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<blockquote data-quote="Verdande" data-source="post: 5295949" data-attributes="member: 69093">If anybody in this discussion hasn't read Ron Edward's essay on &quot;<a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/system_does_matter.html" target="_blank">System Does Matter</a>&quot;, I think they need to. By the way, I agree with you. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />See, if the system spends most of its time talking about combat, and most of the character sheet is about combat, and all of your skills are either combat-related or entirely mechanical, then it's not a very roleplaying-oriented game by virtue of the fact that its focus is on the mechanical side of the game.On the other hand, a game where your character sheet says nothing more than your character's name, his greatest fear, and his goal in life, there's absolutely no time &quot;wasted&quot; fighting endless hordes of mooks. You can actually roleplay something.But don't listen to me blather, go read the article.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Verdande, post: 5295949, member: 69093"] If anybody in this discussion hasn't read Ron Edward's essay on "[URL="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/system_does_matter.html"]System Does Matter[/URL]", I think they need to. By the way, I agree with you. :) See, if the system spends most of its time talking about combat, and most of the character sheet is about combat, and all of your skills are either combat-related or entirely mechanical, then it's not a very roleplaying-oriented game by virtue of the fact that its focus is on the mechanical side of the game. On the other hand, a game where your character sheet says nothing more than your character's name, his greatest fear, and his goal in life, there's absolutely no time "wasted" fighting endless hordes of mooks. You can actually roleplay something. But don't listen to me blather, go read the article. [/QUOTE]

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