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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7444799" data-attributes="member: 996">Thanks for your honesty!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;Some systems require more adjustment to get a different experience or handle a different genre than others, of course.&nbsp; Games like FUDGE/Fate, Fuzion (or Hero), or GURPS are designed to readily be used in multiple genres or for different purposes.&nbsp; GURPS, for instance, has world books that address a property or genre and go to town with it, you don't even have to do the tweaking yourself, and it's all still the same underlying system.&nbsp;&nbsp; d20 - like BRP, Interlock, d6, and many others from the 80s and 90s - is essentially a 'core system' that can be fleshed out and adapted to build different games, and it leverages the decades that amateurs like ourselves spent kitbashing D&amp;D without benefit of any such considerations in its initial design.&nbsp; D&amp;D, itself, though, as a ruleset has a pretty limited range, and while a lot of us have modded it a whole heck of a lot, and, arguably, you have to tweak it some just get it running, some of what limits that range is pretty problematic...Yep, and that makes up for a multitude of sins.&nbsp; Once you know a system well, once you have kitbashed it from a fantasy game to science fiction game and back again, say, you can prettymuch make it do tricks.&nbsp; You could probably all but write your own system - that's where 'Fantasy Heartbreakers' come from!And, since most of us come to the hobby from D&amp;D, far more often than not, that system that we mastered to that degree was, of course, D&amp;D.&nbsp; So it has a rep for being adapted to many uses that does not actually correspond it's suitability for such adaption.&nbsp; Campbell may have noticed that.&nbsp; ;(</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7444799, member: 996"] Thanks for your honesty! :) Some systems require more adjustment to get a different experience or handle a different genre than others, of course. Games like FUDGE/Fate, Fuzion (or Hero), or GURPS are designed to readily be used in multiple genres or for different purposes. GURPS, for instance, has world books that address a property or genre and go to town with it, you don't even have to do the tweaking yourself, and it's all still the same underlying system. d20 - like BRP, Interlock, d6, and many others from the 80s and 90s - is essentially a 'core system' that can be fleshed out and adapted to build different games, and it leverages the decades that amateurs like ourselves spent kitbashing D&D without benefit of any such considerations in its initial design. D&D, itself, though, as a ruleset has a pretty limited range, and while a lot of us have modded it a whole heck of a lot, and, arguably, you have to tweak it some just get it running, some of what limits that range is pretty problematic... Yep, and that makes up for a multitude of sins. Once you know a system well, once you have kitbashed it from a fantasy game to science fiction game and back again, say, you can prettymuch make it do tricks. You could probably all but write your own system - that's where 'Fantasy Heartbreakers' come from! And, since most of us come to the hobby from D&D, far more often than not, that system that we mastered to that degree was, of course, D&D. So it has a rep for being adapted to many uses that does not actually correspond it's suitability for such adaption. Campbell may have noticed that. ;( [/QUOTE]

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