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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 1172924" data-attributes="member: 317">Storm Gorm, of the three systems I named, if you are wanting multi-genre, go with Savage Worlds.  Its a simple skill-based system, that can handle anything you want it to.  Deadlands is a great system (in fact, Savage Worlds is a simplified Deadlands), but Deadlands: The Weird West is a Western genre game, with magic, monsters, Indians, and weirdness.  Its sort of like crossing a Clint Eastwood western with the Evil Dead and Brisco County Jr- odd, but very fun stuff.  Might not be to everyone's fancy, but it did win several Origins awards in the late 90's.BRP is Chaosium's house system, made most famous by Call of Cthulhu.  Very simple percentile based system that is easy to use.  Characters start out significantly more capable than in D20 games, but progress much more slowly.  Characters are also rather fragile in BRP- critters will eat them without effort, and firearms will put most characters down in one or two shots.Hope you find something you enjoy and are comfortable with.  I still play D20 occasionally, but I prefer not to run it.  Ultimately, the most important thing is to find a game you love running and playing- and that enthusiasm will get to your players, who will also enjoy it.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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