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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7783969" data-attributes="member: 6873517">It's totally cool to not like a system but &quot;worst evah!!!&quot; seems like hyperbole. I did search and without going into tedious point by point quotes, I think some of them come from a misunderstanding of the system. Admittedly, Momentum and Threat read weirdly, but they work quite well in play. For example, when dealing with a complication, the GM is totally free simply to add Threat. In fact, in my experience both running and playing both Conan and STA that's hands down the easiest thing to do rather than coming up with some immediate complication. If you don't have a good idea, just take some Threat and move on. It's not the Wild Die of Star Wars D6 or botching in the old Storyteller systems in that regard, because there's a very easy default for the GM to take. I found the Wild Die one of the most annoying aspects of D6 games, which did not scale particular well, and botching in Storyteller really messed up the math. I really suspect 2D20 would be a very good match for a spy genre type game. It's got a lot of good fits: Stress mimics the way damage works in scenes, as does Wounds. STA posits little or no character advancement, which I think is a much better fit for, say, Mission Impossible or movie Bond than would a level based system. The characters in that kind of setting don't typically gain new skills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7783969, member: 6873517"] It's totally cool to not like a system but "worst evah!!!" seems like hyperbole. I did search and without going into tedious point by point quotes, I think some of them come from a misunderstanding of the system. Admittedly, Momentum and Threat [I]read[/I] weirdly, but they work quite well in play. For example, when dealing with a complication, the GM is totally free simply to add Threat. In fact, in my experience both running and playing both [I]Conan[/I] and [I]STA[/I] that's hands down the easiest thing to do rather than coming up with some immediate complication. If you don't have a good idea, just take some Threat and move on. It's not the Wild Die of [I]Star Wars D6[/I] or botching in the old Storyteller systems in that regard, because there's a very easy default for the GM to take. I found the Wild Die one of the most annoying aspects of D6 games, which did not scale particular well, and botching in Storyteller really messed up the math. I really suspect 2D20 would be a very good match for a spy genre type game. It's got a lot of good fits: Stress mimics the way damage works in scenes, as does Wounds. STA posits little or no character advancement, which I think is a much better fit for, say, Mission Impossible or movie Bond than would a level based system. The characters in that kind of setting don't typically gain new skills. [/QUOTE]

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