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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9714735" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Though sometimes its really striking when they do.Bob Charrette and Paul Hume wrote a couple of RPG systems in the 80's called Aftermath! and Daredevils.  The system was relatively complex and detailed (though people sometimes overstate how much of a problem this was in play; most of it was pretty intuitive after a little experience and some of the more complex elements only came up intermittantly).Aftermath! was a generally usable post-apocalypse game, with some focus on actual rebuilding of things and supporting things like repair and building, and leaned a little into the gritty.  The system served a lot of the kind of experience pretty well there, and was doing desirable work for that purpose.Daredevils was a pulp adventure game, theoretically for the typical fast-adventure Indiana Jones thing you saw in the cinematic expressions.  The system could not have been more poorly suited for that other than its ability to do characters with a variety of orientations and foci.This is a perfect example of when if you're going to do a generic system, or reuse it for multiple games you have to apply some tools to customize the system for the purpose.</blockquote>