Ulfgeir
Hero
FASA was very good at creating interesting settings. They sucked at making good rules though. Their rules was needlessly complicated, and their games were popular despite their mechanics.
And I love the setting.
Weekend Nonsense: Favorite Bad RPG
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And I love the setting.
HaroldTheHobbit
Hero
Violence RPG was more of a spoofy social commentary than something that was meant to be played. But me and my at that time colleagues had lots of fun with it back in the day, beer and pretzel style, before hitting the clubs. When you are a career governmental bureaucrat for a living it's good stress relief to play a coke-crazed thug collecting protection money by any means necessary. Not necessarily healthy in the long run, but we are all well-behaved family folks today ;-)
loverdrive
Prophet of the profane (She/Her)
I'm yet to see a SR fan whose opinion on it isn't "Man, this game sucks, but I love it".
Crusadius
Adventurer
RIFTS - the setting was, at the time, awesome as a kitchen sink of everything (robots, vampires, mecha, dragons, etc...). But the system and the built in assumption that balance between Occupational/Racial Character Classes was not needed because.... reasons?... left much to be desired. The refusal of Palladium to update the system was just the icing on the cake of unplayability.
I believe there may have also been some jiggery pokery with the setting in some later supplements that left a bad taste in your mouth.
I believe there may have also been some jiggery pokery with the setting in some later supplements that left a bad taste in your mouth.
I was just being snarky. That doesn't come over as well without emojis I guess.
Shadowrun and Earthdawn both were hot messes of systems but damn they were fun anyway.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
I have heard of people playing it and loving it. Just now. In this thread.
BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Isn’t this forum all about characterizing the most popular things as bad? I thought maybe it was in the ToS.
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Generally speaking, characterizing popular things as bad is very popular. And also bad.
James Gasik
We don't talk about Pun-Pun
Well when your Earthdawn Sky Raider uses Battle Shout on a group of Trolls, reducing their attack step from d8 to d4, which results in you taking several armor defeating hits because their d4's keep exploding, and you can't do anything about it until the duration of your own ability expires, and your attempts to use Avoid Blow just result in you taking more damage due to the 1 Strain when you fail, you might characterize the rules as "bad", no matter how much you (and others) like the game.
As an example of FASA rules design in action. : )
BONUS EXAMPLE FOR TRUE FANS: because I can't see anything wrong with making Acrobatic Strike a Discipline Talent for Air Sailors and letting it substitute for the Melee Weapons Talent...
As an example of FASA rules design in action. : )
BONUS EXAMPLE FOR TRUE FANS: because I can't see anything wrong with making Acrobatic Strike a Discipline Talent for Air Sailors and letting it substitute for the Melee Weapons Talent...
aramis erak
Legend
I liked 1st ed.... but my players preferred CP2020...
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