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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9699863" data-attributes="member: 4937">Which is saying the same thing ultimately.  And you make that clear even once you get far enough in your explanation.Yes, so in other words rather than buying a cookbook I'm buying a prepared meal, possibly even one that has been cooked for me and not just arriving in one of those subscription meal services.  Or to put it another way, you aren't serving your own meal, you are serving their meal whether their meal is more buffet style or chef prepared or a subscription meal service, it's not a cookbook you bought.And that's not entirely unique to me.  I'd point at Paranoia or Chill or maybe even Gamma World as being games like that, albeit not as extreme as seems to have become common.  Maybe everyone is looking for some distinct schtick because all the obvious ones are taken.Oh, I definitely agree with that.  But the difference and the fact that the difference is not even a preference anymore, it's where the market seems to be, makes me feel old.Maybe I don't want my Arthurian adventure to be surreal.  I can with a ton of work get Pendragon to work for "Protector of the Small" by writing up new non-Arthurian cultures, but I can't get Mystic Bastion land to work for "Protector of the Small" without throwing out the game because surreal isn't what I'm going for there.  Maybe I could borrow a little bit of it as a travel subsystem or something, but it's not really geared to be anything other than "Mystic Bastion".</blockquote>

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