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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 3459915" data-attributes="member: 6777">Jamie, thanks for stopping by the thread and offering your comments.Being an indie fanboy, I'd naturally take issue with this. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Given your expectation that many people new to RPG'ing would be picking up the game, I'm not sure I see why you'd need to stick closer to a design that existing RPG'ers would find more palatable. If anything, your audience is open to innovation, since they have no real expectations.Not to mention, I dunno if I'm saying that you need to get really out there (e.g., Universalis) in order to do Firefly justice. I keep bringing up FATE/SotC, which is based on the venerable FUDGE, and that's pretty newbie-friendly, I think. And I was talking M&amp;M above, which is d20, after all. I just think there's a better way. (It's not a mindset issue, IMO. We're giving the game a shot, and it's simply not doing it for most of us.)Regardless, the one thing I hope you take away from my criticism of Serenity is more clarity in the rule text, and definitely more examples of the rules and procedures in play. Design criticism aside, one of the biggest issues our group has had is a simple inability to easily figure out how the mechanics work. The book itself could be a much better tool in this regard. It's mostly been fan created material that has added clarity for us (though some ground was lost with the changes in the 4th printing).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 3459915, member: 6777"] Jamie, thanks for stopping by the thread and offering your comments. Being an indie fanboy, I'd naturally take issue with this. :) Given your expectation that many people new to RPG'ing would be picking up the game, I'm not sure I see why you'd need to stick closer to a design that [i]existing[/i] RPG'ers would find more palatable. If anything, your audience is open to innovation, since [I]they[/I] have no real expectations. Not to mention, I dunno if I'm saying that you need to get really out there (e.g., [i]Universalis[/i]) in order to do Firefly justice. I keep bringing up FATE/SotC, which is based on the venerable FUDGE, and that's pretty newbie-friendly, I think. And I was talking M&M above, which is d20, after all. I just think there's a better way. (It's not a mindset issue, IMO. We're giving the game a shot, and it's simply not doing it for most of us.) Regardless, the one thing I hope you take away from my criticism of [i]Serenity[/i] is more clarity in the rule text, and definitely more examples of the rules and procedures in play. Design criticism aside, one of the biggest issues our group has had is a simple inability to easily figure out how the mechanics work. The book itself could be a much better tool in this regard. It's mostly been fan created material that has added clarity for us (though some ground was lost with the changes in the 4th printing). [/QUOTE]

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