Worst RPG System You Ever Palyed?

[philreed]

Space Opera joins Chivalry & Sorcery as the only games where I spent an entire gaming session creating a character, only to never play the game because we were so burnt out on character generation that we didn't want to try the game.

Sounds like my experience with Dangerous Journeys.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Of course, the best way to continue this thread (were there one, perhaps the least bad way), would be to only state your own opinion and reasons, and then let it be. Don't respond to other peoples' posts or feel like you need to defend your favorite One True Roleplaying Game (Earthdawn for me) against people who malign it because it's not their favorite One True Roleplaying Game, but obviously should be, because, you know, it's YOUR favorite OTRG, and if other people question that, they question the whole of your existence, and your validity as a human being is at stake, but most importantly, you've got some street cred you're trying to maintain and if anyone is allowed to disagree with what the OTRG is, then you're going to look the fool.

Errr...has anyone noticed how these threads resemble threads on religion and politics?

 

[Psion]

Errr...has anyone noticed how these threads resemble threads on religion and politics?

I think I've made the metaphor "Gaming Holy Wars" at a few junctures.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Yup... anytime a thread like this comes up, you may as well bring the hot dogs and marshmallows, cuz a flame war is going to break out. Guaranteed.

I wish I'd had the experiences many of the posters have had with all the games listed. I've never even heard of most of them. 90% of my gaming experience has been with AD&D then 3.x. The only significant departure into any other system was Mayfair's DC Heroes. I never GM'd it, but played many, many hours in it. The worst part of that was the length of time it took to resolve combat, but I loved playing it.

So overall, except for FASA's Star Trek game (which I mentioned earlier in the thread), I've had good experiences with the various games I've played. FASA's ST:RPG was, in my opinion, awful. I'd welcome the chance to play in some of the aforementioned terrible games, just to share in the badness.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Dinkeldog, you got it right. I never meant to rile up the RM fans when I stated my dislike for the system. Just because I didn't like it doesn't mean that the system has somehow gotten worse, or that my dissenting vote is going to pull away tons of potential buyers. There has been a lot of debate about this system being bad or not being bad. The good of a system is totally subjective. It's all in the eye of the beholder, and there's little to no point in getting into a heated debate about it.

Kane

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

It's good to see that you've learned an important lesson here -- namely, the importance of understanding that your subjective experiences do not establish universal facts.

Quoted for being the funniest thing said in this, or probably any other, thread.

 

[radferth]

Well this is just painfully obvious I have to say Palladium.

I must second that one. I played in a long-running Paladium Fantasy game. The campaign was quite enjoyable, but the system was just odd. Lots of rules that seemed there just to make it different from D&D. Lots of contradictory rules. Ability scores that have virtually no effect on the game except for qualifying for classes (unless they were quite high). Absolutely no attempt to balance the races even a little. I just ran my little symbologist (or whatever I was called) and ignored whatever else was happening with the other characters. The GM (a good one) had to spend a lot of time making rules interpretations and then revising them a couple of sessions later when someone would discover a loophole. Like I said, the campaign was fun, but I think it would have been even more fun if we just decided what happened off the top of our heads, rather than using the rules we were.

 

[Akrasia]

Yeah, but it shows a consistent theme of the sorts of people I might run into ....

Ummm ... no. The sample size of 'vocal posters' concerning anything on any message board is far too small to make *any* legitimate generalizations about the kinds of people who like the product in question.

In short, your methodology is deeply flawed.

 

[Akrasia]

Quoted for being the funniest thing said in this, or probably any other, thread.

While I always aim to entertain, I don't understand how what I stated could possibly qualify as 'funny'.

It is strange that some people find stating basic truths 'funny'. :\

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

It is strange that some people find stating basic truths 'funny'. :\

It's all in the juxtaposition.