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<blockquote data-quote="Aries_Omega" data-source="post: 1600227" data-attributes="member: 15693">Dead GamesI love running Cyberpunk 2020. I still run it and have been tinkering with doing a d20 version and getting the original company....R. Talsorian Games to pick it up...which I don't think they are interested in at all. My version.... which I dubbed &quot;d20 CP 2020&quot; has hit locations and the combat is still deadly and realistic even at higher levels which IMHO made CP 2020 such a great system.I like playing Mechwarrior but never got to run it. I loved Battletech and the idea of RPing the mechwarriors, tech and infantry soldiers that make up a unit was a great idea, especially since at the time I discovered it I was in the Army and introduced it to guys in my platoon.Lastly the White Wolf system. The setting was great and the convpets were inovated at the time but now seem overly cumbersome. I understand the reason why...to discourage &quot;roll play&quot; and encourage &quot;role play&quot;. Why else would you have 4 rolls minimum to resolve combat....an attack roll....a dodge roll....a damage roll and a soak roll. What turned me off is it was getting like Palladium Games or 2E AD&amp;D in the way books sprouted up like weeds. Not that source books were bad but most players were of the camp that you HAD to have everything in print just to play. In case you need info on a rare Vampire clan that only 8 people belong to at any given time. You may have to have them as a NPC or as a PC at any given time.Other then that I don't do many other &quot;dead games&quot; anymore. If I do...I convert it to d20. Converting games is kinda my mutant power. I just can do it...I can't explain really how I do.Aries Omega</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aries_Omega, post: 1600227, member: 15693"] [b]Dead Games[/b] I love running Cyberpunk 2020. I still run it and have been tinkering with doing a d20 version and getting the original company....R. Talsorian Games to pick it up...which I don't think they are interested in at all. My version.... which I dubbed "d20 CP 2020" has hit locations and the combat is still deadly and realistic even at higher levels which IMHO made CP 2020 such a great system. I like playing Mechwarrior but never got to run it. I loved Battletech and the idea of RPing the mechwarriors, tech and infantry soldiers that make up a unit was a great idea, especially since at the time I discovered it I was in the Army and introduced it to guys in my platoon. Lastly the White Wolf system. The setting was great and the convpets were inovated at the time but now seem overly cumbersome. I understand the reason why...to discourage "roll play" and encourage "role play". Why else would you have 4 rolls minimum to resolve combat....an attack roll....a dodge roll....a damage roll and a soak roll. What turned me off is it was getting like Palladium Games or 2E AD&D in the way books sprouted up like weeds. Not that source books were bad but most players were of the camp that you HAD to have everything in print just to play. In case you need info on a rare Vampire clan that only 8 people belong to at any given time. You may have to have them as a NPC or as a PC at any given time. Other then that I don't do many other "dead games" anymore. If I do...I convert it to d20. Converting games is kinda my mutant power. I just can do it...I can't explain really how I do. Aries Omega [/QUOTE]

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