Joshua Dyal said:
What does it not cover then? I mean, sure, it only explicitly covers a handful of specific mini-scenarios, but it's a toolkit that can be used to cover just any genre or time period equally well, IMO.
4-Color Supers, Wuxia, Space Opera, Hard-Science Fiction, etc. It implicitly
doesn't cover quite a few genres. This is all stuff that I'd have to house rule from scratch that isn't included (or even touched on) in the book. Sure, I can use GT to do all of this stuff - but not
as written. Which, as I've clarified above, means that it doesn't meet my criteria.
As I've said, I want a completely generic tool-kit system, which GT isn't - it lacks rules for covering quite a few genres. Rules that the systems up in the poll (and some mentioned by other posters, such as
Fuzion and
Tri-Stat dX) have by
default. The argument of 'Well, if you write up X and house-rule Y, then system X will meet your criteria!' is a poor argument that can (and has been) made of every RPG under the sun.
Again, the bottom line is that GT doesn't meet the established criteria as mentioned in my first post and as clarified above. And for the last time, both of you*, I'm not going to (re)buy Grim Tales. Again, thanks for your contributions thus far, but if you don't have anything else constructive to contribute, please quit the thread.
*Joshua and Hojimir