RE: [DL] [OT-ish] Ranting?

["Eddy Webb" <fate@jyhad.net>]

<Nothing wrong with a generic core to a system>

Nothing at all.  I personally like mechanics that have consistancy.

<What is less convincing is a totally generic system like D20 or GURPS
that tries to force all types of game into the same pattern. For a
really successful family of games, I think you need a generic set of
basic rules with specific atmospheric rules that enhance the genre you
are playing>

Totally agree.  The WW Storyteller system is another good example -
players look at new WW games and go "What did they change THIS time?"
instead of "How do I play THIS game?"

<I hope Savage Worlds is like this, rather than another GURPS>

At the risk of turning this into another SW list, that appears to be the
direction of it (a more thematic 'generic' system).

- Eddy