Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6593925" data-attributes="member: 82779">GURPS is one of those games where I have repeatedly heard the name, but I have no actual exposure to the system.  By contrast, I have skimmed the rules for FATAL because I found it hard to believe that a game could ever really be as bad as that one was described as being online.  It was that bad (Kudos to you, vast swaths of the internet community.  You agreed about something that wasn't a cat video or a conspiracy theory.  Good on you).One of the things that made running my courtly intrigue campaign in a D20 system (it was 4e, actually) work was that I had experienced roleplayers at the table, and I made sure that everyone understood that social skill checks would largely be determined by modifiers arising from actual RP.  It also helped that I used the skill challenge system (which has a spotty record among the D&D community, but which I and my players feel that I have been able to use with great success).Then a journal or something could work.  The PCs could even find a tapestry in a forgotten ruin that shows a vampire standing on a hill of corpses, with the vampire BBEG's symbol on an amulet around its neck.</blockquote>