, would probably have enough time to figure out why so many people like it.  Saw potential in it when I ran it, but no-one had a good enough grasp on the rules in previous games. DnD isn't on my list for a couple reasons:1) 4E is too limited in what sort of games you can run, over the long stranded-on-an-island timeline.2) DnD tries to pigeon-hole you into hack-and-slash.  I love RPG combat, but it loses some when it's the primary/intended method of character advancement.3) 3.5 is dead to me.  It handles "generic" fantasy gaming far better than 4E, but I despise almost everything about high-level play(which for me starts about level 10 or so).4) Level-based RPG systems hold inherently less appeal to me than others because of the arbitrariness/power jump of the Level. Funnily enough, despite my anti-DnD diatribe here, my last game I ran was 3.5, and I'm playing in a 4e game and running one... It's fun, but there's a reason(s) why we've never bought much more than the core books for any edition and why there's 20 different RPGs on the gaming bookshelf.</blockquote>

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