[WW] um... i'm not sure what subject...

["richard spangle" <lost_rich@hotmail.com>]

>From: Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com>
>
>Other Systems
>I have been playing since 1984 and have bought a lot
>of systems over the years. Not all of them get played
>and some get shelved after a single session (and one
>(Underworld) is not played because a player's mother
>watched 'Beauty and the Beast').
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late 70's here. like you, my library looks like a "who's who" of the gaming 
industry. you want dumb, try EXPENDABLES. bad engine. bad writing. preschool 
art (and i should know because my wife is a preschool teacher)...

>I quite liked Alternity but we always seem to go back
>to STOCS or CoC.
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ALTERNITY is great. it allows for reasonable speed of play and high ranking 
characters who can still be killed with a single shot (i especially like the 
quality system <<<ordinary/good/amazing results>>> and how it relates to 
damage type depending on the weapon). and since your "hit points" in the 
game don't go up much over the course, it teaches players that their 
characters are really REALLY mortal.
>

>
>The Ideal system is simple, realistic and flexible.
>Simple: One mechanism. Easily learned. A minimum of
>modifiers.
>Realistic. Sensible results.
>Flexible. I want a system that can go from the gritty
>realism of the trenches of the Great War to a wall
>jumping Matrix setting.
>Oh yes, it does not use cards or counters.
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the problem with the "ideal system" is it cannot be created. every system i 
have ever encountered eventually get's "tweeked" to death. in example:  i'm 
an old STARFLEET BATTLES player. game was good. had several annoying flaws 
for the purpose of game detail. but we lived with it. a stack of years ago a 
company produced a tactical game similiar to SFB based on the BABYLON 5 
universe. they took many of the flaws that SFB had and ironed them out. the 
system ran great save for a few minor problems. these got "tweeked". then 
other things got "tweeked" for "realism of game play". now, years later, the 
system is complex and in some cases annoying.  that's the problem, every 
time designers "tweek" a system it get's more complex and annoying. 3E D&D 
was a nice jump back. simple. fast. easy to learn. but it is slowly being 
"tweeked" to death too.

i am interested in seeing Wild Card too, got me ?Q? up about it so i look 
forward to seeing it. my group has a saying too...
"you bring it, we'll play it..."
that should be true for all gamers. give every system a try and don't be 
critical of the system just from the previews.
IMHO...


...the rich
"what can you tell us about the guy you saw?"
"he was cucasian..."
"cucasian?"
"ya. you know, a white guy. with a mustache, about six foot three."
"awfully big mustache."
-------------------> can you name this movie?


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