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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 4642772" data-attributes="member: 8447">Hmmm, big question here.One system that I have used successfully for many different settings, one that is easy for even non-roleplayers to pick up on, is Over the Edge.  Similar to FUDGE and Spirit of the Century it is a "build your own idea" -- you decide on a Central Trait, two Side Traits, and a Flaw.  Very broad, very intuitive, but it does require a certain amount of GM-player input and interaction to get it to run smoothly.  Still, it is a game that I can get up and running within an hour, that the players grasp, and that a wide variety of people enjoy.On a more detailed level, I really like the HarnMaster system; in fact, it is probably the only straight-percentile system that I still like.  If you roll under your percentage, you succeed; if you roll over it, you fail.  If the roll ends in a 0 or a 5, you have a special success/failure.  Character creation has options for purely by chance, utterly by choice, or a mix-and-match method -- I prefer this latter.  Again, I have been able to move this to system to multiple settings.The revised World of Darkness system works pretty neatly.  It is a dice pool system where the dice pools don't get out of hand.  If you roll 8 or better, you have a success; if you roll less, you have a failure.  You count the number of successes to determine who is ahead or whether you have completed a task.  This is also a great system for introducing new gamers -- it is simple, obvious, and intuitive.  Of course there can be a fair amount of interpretation with the interactions between certain powers, but that is a comparatively simple matter as long as the players and GM get along well.  Ars Magica is good, but basically it works best as a fantasy/magic system.  I haven't really been able to port it over to something else, but it might work.  It is rather more difficult to explain to non-gamers, or even gamers who are only comfortable with a single system (a very large percentage of gamers in general).In the end, I prefer games that are cooperative over competitive.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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