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<blockquote data-quote="VacuumJockey" data-source="post: 5439545" data-attributes="member: 62335">Well, if you like fantasy, <a href="http://www.cubicle-7.com/legends/legends.php" target="_blank">FATE: Legends of Anglerre</a> is an excellent toolkit game. It also works really well for GM's who like to improvise. Plus, it's very complete - you can build dominions, guilds, armies, battlebarges, giant robots, etc with just the basic rules; they cover a lot of ground. (That said, FATE can be a bit too hippieish for some people, so be sure to read reviews and stuff before you buy! :0 )There's also <a href="http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=479" target="_blank">Chaosiums BRP</a>. The basic system is fairly simple, and there's a multitude of optional rules you can add to tweak your campaign just the way you like it. Add the <a href="http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?cPath=37&amp;products_id=5045" target="_blank">Classic Fantasy</a> supp, and you can do almost any edition of D&amp;D - with a skillbased semi-classless system no less! Finally, there's <a href="http://shop.cubicle7store.com/REIGN-Enchiridion-PDF-Bundle-SALE-PRICE" target="_blank">REIGN: Enchiridion</a>. This is another complete game, with the innovative one-roll system. Very cool, but like BRP perhaps best suited for more 'realistic' powerlevels, i.e. Conan, Fafhrd &amp; the Mouser, Solomon Kane and so on. If you want D&amp;D-style dimension-hopping archmages, FATE is perhaps the better choice. IMO, YMMV and so on.And again, be sure to check reviews - nothing worse that buying a good game that just isn't to your liking. Been there, done that... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="VacuumJockey, post: 5439545, member: 62335"] Well, if you like fantasy, [URL="http://www.cubicle-7.com/legends/legends.php"]FATE: Legends of Anglerre[/URL] is an excellent toolkit game. It also works really well for GM's who like to improvise. Plus, it's very complete - you can build dominions, guilds, armies, battlebarges, giant robots, etc with just the basic rules; they cover a lot of ground. (That said, FATE can be a bit too hippieish for some people, so be sure to read reviews and stuff before you buy! :0 ) There's also [URL="http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=479"]Chaosiums BRP[/URL]. The basic system is fairly simple, and there's a multitude of optional rules you can add to tweak your campaign just the way you like it. Add the [URL="http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?cPath=37&products_id=5045"]Classic Fantasy[/URL] supp, and you can do almost any edition of D&D - with a skillbased semi-classless system no less! Finally, there's [URL="http://shop.cubicle7store.com/REIGN-Enchiridion-PDF-Bundle-SALE-PRICE"]REIGN: Enchiridion[/URL]. This is another complete game, with the innovative one-roll system. Very cool, but like BRP perhaps best suited for more 'realistic' powerlevels, i.e. Conan, Fafhrd & the Mouser, Solomon Kane and so on. If you want D&D-style dimension-hopping archmages, FATE is perhaps the better choice. IMO, YMMV and so on. And again, be sure to check reviews - nothing worse that buying a good game that just isn't to your liking. Been there, done that... :( [/QUOTE]

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