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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1187317" data-attributes="member: 6957"><p>Hmmm, in order of preference:</p><p></p><p>Ars Magica. (Excellent game, great supplements. Best magic system on the whole darned planet.)</p><p></p><p>Pendragon. (Very good for an extended 'family saga' type campaign spanning generations.)</p><p></p><p>Chivalry and Sorcery. (Back in print from Brittainnia Game Designs.)</p><p></p><p>Rune Quest 3rd edition was very good. If you can track it down you won't be sorry.</p><p></p><p>GURPS. (I don't like it at all, but it has a lot of supplements for running different settings. (And part of my problem with GURPS actually has to do with some of the local fanatical GURPS players. I actually heard one of them say that the purpose of D20 was just to kill GURPS... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ))</p><p></p><p>Basic Role Play. (The core of Runequest, and the basic system for Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer. Not a lot of information for any specific settings, but very generic.</p><p> </p><p>I cannot reccomend Dark Ages: Mage. It requires use of Dark Ages: Vampire. And I'm afraid I did not like what they did with the magic system. Especially considering that itis the same time period and semipseudsortof the same setting as Ars Magica.</p><p>Dark Ages: Vampire is okay, but I prefered Vampire: The Dark Ages, the first version of the setting.</p><p></p><p>The Auld Grump, who thinks he's forgetting something...</p><p></p><p>*EDIT* And Cthulhu Dark Ages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 1187317, member: 6957"] Hmmm, in order of preference: Ars Magica. (Excellent game, great supplements. Best magic system on the whole darned planet.) Pendragon. (Very good for an extended 'family saga' type campaign spanning generations.) Chivalry and Sorcery. (Back in print from Brittainnia Game Designs.) Rune Quest 3rd edition was very good. If you can track it down you won't be sorry. GURPS. (I don't like it at all, but it has a lot of supplements for running different settings. (And part of my problem with GURPS actually has to do with some of the local fanatical GURPS players. I actually heard one of them say that the purpose of D20 was just to kill GURPS... :rolleyes: )) Basic Role Play. (The core of Runequest, and the basic system for Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer. Not a lot of information for any specific settings, but very generic. I cannot reccomend Dark Ages: Mage. It requires use of Dark Ages: Vampire. And I'm afraid I did not like what they did with the magic system. Especially considering that itis the same time period and semipseudsortof the same setting as Ars Magica. Dark Ages: Vampire is okay, but I prefered Vampire: The Dark Ages, the first version of the setting. The Auld Grump, who thinks he's forgetting something... *EDIT* And Cthulhu Dark Ages. [/QUOTE]
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