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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6566184" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Getting off-topic, Pendragon (own it, not played or GM'd it) seems to be a sim system (BRP) drifted </p><p>over to dramatist play - or at least, it ought to work well that way? What do you reckon? This is a type of game I'd like to run fairly soon (thinking 'manor' type play, or 'Game of Thrones' at a lower level of </p><p>world-power) - a group of PCs with ties of blood & loyalty, central set location (Deadwood/Castle Stark sort of thing) and a focus on character. I've been struggling with what system to use - considered using 4e D&D and Fallcrest, considered the Song of Ice & Fire RPG, considered Dragon Warriors, considered BRP </p><p>(generic) or BRP-Pendragon. </p><p></p><p>I want it to be dramatist, not the method-actor-sim you described upthread in relation to playing the </p><p>Harn system, My gut feeling is that a BRP type system might be better than a more D&Dish one (4e or Dragon Warriors) but I'm a bit worried Pendragon might be too "world-sim Mort-d'Arthur". I own The Song of Ice & Fire RPG, the system has the issues of (a) I don't know the system (b) closely tied to specific </p><p>setting, a setting I don't know that well and don't particularly want to run as canon and (c) seems </p><p>very specifically designed so you get something resembling a GRR Martin story, whereas I'd want me and my players to determine the type of story in-play. My feeling is that BRP is less rigid, being uncommitted to any particular type of story (though obviously not a great fit for superheroic play).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6566184, member: 463"] Getting off-topic, Pendragon (own it, not played or GM'd it) seems to be a sim system (BRP) drifted over to dramatist play - or at least, it ought to work well that way? What do you reckon? This is a type of game I'd like to run fairly soon (thinking 'manor' type play, or 'Game of Thrones' at a lower level of world-power) - a group of PCs with ties of blood & loyalty, central set location (Deadwood/Castle Stark sort of thing) and a focus on character. I've been struggling with what system to use - considered using 4e D&D and Fallcrest, considered the Song of Ice & Fire RPG, considered Dragon Warriors, considered BRP (generic) or BRP-Pendragon. I want it to be dramatist, not the method-actor-sim you described upthread in relation to playing the Harn system, My gut feeling is that a BRP type system might be better than a more D&Dish one (4e or Dragon Warriors) but I'm a bit worried Pendragon might be too "world-sim Mort-d'Arthur". I own The Song of Ice & Fire RPG, the system has the issues of (a) I don't know the system (b) closely tied to specific setting, a setting I don't know that well and don't particularly want to run as canon and (c) seems very specifically designed so you get something resembling a GRR Martin story, whereas I'd want me and my players to determine the type of story in-play. My feeling is that BRP is less rigid, being uncommitted to any particular type of story (though obviously not a great fit for superheroic play). [/QUOTE]
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