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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6692363" data-attributes="member: 4937">[MENTION=49099]jedijon[/MENTION]: I was initially very interested in the Grimm game, as I am a great fan of faerie tales - both old folk lore and new literary stories written in the mode of a fairy tale ('The White Cat', 'The Light Princess', 'The Selfish Giant', 'Through the Fire', 'The Hobbit', 'Star Wars', etc.).Unfortunately, the game itself didn't live up to my expectations.  I was unhappy with the move from the D20 mechanic to the flat d6 mechanic.   There is hardly a point in having a fortune mechanic with no fortune in it.   Yes, there are times when if what you are going for is realism that you want only minimal variation in the fortune - how much you can lift, how far you can jump, how fast you can run, etc.   But the vast majority of contests aren't like that and are decidedly boring if you know basically how they will come out.   And yes you are right, more so that most systems, Grimm would lend itself to conscious or unconscious railroading.   And yes, more so than most systems, Grimm would encourage players to only test themselves with things that they knew they could do.But my even bigger disappointment with Grimm is that the creator of it hates fairy tales and made little provisions really for the game to be run a person who loves them.   The assumption seems to be that the way to play the game is in the mode of an anti-fairy tale, as if subverting the fairy tale was somehow more interesting than the fairy tale itself.   With neither the system nor the setting ultimately being to my liking, it occurred to me I'd do better by myself.If your goal is creating a system for 4 to 7 year olds, may I suggest my system SIPS (Simple Imaginative Play System)?  It's not in a published or publishable state, but I can probably come up with a enough notes for your needs and I think it will work better for what my kids call 'The Fairy Game' than a d6 dice pool system.</blockquote>

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