An Eerie Epiphany: I'm Done With RPG Books

[delericho]

Yeah, I'm pretty much done too, although for different reasons.

My current D&D campaign is set to run for another 2 years. After that, I have at least five more campaigns sitting ready to be run, plus enough one-shot adventures, pre-gen modules and Adventure Paths to last me for more than a decade of play.

Coupled with that is my strong suspicion that most games run better with fewer supplements. This is certainly true of 3e - adding material beyond a point (or adding the wrong material) definitely makes the game worse for me. It's also true of 4e although the breakpoint is different (4e almost needs something beyond the PHB/DMG/MM, but the 'full' game is most definitely over-saturated with options, IMO.)

So, I think I'm covered. Between D&D 3.5e, nWoD, SWSE, WFRP 2e and Savage Worlds I have enough to tide me over.

(Sadly, I don't have my 'golden system' - something that plays like D&D 3.5e but with much less complexity. But I'm more or less of the opinion that to get that I'll have to write it myself.)

 

[ExploderWizard]

TWERPS doesn't work as the basis of a real game, though. It's got one attribute: Strength. How do you play the Smart Man in that system? The rules don't support any character differentiation. The mechanic isn't interesting for a serious game.

Don't get too hooked up on terminology. Replace 'Strength' with WAAHHH!!! or Awesomillitude. Once you have a basic scale of how much WAAHHH! any given character has compared to another entity you can define the particulars differently for each one.

 

[SpydersWebbing]

It is utterly fantastic to me that in the last 24 hours I've seen White Wolf mentions offhandedly invoke melodromatic tween romance, vampire assassins vomiting blood, and the Nosferatu luchador with the largest brazos in the World of Darkness. It's like watching a description of an elephant come together.

Or (in the case the poster you were responding to) someone who had never seen an elephant in his life, but had read Lord of the Rings and heard of Oliphants and, based off of that description, knew, just knew, what an elephant looked like and he'd be damned if anyone told him different.

 

[vagabundo]

Oh I've not seen a&a before. I like the idea. Great for one shots. Although I think for my group I'd need a big list of sample archetypes. I like the levelling up scheme too.

Any actually played it?