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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1532451" data-attributes="member: 3146">D&D could do that, but you'd need to change the paradigm. Instead of playing fighters and wizards, priests, and rogues who save the world, bring bandits to justice and slay monsters, you'd need to play commoners who marry women they don't love in order to meet the expectations of their family, commit adultery with their neighbors, die of heart failure during coition on a bed surrounded by candles and then come back and haunt their family for it. Skill ranks include bluff, diplomacy, profession, craft, "moping about the sucky life you/your colonial oppressors have created," "making yourself miserable because you don't want to let anyone know you don't want to live up to their expectations instead of letting them make you miserable because you don't live up to their expectations," Whine, and Sollilloquey. Classes are Commoner (slut), commoner (cad), commoner (decent guy), commoner (dutiful but fat and ugly and betrayed wife), commoner (good guy who can't get a break), commoner (violent drunk), and ordinary commoner. Experience is gained for standing in picturesque poses and creating scenes that win awards at film festivals.And you can call it: "Commoner: A d20 system for role-playing pseudo-medieval soap operas."</blockquote>