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Dead Reign vs Systems Failure vs Beyond the Supernatural

Started by Scaredy Squirrel, July 21, 2009, 04:56:49 PM

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Tetsubo

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July 26, 2009, 10:44:29 PM
Quote from: jgants;315365I thought Dead Reign was the best thing put out by Palladium in years - the cleanest version of their rules ever produced.  System Failure is an interesting game, but more light-hearted.

I'm not really a fan of Beyond the Supernatural, the first edition was perhaps Palladium's least interesting game (it lacked the unique imagination of their other games).  And the second edition had an improved system from first edition (though the first edition was fine), but is somewhat half finished (with many monsters and the entire magic system absent).

KS changed the rules!?! The world must be about to end...

How did it get cleaned up?

KrakaJak

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July 27, 2009, 01:18:03 AM
Quote from: Tetsubo;316123KS changed the rules!?! The world must be about to end...

How did it get cleaned up?
He did a pretty serious overhaul on them in Robotech: Shadow Chronicles. The basics are still the same (Same stats, Combat rolls are still 5+ and you hit, skills are percentile). However they're re-written and much easier to understand. countless tweaks were made to the system to improve it, here's a few I can remember:

* an optional simple version of character creation.

* Characters learn new skills as they increase in levels.

* characters have OCC's and MO's, MO's are a class within a class, so you can have much more variety between characters of the same OCC.
-Jak
 
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RPGPundit

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July 27, 2009, 03:46:16 AM
Really, its all streamlining. None of what you mentioned there is new. Additional skills has been around since at least Robotech 1e; and MOS skills have been around since the same period (the original Southern Cross handbook had them). The simple chargen is new, but it doesn't actually change anything rules-wise.

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