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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarbonac" data-source="post: 893692" data-attributes="member: 9129">Games that suck:Villains and Vigilantes -- picked this up used at a gaming shop 15 years ago, plus adventure and villain books.Unplayable. Un-frelling-playable. Character generation goes past ''arbitrary'' into ''Why bother?'' territory.Shadowrun : Picked this up on discount pile at another gaming shop about 10 years ago -- somewhat interesting concept...stupid mechanics.Swordbearer : Just weak  and dull (and also pulled from the discount/bargain pile-- I begin to see a trend building). The worst, in my opinion, however, was SPI's Dragonquest  -- ugh, just ugh. Drek for mechanics, a character generation system where you have to roll dice to determine your race (although ''human'' was the default), screwy ''Birthrights'' that determined whether your character was ''death-aspected'', ''life-aspected'', ''solar-aspected'', ''lunar-aspected'', et cetera,which meant that varying events (such as a birth, a death, the coming of ''high noon'', etc.) occuring in the vicinity of the character would have specific game effects on him.A solar-aspected character would have a bonus (expressed as a negative number) to % die rolls at high noon...I think Apparently, all the characters in the game also used magic of one sort or another.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> The magic system made my head and my stomach hurt.The only thing about the game that was remotely fun  was the ''Grievous Injury Chart'', which had a friendly, jolly tone (''Congratulations! It's a bleeder in your primary arm!''), and that only for the GM.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I've had better role-playing experiences from Monopoly™, The Game Of Life™ or Pop-O-Matic's Trouble™. Even now, I have a red red haze settling across my vision just thinking about that miserable game.And yes, it came from the bargain bin...</blockquote>

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