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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OpsKT" data-source="post: 5828756" data-attributes="member: 70780">Very well put. That is one thing that has always bugged me about D&D, Storyteller, and Shadowrun, dump enough into the attributes, and skills are barely required. In the real world, when you don't know how to do something (in particular, physical skills) you don't know how to do something. With natural talent, you might get lucky here and there and learn it quickly, but to start you don't know. As for the stuff everyone should know in a setting, that is covered nicely in Savage Worlds with the common knowledge roll, which is representative of normal socialization into a given society. It is sublimely elegant. I call this 'right tools syndrome', where because they have played with a hammer for so long, every game looks like a nail, when it might indeed be a screw or fine china. And it happens everywhere. Like when WoD was 'the thing' in the late 90's, I cringed every time there was a movie even vaguely Gothic or supernatural themed, because I knew the boards over there would be filled with people trying to cram that movie into the game. You know the gamers that have been at it a while over the younger ones, because us old guys look for a system that fits the story we want to tell, instead of trying to cram a square story in an oval system.  Savage Wolds is the first system I've found where I see no reason for house rules at all. I don't have a one. I use some setting rules in specific settings, but no real changes to the rules at their core. The only game that comes close with the low number of house rules I need is the new World of Darkness, which has only 3 to the core rules, and 5 total when running Mage. (It all relates to making armor into Damage Reduction rather than Defense adds). The fact that I don't need to change Savage Worlds any for the games I want to run with it and so any new player that shows up can learn form just the book, is one of the reasons I love it so much.</blockquote>

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