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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamondeye" data-source="post: 4475068" data-attributes="member: 60019">My (very) general feeling is that I want the mechanics of a system to support as wide a variety of character concepts as possible, with sufficient granularity that two characters with generally the same concept can also differ in meaningful ways.  In other words, the "what" of the mechanical aspects of their concept are the same, but the "how" differ in a meaningful way. In terms of how they support roleplaying, much of a character's personality doesn't need mechanical support.  Most social challenges that do either involve convincing someone of something they wouldn't believe, or to do something they wouldn't do. Most of the rest of the mechanics should involve physical challenges, combat or otherwise.  I want to be able to select a mechanic to resolve most physical challenges without having to stretch the intuitive definition of any too far, and without having to rely excessivley on ability scores (raw talent, as opposed to skill) I also do not want to have to do a ton of reflavoring of existing abilities to support a concept.  I much prefer to tinker with existing products than come up with my own from scratch, and totally reflavoring something to fit a new concept is too close to the latter for my taste.  That's also why I prefer published campaign worlds; I dislike coming up with my own.</blockquote>