Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Squizzle" data-source="post: 4887743" data-attributes="member: 76486">Dread, with its Jenga-based resolution system and its &quot;13 questions&quot; character creation. I'm not sure you could convince me there's a better, more atmospheric horror mechanic than the Jenga tower Dread uses.It's not the fresh new darling anymore, but Dogs in the Vineyard continues to impress me. I realised recently that it's probably the best system available for running a thematically-accurate game set in Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation.I have yet to be anything but stunned with any system based on FATE3.Wild Talents impressed me, but Truth &amp; Justice is still my favorite superhero system. It (T&amp;J) is pitch-perfect at simulating superhero comics from the mid-1960s and after.And since I mentioned the One-Roll Engine with Wild Talents, I should bring up Reign. ORE is easily the best traditional dice pool system I've had for face-to-face play, since it can encode a ton of fast-to-read information into a single roll. Reign goes above and beyond the standard ORE mechanic by adapting it to abstracted group-level actions (e.g., war, corporate action, chorus line dance-offs), but still allowing the PCs to significantly affect the outcomes of these larger-scale actions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Squizzle, post: 4887743, member: 76486"] [I]Dread[/I], with its Jenga-based resolution system and its "13 questions" character creation. I'm not sure you could convince me there's a better, more atmospheric horror mechanic than the Jenga tower [I]Dread [/I]uses. It's not the fresh new darling anymore, but [I]Dogs in the Vineyard[/I] continues to impress me. I realised recently that it's probably the best system available for running a thematically-accurate game set in [I]Star Trek[/I] or [I]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/I]. I have yet to be anything but stunned with any system based on FATE3. [I]Wild Talents[/I] impressed me, but [I]Truth & Justice[/I] is still my favorite superhero system. It (T&J) is pitch-perfect at simulating superhero comics from the mid-1960s and after. And since I mentioned the One-Roll Engine with [I]Wild Talents[/I], I should bring up [I]Reign[/I]. ORE is easily the best traditional dice pool system I've had for face-to-face play, since it can encode a ton of fast-to-read information into a single roll. [I]Reign [/I]goes above and beyond the standard ORE mechanic by adapting it to abstracted group-level actions (e.g., war, corporate action, chorus line dance-offs), but still allowing the PCs to significantly affect the outcomes of these larger-scale actions. [/QUOTE]

Verification