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August 11, 2003
Role Call 27
A complicated question. I don't really have a "favorite system", but rather a set of favorites for each purpose. I guess this is somewhat an advantage to being a system collector...
For fantasy action/adventure (read as "dungeons"), it's Dungeons and Dragons (3E or 3.5, nothing older please!), but if denied those I could make do with Warhammer Quest (only barely an RPG, but very strong at what it does and nice even without a GM for lazy evenings), Tunnels and Trolls (aged and shakey rules, but fun to play)or even to the just-recently-discovered RuneQuest:Slayers.
For fantasy drama/epic stories, it's Hero Wars/Quest (name depends on the edition... I don't have Hero Quest yet), but I could slip to Ars Magica, pre-HW RuneQuest or even to GURPS or BESM (selecting based on the desired "power level").
For modern/near future action, Feng Shui comes first, and after that d20 Modern likely leads the pack, but Spycraft, GURPS, or Cyberpunk 2020 could fill in in a pinch, as could digging out the old James Bond RPG.
For supers, I would tend toward Blood of Heroes (the Mayfair DC Heroes game de-branded), but the new Marvel Universe Diceless (with patches) or Champions or Godlike would all work.
For goofy comic action, I prefer Teenagers From Outer Space, but I can easily convert to the more failure-based humor of Toon or to various specific products.
So, I think this is an area where a wide base is valuable.
Posted by ghoul at August 11, 2003 11:36 AM
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What kind of 'patches' are you thinking of for Marvel universe diceless? Something out on the net somewhere or stuff you've personally decided it needs?
Just curious, I've been looking over the game and wondered.
Posted by: Doyce at August 14, 2003 12:58 PM
Many folk seem to have had problems with how few Energy points characters have, which make the strategic decisions much trickier... I'd have to play with the game a bit to decide if the system is too stingy with those or not.
And I'd re-stat Cyclops right off... he's weaker than a starting PC as given in the rules!
Posted by: Ghoul at August 14, 2003 05:46 PM
It has been pointed out to me that I left out other alternate superhero systems that I shouldn't have forgotten... Silver Age Sentinels would probably rank high among my alternate systems, as would Mutants and Masterminds. I can't say for sure why those two slipped my mind.
Posted by: Ghoul at August 15, 2003 08:34 AM
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