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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7619151" data-attributes="member: 6786839">Some commenters have raised analogies to summarized information about cars and houses. People generally buy one car at a time, out of many options, and one house at a time, out of several or many options. So is this proposed system also meant to inform purchase choices?A system for comparing TRPGs might be useful for informing choices about registering for convention games. I might prefer a game along these lines: &quot;roll 1d6 if you're in unfavorable situations, 2d6 for average tasks, 3d6 if you're well-trained, well-equipped, or in favorable circumstances.&quot; I might dislike games along these lines: &quot;roll 1d100 for accuracy, applying modifiers for characteristics, skill ranks, equipment category, and other factors; then roll 3d6 for power, also with modifiers; compare your Accuracy outcomes to the target or task's Elusive rating (also rolled on d100) and your Power outcome to the target or task's Resistance rating (a fixed number from 0 to 25). If I can sign up for either the 10AM Saturday game of Hackmaster, or the 10AM Saturday game of Doctor Who, then I might enjoy knowing which game has more moving parts in its action resolution system.Yes, metrics should have actual numbers. Sometimes, failing hard numbers, rankings are useful. I could not tell you the numerical Scoville ratings of the hot, medium, mild and supernova salsas at my local tacqueria; but I can accurately rank them from most to least spicy. (That ranking isn't the alphabetical order I used, when listing the categories, just now.)Metics, on another hand, were foreigners living in an ancient Greek city who had some of the privileges of citizenship.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 7619151, member: 6786839"] Some commenters have raised analogies to summarized information about cars and houses. People generally buy one car at a time, out of many options, and one house at a time, out of several or many options. So is this proposed system also meant to inform purchase choices? A system for comparing TRPGs might be useful for informing choices about registering for convention games. I might prefer a game along these lines: "roll 1d6 if you're in unfavorable situations, 2d6 for average tasks, 3d6 if you're well-trained, well-equipped, or in favorable circumstances." I might dislike games along these lines: "roll 1d100 for accuracy, applying modifiers for characteristics, skill ranks, equipment category, and other factors; then roll 3d6 for power, also with modifiers; compare your Accuracy outcomes to the target or task's Elusive rating (also rolled on d100) and your Power outcome to the target or task's Resistance rating (a fixed number from 0 to 25). If I can sign up for either the 10AM Saturday game of Hackmaster, or the 10AM Saturday game of Doctor Who, then I might enjoy knowing which game has more moving parts in its action resolution system. Yes, metrics should have actual numbers. Sometimes, failing hard numbers, rankings are useful. I could not tell you the numerical Scoville ratings of the hot, medium, mild and supernova salsas at my local tacqueria; but I can accurately rank them from most to least spicy. (That ranking isn't the alphabetical order I used, when listing the categories, just now.) Metics, on another hand, were foreigners living in an ancient Greek city who had some of the privileges of citizenship. [/QUOTE]

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