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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9569755" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Wick's Houses of the Blooded and Blood and Honor - rolling for narrative control, not for success, and anyone who passed the line gets to tweak the success/failure defined by the highest roller.The Fantasy Trip and GURPS (RAW core only) - highly tactical combat with realism attempt, one a light universal task mechanic (which, in TFT, often gets warped by adventure designers who couldn't be bothered to actually KNOW the system they're writing for). The dearth of utility magic in TFT also makes it different from even the GURPS Core Rules magic.Also, not all very-lights feel alike. NTYE is also pretty damned light.3:16 (2 sessions only) is an ultralight, but it feels very different from L&amp;F (⅓ session, players hated it)... even tho both reduce things to what is, to me, absurdly light (one scale in L&amp;F, in 3:16, you have combat and non-combat scores as separate scales).There's a qualitative difference between super-broad ratings vs very narrow ratings, even when all else is the same. Resolution mechanics make a huge difference for me. 1d20 vs 2d10? Very different, besides the 1 point minimum and half point average differences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9569755, member: 6779310"] Wick's [I][U]Houses of the Blooded[/U][/I] and [I][U]Blood and Honor[/U][/I] - rolling for narrative control, not for success, and anyone who passed the line gets to tweak the success/failure defined by the highest roller. The Fantasy Trip and GURPS (RAW core only) - highly tactical combat with realism attempt, one a light universal task mechanic (which, in TFT, often gets warped by adventure designers who couldn't be bothered to actually KNOW the system they're writing for). The dearth of utility magic in TFT also makes it different from even the GURPS Core Rules magic. Also, not all very-lights feel alike. NTYE is also pretty damned light. [I][U]3:16[/U][/I] (2 sessions only) is an ultralight, but it feels very different from L&F (⅓ session, players hated it)... even tho both reduce things to what is, to me, absurdly light (one scale in L&F, in 3:16, you have combat and non-combat scores as separate scales). There's a qualitative difference between super-broad ratings vs very narrow ratings, even when all else is the same. Resolution mechanics make a huge difference for me. 1d20 vs 2d10? Very different, besides the 1 point minimum and half point average differences. [/QUOTE]

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