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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5509996" data-attributes="member: 34865">HACKMASTER Basic is a terrible mess.  I don't say that as someone who doesn't like HACKMASTER - I don't, but that's beside the point.  I approached it as a new RPG, I didn't look on it as "Well this had better be as good as AD&D 'or else'." Rather, I genuinely wanted to like it.When your character creation system makes me throw the book across the room in disgust you have done something fundamentally wrong in the way you wrote your character creation rules.  And your game in general.There may be good stuff there, but the measure of an RPG is how well you can convey to someone how the personage in the game they're about to play is constructed.  HACKMASTER Basic does this extremely poorly.  To the point of irritating me into not wanting to bother with it, at all.  So whatever good stuff might be in there is just crap, brothers.It is the SUCKER-PUNCH of RPG books: I'd like to like it, but it's an incoherent mess.</blockquote>