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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4703476" data-attributes="member: 463">I thought WEG's Star Wars d6 (1st edition) published in 1987 was very good and clearly had legs.&nbsp; It caught the feel of the movies very effectively.edit:&nbsp; I also bought 1st edition d20 Star Wars.&nbsp; A total mess, piece of dreck.&nbsp; Got rid of it right away and haven't looked at d20 SW since.Mongoose's d20 (OGL) Conan is pretty good, although d20 is a bit clunky for the genre, there were some effective tweaks to the ruleset and again Ian Sturrock did a good job of capturing the right atmosphere.Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG looked great, read very nicely, but was let down and rendered unplayable for me by a Drama Point mechanic that was just too overpowering and wrenched me out of any possibility of immersion.&nbsp; WEG's Force Points worked great for Star Wars, OGL Conan has Fate Points that simulated the stories pretty well.&nbsp; Buffy's &quot;Drama Points&quot; came across far too much as a metagame narrative device, and being available to nearly all NPCs they inevitably dominate play.&nbsp; A 'white hat' PC starts with 20 of them.&nbsp; They give +10 to all rolls - in a d10 system, ie equivalent to +20 all rolls in d20.&nbsp; Listed stats are pretty much irrelevant in the face of that kind of modifier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 4703476, member: 463"] I thought WEG's Star Wars d6 (1st edition) published in 1987 was very good and clearly had legs. It caught the feel of the movies very effectively. edit: I also bought 1st edition d20 Star Wars. A total mess, piece of dreck. Got rid of it right away and haven't looked at d20 SW since. Mongoose's d20 (OGL) Conan is pretty good, although d20 is a bit clunky for the genre, there were some effective tweaks to the ruleset and again Ian Sturrock did a good job of capturing the right atmosphere. Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG looked great, read very nicely, but was let down and rendered unplayable for me by a Drama Point mechanic that was just too overpowering and wrenched me out of any possibility of immersion. WEG's Force Points worked great for Star Wars, OGL Conan has Fate Points that simulated the stories pretty well. Buffy's "Drama Points" came across far too much as a metagame narrative device, and being available to nearly all NPCs they inevitably dominate play. A 'white hat' PC starts with 20 of them. They give +10 to all rolls - in a d10 system, ie equivalent to +20 all rolls in d20. Listed stats are pretty much irrelevant in the face of that kind of modifier. [/QUOTE]

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