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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9722884" data-attributes="member: 75787">I’d agree that SW leans to being gamist. For me, though, the mechanics it uses have an archaic sort of feel to them, and they quite often lead to surprising results that feel a bit odd. So, for me, I often feel irritated at the rules. I think that’s why I prefer PF2 to it generally. But I did have a ton of fun running a Flash Gordon SW campaign over the pandemic, it’s not a system I dislike so much as one I feel little need for as others fill the niche — for fantasy.You are right that I do like the d20 based systems though. Dice pool systems are very swingy in results and so it often feels that you are failing or being lucky when you shouldn’t. I’m playing in TALES FROM THE LOOP campaign and the randomness is fine there, but it is very common for one person to roll 8 dice and another to roll 2 and the latter succeeds when the former doesn’t. D20 also has a nice level of granularity. I’ve played a lot of Rolemaster, and am playing a ton of BRP games, and have no objections to d100, but players cannot tell if you round everything to 5%. D100 is better for unusual levels of success - I really like the BRP system of roll under ½ or 1/5 the value to get higher levels of success; much nicer than the d20 “20 is a critical success regardless of how good you are at the skill”, but it is a bit more finicky. I like GUMSHOE quite a bit also, but d6 to resolve combat is not quite enough for me if the game is mostly about combat.TLDR; yeah, I think you are right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgon Zee, post: 9722884, member: 75787"] I’d agree that SW leans to being gamist. For me, though, the mechanics it uses have an archaic sort of feel to them, and they quite often lead to surprising results that feel a bit odd. So, for me, I often feel irritated at the rules. I think that’s why I prefer PF2 to it generally. But I did have a ton of fun running a Flash Gordon SW campaign over the pandemic, it’s not a system I dislike so much as one I feel little need for as others fill the niche — for fantasy. You are right that I do like the d20 based systems though. Dice pool systems are very swingy in results and so it often feels that you are failing or being lucky when you shouldn’t. I’m playing in TALES FROM THE LOOP campaign and the randomness is fine there, but it is very common for one person to roll 8 dice and another to roll 2 and the latter succeeds when the former doesn’t. D20 also has a nice level of granularity. I’ve played a lot of Rolemaster, and am playing a ton of BRP games, and have no objections to d100, but players cannot tell if you round everything to 5%. D100 is better for unusual levels of success - I really like the BRP system of roll under ½ or 1/5 the value to get higher levels of success; much nicer than the d20 “20 is a critical success regardless of how good you are at the skill”, but it is a bit more finicky. I like GUMSHOE quite a bit also, but d6 to resolve combat is not quite enough for me if the game is mostly about combat. TLDR; yeah, I think you are right. [/QUOTE]

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