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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 7619912" data-attributes="member: 85870"><p>-Anything White Wolf --- At least ten or twelve times over the last 15 years, I've wandered into a game store and picked up a White Wolf title (oWoD, Vampire, Mage, Werewolf), and started thumbing through it. At no point in any of those perusals have I felt a desire to play a game based on the presented material, let alone pay money for the privilege of doing so. </p><p></p><p>-*Special Shout Out to White Wolf, Part 2 - Exalted --- I perused this book one time for about 120 seconds. That's all it took to know that I had less than zero interest in whatever "play experience" it was offering. </p><p></p><p>-Shadowrun --- I've picked up a Shadowrun core rulebook off the shelf 10 or 12 times over the years, and every time I think there's some really cool stuff in there, but there's just too much "cruft" that I'd have to lift out to even want to try it. If I did try to play it, I'd have to revamp the game world (I've always thought orcs and elves running around with mohawks and laser guns was a bridge too far, even for my geekish tastes). Then I'd have to figure out how the whole thing actually works . . . yeah, just way too much effort. And it's not that I don't love cyberpunk as a genre; <em>Snowcrash </em>is one of my favorite sci-fi novels, and the <em>Deus Ex </em>video games are my all time favorites. I just can't get into Shadowrun's particular flavor. </p><p></p><p>-RIFTS --- This one is a combo platter of thinking both the rules and the setting are equally obtuse, and not just obtuse, but obtuse in an infuriatingly smug way. This shouldn't surprise me, considering that the game maker's public persona generally comes across in like manner.</p><p></p><p>*Edit* D&D 5th Edition --- This one technically isn't a "I'd never play that." If someone were to offer to run a D&D 5e campaign with an interesting premise, I'd certainly play it. But in terms of really "connecting" with the rules system when I read it, 5e did almost nothing for me. And as a GM, I can't think of any reason that I'd run a 5e game in lieu of any of five or six other systems that I'd be vastly more excited about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 7619912, member: 85870"] -Anything White Wolf --- At least ten or twelve times over the last 15 years, I've wandered into a game store and picked up a White Wolf title (oWoD, Vampire, Mage, Werewolf), and started thumbing through it. At no point in any of those perusals have I felt a desire to play a game based on the presented material, let alone pay money for the privilege of doing so. -*Special Shout Out to White Wolf, Part 2 - Exalted --- I perused this book one time for about 120 seconds. That's all it took to know that I had less than zero interest in whatever "play experience" it was offering. -Shadowrun --- I've picked up a Shadowrun core rulebook off the shelf 10 or 12 times over the years, and every time I think there's some really cool stuff in there, but there's just too much "cruft" that I'd have to lift out to even want to try it. If I did try to play it, I'd have to revamp the game world (I've always thought orcs and elves running around with mohawks and laser guns was a bridge too far, even for my geekish tastes). Then I'd have to figure out how the whole thing actually works . . . yeah, just way too much effort. And it's not that I don't love cyberpunk as a genre; [I]Snowcrash [/I]is one of my favorite sci-fi novels, and the [I]Deus Ex [/I]video games are my all time favorites. I just can't get into Shadowrun's particular flavor. -RIFTS --- This one is a combo platter of thinking both the rules and the setting are equally obtuse, and not just obtuse, but obtuse in an infuriatingly smug way. This shouldn't surprise me, considering that the game maker's public persona generally comes across in like manner. *Edit* D&D 5th Edition --- This one technically isn't a "I'd never play that." If someone were to offer to run a D&D 5e campaign with an interesting premise, I'd certainly play it. But in terms of really "connecting" with the rules system when I read it, 5e did almost nothing for me. And as a GM, I can't think of any reason that I'd run a 5e game in lieu of any of five or six other systems that I'd be vastly more excited about. [/QUOTE]
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