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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9659824" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Actually, it was cool. As you write, some others took the idea from WEG Star Wars.WEG is, of course, West End Games. Ghostbusters was a WEG Game- it was the immediate success of WEG Ghostbusters that "led {WEG} to pivot from a board game company to an RPG company." It was the first use of dice pools in any game; the WEG Ghostbusters system became the WEG d6 system.So this popular game led WEG to commit to a pivot to RPGs, and to use dice pools and the d6 system. Brownie Points in GB became Force Points in Star Wars. And so on. (Source: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground (Stu Horvath) pp. 167-69.Seems influential to me.</blockquote>