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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 8426438" data-attributes="member: 8014">Savage Worlds is currently my go-to system as well. I’ve been a fan of generic systems for a long time, and GURPS is also consistently in my top 3. The third spot changes from time-to-time.All generic systems have an underlying approach in my experience, and that means that whilst they can run a broad range of campaigns every one of them will have an underlying flavour from the specific generic rule set you are using. For GURPS that is a high level of real-world verisimilitude. For Savage Worlds it is pulp action, and since that is the type of game I like to play most often it’s a positive for me. If I wanted to run a more dangerous, horror game GURPS would probably be my first pick though you can definitely do it in Savage Worlds with some careful application of optional rules.In addition to its pulp baseline the other great advantage of Savage Worlds in my opinion is that it is super easy to home-brew stuff for it. This is because the sub-systems are only loosely interconnected and you can change an element without it having unexpected and undesired implications in another part of the system; GURPS by comparison is tightly engineered and that means changes can easily have side effects unless you are very careful and have enough system mastery to know when to apply that care.So, my summary of Savage Worlds would be that it has enough crunch and sub-systems to support a wide range of interesting scenes, it has a pulp baseline, and it is very easy to tailor to meet specific aims.Some of my group find it not quite flavourful enough, especially in the powers. But I personally find them fine and trappings add flavour for me.</blockquote>

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