What do you want from your Fantasy Roleplaying Game

[Dannyalcatraz]

I voted 3.5Ed.

The truth is that my swords & sorcery FRPG of choice- namely, in campaigns that I run- is 3.5Ed borrowing liberally from AU/AE, Midnight 2Ed, and other D20 derived FRPGs.

And also, it narrowly edges out Fantasy HERO- IOW, using HERO to run a fantasy campaign. (Its way fun, personally, designing spells from the ground up. Its also challenging to emulate the various spellcasting archetypes found in legend and even other systems- such as the traditional D&D Vancian spellcasting- in HERO's system.) Similarly, running a fantasy game in M&M (as I know some ENWorlders do) should be a blast as well.

In some cases, fantasy games dedicated to a particular setting or style play better than the same setting/style ported into D&D or even HERO. I'd rather play Deadlands or CoC in their original systems than in ports to other systems- they're simply intrinsically equipped to handle certain situations that crop up in the settings better than games for which new rules must be kludged together to handle.

 

[Furry_Thing]

GURPS.

Say what you will, I've never felt like I couldn't do something I wanted to do with that system.

 

[RFisher]

@RFisher - what qualities would the perfect FRPG need?

I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with an answer, but I’m drawing a blank. I’ll try to let it stew a day or two and see if I come up with anything.

 

[Korgoth]

I can't respond to this foolish poll. My FRPG of choice is OD&D.

 

[mjukglass]

Fun.

Seconded. With the notion that fun can be different things.