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<blockquote data-quote="Theory of Games" data-source="post: 9166411" data-attributes="member: 7042201"><s>This is so bad. People should avoid this thread and poke their eyes out if they read it.</s>I mean. FATE. Super-story-based RPG. The color of the mechanics paints the setting, characters and action in a way that FEEEELSSS like somethin-somethin cinematic. People will say &quot;Feng Shui&quot; or &quot;DramaSystem&quot; (is that one word?) . This whole hobby is ridiculously akin to professional acting by people rarely paid to act. We just do it BECAUSE FUN right? And it let's us investigate these paper-top people we create. Like who the f*k is this person anyway? &quot;Burning Wheel&quot; is the other quintessential &quot;I'm acting like an actor&quot; rpg. Everything else is combat. Even the &quot;Powered by the Apocalyose&quot; rpgs get .......... I mean they FALL into combat because WTF are we doing besides fighting stuff in a fun way that doesn't work like DND. DND is so disgustingly mechanical and we love it for that. Every time I make a DND character I want to spit on the page. Or my screen. oR at the table. It's sooooooooooooo / I feel like a robot running a robot doing robotic stuff. What are we talking about again?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Theory of Games, post: 9166411, member: 7042201"] [S]This is so bad. People should avoid this thread and poke their eyes out if they read it.[/S] I mean. FATE. Super-story-based RPG. The color of the mechanics paints the setting, characters and action in a way that FEEEELSSS like somethin-somethin cinematic. People will say "Feng Shui" or "DramaSystem" (is that one word?) . This whole hobby is ridiculously akin to professional acting by people rarely paid to act. We just do it BECAUSE FUN right? And it let's us investigate these paper-top people we create. Like who the f*k is this person anyway? "Burning Wheel" is the other quintessential "I'm acting like an actor" rpg. Everything else is combat. Even the "Powered by the Apocalyose" rpgs get .......... I mean they FALL into combat because WTF are we doing besides fighting stuff in a fun way that doesn't work like DND. DND is so disgustingly mechanical and we love it for that. Every time I make a DND character I want to spit on the page. Or my screen. oR at the table. It's sooooooooooooo / I feel like a robot running a robot doing robotic stuff. What are we talking about again? [/QUOTE]

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