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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4064308" data-attributes="member: 19675">For me, GURPS always failed at the "Generic, Universal" stage- too many alternate rules for things like psionics in various settings.In contrast, HERO has never failed me, and I find Mutants & Masterminds an elegant hybrid of HERO and D20.However, I've never felt like characters in any universal system were amorphous.Games I wanted to like more than I do:I always wanted to like the 1Ed WoD games, but hated that they weren't in a single unified system- I always wanted my Mages, Werewolves, Vampires and the like to be able to encounter each other...RIFTS was another game that I always wanted to love.  In the end, though, the clunky mechanics forced me to abandon the game, but I keep mining the setting's fluff for campaigns in other systems.Space: 1889 was very well researched, but its mechanics are also clunky.  Again, its a game I mine for ideas more than actually play.</blockquote>