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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8183795" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is equally true of RPGs. I can't use Moldvay Basic to run a game of Napoleonic-era diplomacy. Nor to run a game of street vendors struggling with standover thugs, high taxes and family problems. Nor to run a game of hi-tech spies. If I follow the scenario-building rules in Moldvay Basic I will end up with a &quot;dungeon&quot; that is, from any historical perspective, utterly preposterous; that is replete with traps, treasures and monsters; and that is waiting for a very stereotypical band of &quot;adventurers (fighters, clerics, mages, etc) to enter and loot it.Yet Moldvay Basic manifestly is a RPG.The same point applies to other games. No doubt the world of the Far Future (TM) contains vacc-suit factories: but I can't use Classic Traveller to run a game about vacc-suit manufacturing entrepreneurs. I can's use Marvel Heroic RPG to run a game about competition among vendors of organic fruit juices. Etc.I don't know Battlestar Galactica well enough to comment. Pitch Black, yes. Buck Rogers, no. The Traveller rules for PC build and starship battles won't support it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8183795, member: 42582"] This is equally true of RPGs. I can't use Moldvay Basic to run a game of Napoleonic-era diplomacy. Nor to run a game of street vendors struggling with standover thugs, high taxes and family problems. Nor to run a game of hi-tech spies. If I follow the scenario-building rules in Moldvay Basic I will end up with a "dungeon" that is, from any historical perspective, utterly preposterous; that is replete with traps, treasures and monsters; and that is waiting for a very stereotypical band of "adventurers (fighters, clerics, mages, etc) to enter and loot it. Yet Moldvay Basic manifestly is a RPG. The same point applies to other games. No doubt the world of the Far Future (TM) contains vacc-suit factories: but I can't use Classic Traveller to run a game about vacc-suit manufacturing entrepreneurs. I can's use Marvel Heroic RPG to run a game about competition among vendors of organic fruit juices. Etc. I don't know Battlestar Galactica well enough to comment. Pitch Black, yes. Buck Rogers, no. The Traveller rules for PC build and starship battles won't support it. [/QUOTE]

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