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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4776750" data-attributes="member: 80487">I played GURPS a fair bit when it was first released, and on into the second edition. As an old fan of The Fantasy Trip, I found some of the basics of the combat system pretty familiar and pleasing. Various other bits and bobs are nifty, too ... but the whole shebang eventually lost its appeal for the fellows with whom I was playing, and for me.Different people tend to like rules-heaviness in different areas. Also, there is no direct correspondence between that and "realism" in any sense. D&D 4E is by my standards a notably rules-heavy game -- but way down in the rankings in terms of verisimilitude.The GURPS magic rules can bring home the inflexibility of a complex system, if one has a quite different view of how that aspect of a fantasy world is to work.For a D&D-style game, I prefer ... good old D&D! I have never needed a heap of complicated rules to make it satisfyingly realistic. That comes from paying attention to the imagined world -- the first-order phenomenon -- not from getting buried from the start in a removed approximation.</blockquote>