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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5298677" data-attributes="member: 42582">The Shaman, interesting quote from Boot Hill. Not a game I'm familiar with, other than what you've said about it in this thread.I agree that a lot of "modern" RPGing ideas can be found in older games. Ron Edwards gives examples from Champions, James Bond, Marvel Super Heroes and T&T. I think you've given examples in this thread (and others?) from Top Secret.What might be a little bit new under the sun is new mechanical techniques to try to emphasise some of these varying approaches to play. That said, I've just admitted I don't know the Boot Hill mechanics!EDIT: Thinking about Boot Hill and Flashing Blades, in the earlier days of the hobby was there a tendency to identify historical games with tighter situations and generic fantasy games with a greater degree of open-endedness? Then there are strange examples like MERP, which could have offered very tight situation-based play, but instead presents itself just as more generic fantasy but using Middle Earth as the backdrop.</blockquote>