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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2737035" data-attributes="member: 3477">Oh, I probably was not clear with what I meant. With 'the game itself', I meant the whole package, and here mostly the subject matter, not the mechanics. Mechanics are mostly an afterthought for me. It takes a while of playing until I can decide what I like and what I don't like about certain mechanics. I can only think about few instances where I specifically considered buying games because of mechanics. The first one were D&D variants, because they wanted to tackle a few dislikes I had with standard D&D (AU) or had an analytical approach to D&D that made some concepts better visible (GT). The second case was simple curiosity where I wanted to know what some popular game was all about (HERO Sidekick). The third case was curiosity how a diceless system worked and the price was right ($4.95, Everway). There will probably be a fourth case with Runequest next year, but that's just because I want to know how Glorantha (which I love as a setting) plays with some other system than HeroQuest.Other than that, I buy games because the setting/premise interests me. I didn't buy Call of Cthulhu because I wanted to know BRP. I didn't buy Ars Magica because of its fabled magic system. I also didn't buy the Dying Earth RPG because of the 'innovative' system. It's the atmosphere that caught me. And this has to have some appeal to me and not mimic something that I already have.</blockquote>

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