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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7839352" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>This is the most important factor, and also the reason why it's such a pain to run the game. Not only are you supposed to liberally excise all of the rules that don't support your specific game style, but the GM actually needs to go through and define everything that exists in their game.</p><p></p><p>It isn't as simple as toggling a couple of switches, to say that elves exist but Klingons don't. The GM has to manually go in and create the template for what an elf looks like in their world. They essentially have to create, as though they were characters, every single type of thing that they'll need.</p><p></p><p>It's not enough to say that you want to play Giant Robots, and apply some standardized rules for that. The GM needs to go through and stat out all of the giant robots, before the players can choose between them. If you just hand the rules to the players, and ask them to create their own giant robots, then it's not going to work out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7839352, member: 6775031"] This is the most important factor, and also the reason why it's such a pain to run the game. Not only are you supposed to liberally excise all of the rules that don't support your specific game style, but the GM actually needs to go through and define everything that exists in their game. It isn't as simple as toggling a couple of switches, to say that elves exist but Klingons don't. The GM has to manually go in and create the template for what an elf looks like in their world. They essentially have to create, as though they were characters, every single type of thing that they'll need. It's not enough to say that you want to play Giant Robots, and apply some standardized rules for that. The GM needs to go through and stat out all of the giant robots, before the players can choose between them. If you just hand the rules to the players, and ask them to create their own giant robots, then it's not going to work out. [/QUOTE]
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