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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5220868" data-attributes="member: 88680">Still, "perfect" is different things for different people - do you want monsters? Deities? Intelligent vampires? Horses? Cars? Space ships? High tech equipment? Cybernetics? Insanity tables? Advantage/Disadvantage lists? Gritty realism?  Hollywood/cinematic action?  Fantastic non-human races? Psionics? Magic? Classes and levels?  Attribute-based skills? Points system? Alignments? All/none of the above?What would be perfect for me would in no way be perfect for a person who wants Hollywood-style fights and one man holding off an army at the narrow pass - I'm not saying that that style of game is "wrong", it's just diametrically opposite to what I want out of a game.Likewise "alignments" don't work for me - they never have and I always disliked them in D&D/AD&D - yet others prefer them.Sure, I'd like to be able to say "hey, how about the party's jeep blows a rod out the side of the block and the only transportation they can scrounge up is horses" then reach for a book and voila! we have the stats for everything from a Shetland pony to a Percheron - I can't say, "Nah, don't need stats for old-style stuff like horses, swords and shields" because I don't know what random stuff the game might lead to.  Horses exist, swords and machetes exist - I want the stats for them, or at least the ability to easily work them out.  The ability to have/calculate the stats for things that don't exist but may well exist in a game - Plasma guns, aliens etc - is also important to me.But other things - levels, classes, the actual combat stats and planar addresses of deities, Balrogs, alignments, grimoires and such - I can happily do without.Others need such things for their games to function.</blockquote>

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