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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9594774" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Rules Light: much of my experience with it is that every rules call feels decided by GM whim, even if it's done strictly by extant rules. The only exception has been in rotating GM, as in Cosmic Patrol. I found, running Toon, that the rules, while limiting to genre, didn't work to make GMing easier, and my players felt that my calls were capricious; when I showed them the official SJG errata, they realized they weren't. In having read Risus, there's nothing there of any value to me as a GM, nor as a player; I want the rules to limit the options so as to reduce analysis paralysis, and to help enforce the genre. Only a few rules light games have done that for me... Cosmic Patrol, Teenagers From Outer Space/Star Riders, GW's Judge Dredd.I also don't like a zillion additional obligatory minigames, tho' I don't mind a few..I like to run games that are near the middle of the GNS trigraph.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9594774, member: 6779310"] Rules Light: much of my experience with it is that every rules call feels decided by GM whim, even if it's done strictly by extant rules. The only exception has been in rotating GM, as in [I][U]Cosmic Patrol[/U][/I]. I found, running [I][U]Toon[/U][/I], that the rules, while limiting to genre, didn't work to make GMing easier, and my players felt that my calls were capricious; when I showed them the official SJG errata, they realized they weren't. In having read Risus, there's nothing there of any value to me as a GM, nor as a player; I want the rules to limit the options so as to reduce analysis paralysis, and to help enforce the genre. Only a few rules light games have done that for me... [I][U]Cosmic Patrol[/U][/I], [I][U]Teenagers From Outer Space[/U][/I]/[I][U]Star Riders[/U][/I], GW's [I][U]Judge Dredd[/U][/I]. I also don't like a zillion additional obligatory minigames, tho' I don't mind a few.. I like to run games that are near the middle of the GNS trigraph. [/QUOTE]

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