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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8959856" data-attributes="member: 12731">I just found vs Darkmaster! And this thread! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />I had a look-round and looked at various comparisons between RM, HARP and vsD (chiefly the latter two), and followed recommendations toward vsD.I have two bad things upfront:* The developers shut their forums. Discord is an evil where no single discussion can live on for more than a short while, since all rules discussions must live in one long chat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f922.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":sick:" title="Sick    :sick:"  data-smilie="19"data-shortname=":sick:" /> <rant>I will never understand why young people can abide by Discord (and Reddit) when a discussion forum like this one is so superior, where each subject is discussed in its own thread, and can easily be revisited nine months later (like I'm doing here)... unless the attention span has drastically fallen in recent times.* Initiative rules. As far as I can understand (with a single reply on Discord before I was disconnected) vsD retains the same ghastly non-rules as the original MERP did, where an order of phases is used, except when it isn't. It boggles the mind how perhaps the worst aspect of MERP can have survived to this day! I briefly checked HARP, and sanity prevails: it uses a version of Initiative that maybe is too cumbersome for regular play, but it does use something I can actually understand. I will definitely throw out the "Tactical Round Sequence" and replace it with some kind of initiative in my vsD...!</blockquote>

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