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The Fantasy Trip outsells GURPS in 2019?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8169679" data-attributes="member: 27996"><p>GURPS like all of its fellow 'toolkit' rpg's, seems to be phasing out of general use in the hobby.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hexes are one of those things that look really good on paper, but squares have won the war for general play with minis at the table for RPG's. TFT should have went with squares.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>IMHO, systems like GURPS and HERO have lost out ever since 3e and the OGL/SRD.</p><p></p><p>TFT is the direction SJGames should have gone in when the D&D OGL came out. (Naturally, <em>very easy</em> to say with 20 years of hindsight of the direction of the hobby...)</p><p></p><p>Why waste time wading through some "tool Kit" rpg when you can play a complete game with much less upfront work?</p><p></p><p>Games with an OGL/SRD are the new "gurps/hero" systems. </p><p></p><p>Except that they are better.</p><p></p><p>IMHO, they are better in that you have access to several complete RPG's that use the same system often done in different genre's.</p><p></p><p>So you can play complete games with no upfront work, and see how a given system is adapted to various settings and genre's.</p><p></p><p>Then for those who are more DiY minded, they can take the OGL/SRD and make the game system their own. And they have plenty of examples to cull from to adapt to their home game.</p><p></p><p>Powered by system "xyZ"... Is not going away anytime soon.</p><p></p><p>And certainly not when the DiY types can take a relatively popular system they already like and fine tune it for their table.</p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaeger, post: 8169679, member: 27996"] GURPS like all of its fellow 'toolkit' rpg's, seems to be phasing out of general use in the hobby. Hexes are one of those things that look really good on paper, but squares have won the war for general play with minis at the table for RPG's. TFT should have went with squares. IMHO, systems like GURPS and HERO have lost out ever since 3e and the OGL/SRD. TFT is the direction SJGames should have gone in when the D&D OGL came out. (Naturally, [I]very easy[/I] to say with 20 years of hindsight of the direction of the hobby...) Why waste time wading through some "tool Kit" rpg when you can play a complete game with much less upfront work? Games with an OGL/SRD are the new "gurps/hero" systems. Except that they are better. IMHO, they are better in that you have access to several complete RPG's that use the same system often done in different genre's. So you can play complete games with no upfront work, and see how a given system is adapted to various settings and genre's. Then for those who are more DiY minded, they can take the OGL/SRD and make the game system their own. And they have plenty of examples to cull from to adapt to their home game. Powered by system "xyZ"... Is not going away anytime soon. And certainly not when the DiY types can take a relatively popular system they already like and fine tune it for their table. . [/QUOTE]
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