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<blockquote data-quote="lordabdul" data-source="post: 8032564" data-attributes="member: 6994956">My answer to the OP is really &quot;I don't care much about the system&quot;: I'm interested or not in a game based on what the game is about, who wrote it, what setting it's in, what kind of character you play, etc... to some degree, I might care about the system in terms of &quot;what kind of system is it&quot;. Is it a modified 5e game? Is it inspired my MERP or by old-school WFRP? Is it a hack of some other system?But really I tend to think about it more in similar terms as board games. Every board game has different rules: picking up a new board game means you'll have to learn it! So am I going to only pick Carcassone extensions (&quot;it's Carcassone, but with space settlements on asteroids!&quot;) the same way I might only play 5e games? Or am I open to any board game except a few that have mechanics I don't like (say, I don't want to play deck-building games) ?There's a couple decent reasons to not want or be able to play games using a new rule system. &quot;Not wanting to learn something new&quot; is not one of those in my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lordabdul, post: 8032564, member: 6994956"] My answer to the OP is really "I don't care much about the system": I'm interested or not in a game based on what the game is about, who wrote it, what setting it's in, what kind of character you play, etc... to some degree, I might care about the system in terms of "what kind of system is it". Is it a modified 5e game? Is it inspired my MERP or by old-school WFRP? Is it a hack of some other system? But really I tend to think about it more in similar terms as board games. Every board game has different rules: picking up a new board game means you'll have to learn it! So am I going to only pick Carcassone extensions ("it's Carcassone, but with space settlements on asteroids!") the same way I might only play 5e games? Or am I open to any board game except a few that have mechanics I don't like (say, I don't want to play deck-building games) ? There's a couple decent reasons to not want or be able to play games using a new rule system. "Not wanting to learn something new" is not one of those in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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