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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smeelbo" data-source="post: 5001147" data-attributes="member: 81898">Legends of AnglierreLegends of Anglerre will be releasing soon from Cubicle 7, and will be essentially FUDGE/FATE, Spirit of the Century and especially Starblazer Adventures mechanics, but in a fantasy setting. Very different from earlier fantasy games, emphasizing fast, on-the-fly, collaborative role-playing with enough mechanics to really work. For me it may be the D&D-killer, in that it will allow me to do what I long to do, that is create action packed stories with everything I need in one book, free from dependence on the whims and capabilities of a specific publisher. Grittier, and with more emphasis on drama and character development is Burning Wheel, and its various offspring, including The Blossoms Are Falling and Mouse Guard. In D&D-type games, the rules provide you not really with a character so much as a mechanically defined avatar, like a puppet, acting however the player wishes. A D&D character is, at least game mechanicly, not even really a character. Roleplaying exists only in so far as each player acts upon it, and the rules do not support character in any way (especially since 4E, where alignment and diety are practically without consequence). In contrast, about half the mechanics in Burning Wheel are the usual combat, skills, and conflict resolution, while the other half are character definition: what does the character believe, how do they act, what are their relationships to the world. Indeed, you cannot succeed in Burning Wheel without having an interesting character and acting on it. As a wise Mouse Guard once said, "It's not what you fight, it's what you fight for." Lastly, one of the oldest, most complete, bizarre, non-western fantasy settings would be the various incarnations of Tekumel, aka The Empire of the Petal Throne. Imagine if Tolkein had been South East Asian instead of European, and had been a Dungeon Master. Sadly, every rules incarnation has been nigh unplayable, but it is a fantasticly deep setting. So those are different. Smeelbo</blockquote>

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