aramis erak
Legend
The companion to the Star Wars poll. Prime Directive's a bit of a grey area, but I figured I'd include it anyway.
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Prime Directive really should be split out into the 3 major flavors - PD 1E, GPD and PD20/PD20M. I think that GPD sucks badly. I love PD 1E... PD1E wasn't mired in the SVCisms nearly as badly as either GPD or PD20.
Also, Starships & Spacemen is a case of "Didn't get the license, released anyway"...
I'd rank them, myself, thusly:
PD 1E - Best recreates the feel for me.
Decipher - Mechanically, I like the skills, not the talents. But I like it better than LUG, and it's good playing.
FASA - Not just nostalgia - I like the CGen process, and "Yet Another Percentile System" may be blah, but it also works for making it easy to run.
LUG -system's clunky bits really annoyed the hell our of me when running it.
S&S as Trek (Tho' I'd rank it much higher on its own)
GPD
PD20/PD20M
Heritage - no "there" there
Terra Games - even less there than Heritage.