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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 2797831" data-attributes="member: 31454">There's no great mystery to it.The system of a roleplaying game is a means by which players can facilitate and resolve specific conflicts. The conflict is between a protagonist (the PC in question) and an antagonist (either another character in the game or the environment). By facilitating conflict, I mean that the system provides a means of creating conflict (wandering monster tables, teleport mishaps, etc.). By resolving conflict, I mean that the system has a means by which a protagonist can attempt to oppose (and often overcome) the antagonist.Depending on the genre of the game, the system could include rules for the conflict of an old west gunslinger shootout, or ship-to-ship combat in deep space, or sword fights. While a modern action game might include detailed rules for car chases or fist fights, a political intrigue game might ignore such rules and develop a detailed system for playing out rhetorical slugfests.That's really all there is to it. Ideally, the system is designed in such a way that it facilitates the type of conflicts that the players of the game enjoy and allows for their resolution in a way that the players of the game enjoy. And while it might be beneficial to include tips on how to roleplay, this is unnecessary beyond the system's method of resolution (i.e., a system like Exalted which pretty much required cool descriptions of actions in order to successfully resolve conflicts would need some guidance in this department). The ideal system is packaged in such a way that nobody playing at the table need worry about the rules: the rules should take care of themselves, leaving everyone free to concern themselves with the game and whatever story they choose to bring to it.</blockquote>

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