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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 2100130" data-attributes="member: 26563">d20 Modern was my best guess based on limited familiarity - I haven't read UA - in d20 modern the three classes are based on a similar model, and that's all I was familiar with.  I defer, here.I hear you - that's where I started the search that led me to Castles & Crusades.  My 10 year old is mildly autistic, and can't handle the full 3E ruleset even though he devours Monster Manuals and plays Baldur's Gate avidly.  Castles & Crusades has such a quick learning curve that he picked it up right away, and so did my 8 year old.  I owe TLG a real debt for designing a game I can play with my kids, because they love the fantasy genre.  We tried 3E, but it was an attention-span disaster.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   Whether a game is rules light or not, though, is somewhat beside the point - as I said in the original post, I don't think this sort of analysis conveys what a game is really about.  General rules-lightness has a qualitative as well as a quantitative effect - Castles & Crusades' faster pace changes the feel of the game (to my mind, into something more exciting and heroic) - and that's the important part.I like the idea of these percentages - they do convey at least a basic idea of the "ghost in the machine" for those familiar with the systems used as a reference point.  I haven't played either feng shui or fusion.  I'd differ slightly on the Castles & Crusades as 90% AD&D and 10% 3E.  There's something else in that mix.Maybe this, breaking out of the system model (and not entirely sensical):40% AD&D as it actually is (was)20% How you remember AD&D through rose-colored glasses10% 3E5% Freakin' easy to prepare adventures5% Fun-to-read rulebooks with high-flown vocabulary and over-dramatic examples10% That weird combo of Sword & Sorcery, Medieval grit, and Jack Vance10% something elseThe "something else" can probably be described using a game system I'm not familiar with.  It's the streamlined skill system model that isn't 3E - bundled skills.  I'm sure other games have done this before C&C.</blockquote>

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