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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9771208" data-attributes="member: 6925338">This strikes me as a sequencing error though. I'm not clear to what extent people really think 'I'd love to play a game about moral judgement and escalation where the characters embody a sense of moral and legal authority', and then look for a game system to fit it. I think instead people see Dogs in the Vineyard and think 'oh that sounds interesting'. Having such games exist is what creates the audience for them. They aren't necessarily scratching an itch anyone already knew they had. They aren't a slightly better way of playing a known kind of campaign that GURPS or Boot Hill would have already serviced to a 'close enough' standard. They are entirely different ways of playing for which GURPS or Boot Hill would be very poor substitutes. If a person has a campaign where the choice of system is just whatever's 'close enough', then I suggest that campaign will be pretty mediocre at best.</blockquote>