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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6289193" data-attributes="member: 87792">I've never found a rules system that does exactly what I want for  all  RPGs I want to run because that's impossible.  To be rules  satisfying  for something the game needs to focus on that thing.  On the  other hand  there are a number of games I play that I consider fit all  the  criteria or at least only very slightly miss them.  All of the games  I  can think of that fit came out no earlier than 2009.  In approximate   descending order of popularity (I'm not sure about #2 and 3):<a href="http://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core-downloads/" target="_blank">Fate Core/Fate Accelerated</a>.    There's a reason that Fate is lying behind only D&D on the Hot   Games Tracker, and Fate Core is the most elegant of them all and keyed   to pulp action for larger than life characters.  Powerful, flexible,   simple, and delivers exactly the experience it promises.<a href="http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/" target="_blank">Fiasco</a>.    I'm never sure whether this is an RPG or a collaborative storytelling   game.  Either way it can have 3-5 vaguely creative people create a  Cohen  Brothers movie in about the time it takes to watch one.<a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/117419/Cortex-Plus-Hackers-Guide" target="_blank">Cortex+</a> (or at least all four games in the line: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Smallville-Roleplaying-Game-Cam-Banks/dp/1931567891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397663938&sr=1-1&keywords=smallville+rpg" target="_blank">Smallville</a> (OOP), <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/85727/Leverage-Roleplaying-Game" target="_blank">Leverage</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Heroic-Roleplay-Basic-Game/dp/1936685167" target="_blank">Marvel Heroic Roleplaying</a> (OOP), <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/128012/Firefly-RolePlaying-Game-Corebook" target="_blank">Firefly</a>).    Cortex+ is a definite cousin of Fate and is much woolier, swingier,  and  more chaotic (and uses polyhedral dice) but has the same elegance  of  mechanics, rules that if you push them will fit onto a side, and   characters that tell you all you need to know.  All four Cortex+ games   are very different because they reflect different shows.  Smallville is   tangled emotional drama, Leverage competence porn and con artistry,   Marvel Heroic comic book physics, and Firefly entertaining fish out of   water/incompetence.<a href="http://apocalypse-world.com/" target="_blank">Apocalypse World</a>.  How to sum up Apocalypse World other than it's roleplaying in a normally Mad Max style post apocalyptic setting; the <a href="http://apocalypse-world.com/AW-basicplaybooks-legal.pdf" target="_blank">character classes</a>  are extremely evocative, and the moves used for task resolution point  you straight and hard at the fiction (there are also a very limited  number of them).  The MC is told not to prepare in advance.  Simple  rules, unified task resolution, very evocative characters.  There is a  "Just one part" here, however - the Hx value between two given PCs  resets to 0 when it hits +4 (and you gain experience).<a href="http://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts/" target="_blank">Monsterhearts</a>.   Apocalypse World has a lot of hacks of it - I've even written a few  myself (none of the hacks I've seen use Hx).  Monsterhearts is the best  of them even if the premise sounds ridiculous.  Teenage Monsters in the  style of Twilight or Teen Wolf.  It's a game about personal horror and  being a monster not in control of yourself in a way the WoD could only  dream of.  It's also a game about growing up and overcoming your  limitations, turning your weaknesses into strengths.</blockquote>

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