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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5488722" data-attributes="member: 40177">I'd like a gritty setting, where combats are brutal and fast - sort of sword and sorcery, in a conan-like vibe, although it doesn't have to be fantasy.  You can do it just as well in a post-apoc sort of vibe.One where gear is acquired more often than "loot", and it's given piecemeal, bit by bit.  In other words, a game where Players get excited not about getting a +5 sword (which doesn't exist), but in which they get a good pair of boots... or a chainmail sleeve to complete their armour set.A game with loosely-defined areas, but with some strongly-detailed central points.  The original Dark Sun boxed set is kind of what I'm thinking of.  Expansions might add a few new places, or expand upon the detailed area, but they don't fill the map up with so much info that GMs feel constrained in creating their own stuff.no metaplot.  At all.  The game is frozen in one date, and the GMs can take the adventure from there.A world in which the environment plays a factor.  One in which we can envision our characters moving around through the world, even when we're not fighting monsters or exploring dungeons.  I love settings in which I can imagine my character just.... walking.  Whether it's a desert setting, an arctic setting, city-based, or space-based... I just want a setting where significant attention has been given to what it'd be like to live there.A system where we can get through a combat in less than half an hour.  While also being one where there's more than, say, six degrees of seperation between an untrained character and a maxed-out character.  I want a setting where I can't start off with combat skill maxed out.  I want a world in which players have a pretty wide range of character concepts to choose from, while at the same time, the final group makes sense together.  No human fighters rubbing shoulders with half-dragon time mages.  I'd like a game where, even if every character is playing a human soldier, there is something mechanical that differentiates them, and how they play at the table.I want a world that draws inspiration from the real world, and uses historical models to lay a groundwork.  But at the same time, I don't just want a world in which you've taken the vikings and put them on an arctic coast and decided they're going to fight the egyptians.  History out of context is garbage.</blockquote>

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