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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Juxtapozbliss" data-source="post: 9237688" data-attributes="member: 7042149">I think this is a very interesting question. And it happened to me with Free League too!!!I buy lots of RPG systems - all PDFs. So much easier to read digitally. I have probably 50 or so in my queue to eventually read. I tend to give up when I'm about halfway through the core book - either a GM guide, full rules, or a starter set - if something rubs me the wrong way. I usually feel that I have enough to explore, and I don't feel obligated to "stick it out" and read the whole thing.For context with Free League, first I read Blade Runner, and I loved it. I'm running the starter adventure for my team right now. But then I started reading Tales from the Loop. I got about halfway through and read a sentence about a roll for "seduction" and I was like...nope. I was already a bit creeped out thinking about us 40 - 50 year old dudes playing tweens, and then came upon a sentence about rolling for seduction and that immediately was a big NO. Moving on.Then I read the Coriolis starter set. Not bad, I may come back to it. It didn't grab me, but I haven't ruled it out. Next I tried Vaesen. I generally was interested in the setting, but after about halfway through, I got turned off by the option to play Christianity-powered characters. Just not comfortable with that spin on modern religion. I'm a Buddhist/atheist and don't really like Christianity being introduced into my games, but also - I just didn't like the lack of balance. Why not say you could play a Buddhist or Hindu character with the same powers? Don't really care that it was semi-historical for 1800s Scandinavia because they say you can make it any degree of historical you like...so why not make it more inclusive?Now I'm reading Aliens RPG. So far so good.The other system I bounced off of was Trinity Continuum. I was looking for something to play a modern day espionage game, and about halfway through...I just got lost in the rules. I was like, ugh...doesn't fit me. And I do enjoy some very crunchy games (Hero System 6e), but I couldn't grasp the overall set. Oh well.So anyway, as I said...I get about halfway through the core book or a starter rules it would seem before giving up.</blockquote>

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