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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9731458" data-attributes="member: 4937">1) Skill system doesn't cover all the tasks someone can purpose to do, leading to squinting as to what skill should cover what.2) Skill system conversely doesn't cleanly divide tasks so that there is lots of overlap, leading to either arguments over the skill to use or some skills being much more valuable than others because they take up such a large percentage of possible propositions.3) The rules set doesn't reward imagining being in the game universe but instead rewards talking about playing the game.4) The rules set is breakable in a way that runs contrary to the intentions of the game play, for example, making key aspects of the gameplay irrelevant because its easy to make a character with attributes that let them ignore that aspect of the game.5) The skill system has too many skills making being competent too hard.6) The game strongly assumes what the game is about even though the setting itself does not make that same assumption leading to situations where the players reasonable and plausible in game choices are invalid because the game says you shouldn't play that way.7) The rules set punishes a player for creating a character in an intuitive fashion usually because it is point buy or effectively so and underprices Johnny One Shots.  I'd almost go as far as to say, "The game is point buy" since most of such games invariably have arbitrary prices for character features that in no way relate to the actual value obtained in game.Probably some of the worst designed games I've encountered are RIFTS, GURPS, and Vampire: The Masquerade.  Ironically, all were successful though for different reasons.</blockquote>

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