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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6292196" data-attributes="member: 87792">This sums up about half my experience with Savage Worlds <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=":)" />Agreed absolutely!  Or you're half designing the game yourself (see GURPS 4e for details).Not a lot in my experience.The really cool thing about Apocalypse World to me is easily overlooked and not actually mentioned in any of the design documents I've seen.  AW is based around freeform roleplaying and causing as little disruption as possible to a freeform experience, while adding as much as possible from the rolls of the dice.  (Meguey Baker is a freeform roleplayer).  It's also the first published iteration using the engine and there's a reason a lot of designers hack using it.  For rules elegance Monsterhearts is better - but it might not be a game that you are able to play with your current gaming group.Avoid Classic Cortex I'd suggest.  Somehow I don't think that any RPG where you can have a stat of d12+d2 is going to be your thing.  Cortex+ is a very different thing (and it's a toolkit for creating games while Classic Cortex is a one-size-fits-all game). I know exactly what you mean <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=":)" />Being fair, resolution mechanics are useful.  But I'm working at the level of Apocalypse World here which, as I mentioned, starts off with the idea that no rules is a perfectly fine way to play then builds a structure around that disrupting it as little as possible while adding as much of value as possible into those disruptions.All the games I've mentioned have things in them to make them less random than a simple d20 roll (Cortex+ is roll your dice pool, pick your best two (Classic Cortex just adds up your dice pool, another reason to avoid it) - Fate uses four fate dice for an equivalent of 4d3-8, and Apocalypse World/Monsterhearts uses a 2d6 bell curve with threshold values on 7 and 10).</blockquote>

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