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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 5190030" data-attributes="member: 23240">It's obvious that some problems are caused by players and GMs and may only be solved by a honest discussion out of game. But there are also real system problems. A problematic part of a system does not have to break and crash a game - it is bad enough if it forces the GM (one of the "good ones") to waste his time on working around it.I don't require any system to be fully universal. I don't believe that any good universal system may exist. I require a system to support the genre and style of my game. I expect it to have rules for things that are important in this genre, rules that make it fun to play. I expect the rules to encourage in genre behavior and discourage out of genre one. I expect the rules not to get in the way of fun - I don't want to need to ignore or change them on the fly.I know not every game is for me. If it's honest about what it does and what it does not, it's great - I just won't buy it. The problem is when the text of the book tells me one thing, and the rules do something else. Such incoherence is the main source of issues.Nobody reasonable rants about D&D being a bad horror or CoC being a bad superhero game. The problem arises when a game describes itself as a horror, but its rules create superheroes, or when it is presented as a heroic fantasy, but works as modern military.It's a GMs fault if he uses a screwdriver to drive in nails. It is a game's fault if it sells him a screwdriver with "hammer" on the box. Or when it sells a hammer that's hard to use because it's to heavy, to light or incorrectly balanced.</blockquote>

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