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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7981357" data-attributes="member: 18">My apologies for making too many assumptions - you are correct, and your points are well-made. I'm just a bit skeptical about the Thief-BRP/Rolemaster connection being so direct when the percentile concept was clearly bouncing around (and very widely used, oddly - more widely used than a lot of D&D-style mechanics).When I say wargame, I'm including skirmish/squad-level games, not sure if I confused the issue by not mentioning that.Champions/HERO screams "squad-level tactics game" specifically. The entire rules-set seems like it's perfectly designed for simulating a small-ish number of troops (say, 4-12) going up against a similarly-sized squad in a 20th century combat, and using it for superheroes feels to me like an odd repurposing. It works in a sort of literal fashion, but it feels like "what if superheroes were real and engage in squad-level combat?" rather than a game actually about comic-book superheroes.At least it's a cogent game that actually works though! Superhero 2044 is a total mess (despite being the first professionally produced RPG - Lou Zocchi clearly had more resources available than some!).Re designers, I mean, we can look into the backgrounds of various designers of the era if you feel that would be helpful? I think it's fair to say most of them are going to have a background in playing or designing wargames, just like Gygax and Arneson (I suspect this is true of a large proportion of pre-'90s RPG designers, and a significant proportion post-'90s even).I agree with your point that RPGs rapidly reached into communities which didn't wargame, to be clear. You can particularly see that as the '80s wears on.</blockquote>

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