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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 5589943" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, I'm a sucker for RPG systems, so took a look-see thorugh the 60-pg start PDF.&nbsp;&nbsp; While I respect someone who does a full review of a game book, I think the reviewer kinds missed the forest through the trees, so to speak.&nbsp; From what I can tell, ParaSpace looks like what I'd call a &quot;moderately complex&quot; system (if you want complex, hit up Livng Steel or Phoenix Command...OUCH!). Whats more, it doesn't pretend to be a &quot;simple game to just pick up and play&quot;. So, giving it low points because it isn't non-complex is like a reviewer giving Basic D&amp;D low points becuse it's simple. The review should, IMHO, be about how well the rules are presented and how they fit together in order to portray the type of game it was designed to do. In other words I wouldn't review Call of Cthulhu by holding it up to the standards I'd expect from Marvel Super Heroes. Claiming that a CoC charcter is too easily killed, so that doesnt' give the player a chance to be heroic, and thusly CoC is a &quot;bad game&quot; just doesn't work.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, thanks for the review anyway. It at least pointed me to a new RPG system! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;^_^&nbsp;Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 5589943, member: 45197"] Hiya. Well, I'm a sucker for RPG systems, so took a look-see thorugh the 60-pg start PDF. While I respect someone who does a full review of a game book, I think the reviewer kinds missed the forest through the trees, so to speak. From what I can tell, ParaSpace looks like what I'd call a "moderately complex" system (if you want complex, hit up Livng Steel or Phoenix Command...OUCH!). Whats more, it doesn't pretend to be a "simple game to just pick up and play". So, giving it low points because it isn't non-complex is like a reviewer giving Basic D&D low points becuse it's simple. The review should, IMHO, be about how well the rules are presented and how they fit together in order to portray the type of game it was designed to do. In other words I wouldn't review Call of Cthulhu by holding it up to the standards I'd expect from Marvel Super Heroes. Claiming that a CoC charcter is too easily killed, so that doesnt' give the player a chance to be heroic, and thusly CoC is a "bad game" just doesn't work. Anyway, thanks for the review anyway. It at least pointed me to a new RPG system! :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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